the 30th one

(This is Trev. I don't write our blog posts or do the photo editing - that's all Torrey, but I wanted to bloggerize/twitterize in our travel blog for once, meaning write my opinion (not just a trip or event).
Source: I received a bunch of Facebook happy birthday messages and I was touched.)


First off, I want to thank people for the birthday wishes. I don't ever remember receiving so many of them!

Second off, my wife, Torrey, who threw me a nice birthday, is now off to visit San Diego for a week.

Not many of you know the thinking side of me... I repress it most of the time (thinking is dangerous), but I'm a theologian & philosopher at heart. If you were a part of my mass emails when I was in college, then you know that side... if memory serves. So, I was back at:

I've been consciously and sub-consciously reflecting about this whole birthday, turning 30. 

Hitting a decade marker is important. They say that 30 is the new 20... yadda yadda. I think that mindset is right - kids might think 30 is old, but when you turn 30, you feel young and old at the same time. 

--- You are young, because you aren't retired or feeling the effects of old age. 

--- You are old, because you aren't a kid anymore and you definitely aren't an energetic college student anymore.

I'm an introvert, so it's my habit to be alone and secluded. I tend to push the past behind me and search for a fresh future. Torrey and I moved to Washington D.C. (the cushy part of the East Coast) and left our California lives behind us. Now, we are moving back to California, but hours away from San Diego. So, we're still venturing into new territory (trailblazing). Still exploring!

I tend to push the past behind me, because it's already there. But I always think about it: the good and the bad. You all cross my mind, mostly good (wink). I regret a lot, but I don't dwell on it and I give it up. We don't talk anymore, but we'll always have what we had back then and it was good.

Always know that I think highly of you all and I wish the best for you and your future.

Whether it's marriage, babies, iPad v.2, dessert, or jobs; Go strongly into the fog ahead... head towards the bright part :-)

Love,

-Trev

p.s. If any of you watch the TV show, Fringe, then you might get this: There are two worlds that are almost identical. Chance and choices made them either slightly different or radically different. If your life was the Fringe TV show, what would your alternate life be? One choice that sent you off in a different direction. In retrospect.