Gordon S Rennie, your friendly neighbourhood Producer here at the keyboard as we close out the second week of March. Come on Spring!
This Sunday, March 16th I turn 35. Now age and birthdays don’t hold much for me, as I subscribe to the “you’re only as old as you feel” theory. I do sometimes stop and take a look back when I reach a age marker like a 35 or 30 more so than 33. I do get a puzzled look on my face and think “OK, where did the time go?”.
Remember in school when you’d stare at the clock and realize the actual length of time and even how much longer it felt, or maybe that was just me. I have been in radio, my career, for 12 years…it feels like I just finished College sometimes. I am fortunate to say I have been working with Mike Cooper for 7 years now and I can still remember my first week working “mornings” as it’s hard not to forget. It was second week of September, 2001. That week kind of stays with everyone I think.
I also think back to when I was a kid, a time when my t-shirts used to hang straight down and I could run 20 feet without stopping 3 times. My buddies and I would talk about the Year 2000 and we’d be 27 and we’d say “wow what would we be doing then”. Now it’s 2008 and the time seems to be going faster, or maybe I am in a section of my life where I don’t want it to zoom by.
I don’t have kids, but my brothers did and I can understand how much faster time seems to pass, as you watch the little ones go from a little collection of arms and legs to crawling to walking to taking the car to getting married to their first child to your retirement. Well maybe not that fast but it sure seems like it.
This Sunday, I will raise a glass to 35 years and counting as I am reminded of the lyrics of Country singer Tim McGraw…
I think I’ll take a moment, celebrate my age
The ending of an era and the turning of a page
Now it’s time to focus in on where I go from here
Lord have mercy on my next thirty years
Hey my next thirty years I’m gonna have some fun
Try to forget about all the crazy things I’ve done
Maybe now I’ve conquered all my adolescent fears
And I’ll do it better in my next thirty years
My next thirty years I’m gonna settle all the scores
Cry a little less, laugh a little more
Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear
Figure out just what I’m doing here
In my next thirty years
Oh my next thirty years, I’m gonna watch my weight
Eat a few more salads and not stay up so late
Drink a little lemonade and not so many beers
Maybe I’ll remember in my next thirty years
My next thirty years will be the best years of my life
Raise a little family and hang out with my wife
Spend precious moments with the ones that I hold dear
Make up for lost time here, In my next thirty years.
