Each day I am reminded by statements made by two of my uncles, both of them are my father’s younger brothers. The first was made by the younger who asked me one day why was I going to law school. My response was that as I was getting older I thought I ought to have a grown-up career in case I grow up one day. My uncle’s response was that he had decided to never grow up. He meant that, and until the day he died he tried to find fun in all that he did and not take himself, or life, to seriously.
My other uncle and I were talking one day and I commented on some new project he was involved in, something just a little silly, but fun. Without hesitation, he looked me in the eye and said, "it’s never to late to have a happy childhood."
With those two statements in mind I have made a conscious effort to live my life. Recently my son-in-law reminded my five year old grandson that although I don’t always act like an adult, I am an adult and my grandson is to listen to me and obey me when go places together.
I would like to pretend that I don’t know what my son-in-law is talking about but it wouldn’t work. Just yesterday I tried out my latest toy. It’s a motorized soft foam dart gun. It holds 20 darts and shoots them all the way across our living room. That’s all the further I’ve tried shooting them so far. It actually comes as a 2 gun set, what fun is to just have one gun when you can have 2 and shoot them at each other. After seeing me shoot our youngest daughter last night my wife suggested that we go visit our grandchildren this week and open fire with the darts when they open their door.