Bryan’s Ramblings

The past year or so has afforded me quite a few opportunities to contemplate and think about an assortment of deeply psychological topics about my life or life in general. These moments are often catalyzed by discussion with friends, good books and movies, or other thought provoking events. My favorite times are when I can look back on each day of the week and find one of these moments in each of the previous days. This has been one of those weeks.

Early in the week I was able to reflect on relationships, religion and politics. As if that weren’t enough, I went on to ponder ambition, communication and wellness. To top it all off I ended the week by analyzing the importance of family, race, happiness and love. That is one heck of a week. The only thing lacking was the consideration of sleep.

I suppose it all started on the weekend of my birthday and continued on from there. Birthdays inherently force one to think about the past, the present, and the future. Mine was no different this year. I took advantage of the fact that I got to be surrounded by so many of the people that I most care about.

The funny thing about birthdays is that, in a sense, in only a single day, age gets incremented by one whole year. Of course, the reality is that a person uses the entire year for growth and the label is only applied on that one day. I guess it’s that old battle of age vs. experience.

What I’m trying to say is that I owe who I am today to all the people who have influenced me and helped me grow over the past year. This includes everybody who has had some impact on my life since November 6, 2004. I got to spend November 6, 2005 and the rest of this past week with all of the important ones who are still in my life and who continue to help me learn and grow every day. This is my ultimate thank you note to those people, who are really the only people who would probably bother to read this anyway.