09/05/2024
I have been through 69 birthdays, some of which I remember, some which I don’t.
I don’t know what it is about this coming birthday, my 70th, that has such a special meaning. It brings some deep humbling feelings I never experienced before. It feels important.
I am really starting to feel that “a day more is a day less”
During the last years, with all these close calls, I started to “look at life from all sides” and little things adquired a bigger meaning.
I have LOVED, PRAYED, WORKED and PLAYED with all my heart… and I have been blessed in ways I never imagine to be possible. I am living one day at a time, each day as if it was the last day of my life, but making plans to live “forever”.
As I grew older, I started feeling the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, I found the courage to change the things I could, and grew the wisdom of knowing the difference.
Thanks to my wife Ivette, my kids Tatito and Ivecita and to all my friends and relatives for making me a very happy man.
I don’t feel I am missing anything… I have been stupid and I have been wise; I have cried and I have laugh; I worked hard and played harder; I have loved and been loved. I have prayed and talked to HIM since the moment I learned as a child that HE was listening.
As I welcome this last stage of my life I want it to be my goal to make others and myself happy.
Suffering and pain are guaranteed, we need to work for happiness; and I am trying to do so.
