A friend and I went to see the Dixie Chicks in concert last
Friday night. It was fun. They did a lot of my favorite songs. I love their
music. The concert was at the Usana Amphitheater. I had never been there
before. I liked the outdoor setting. We had seats, but the lawn seating was
pretty far back. The tickets would have had to be really cheap for me to want
to sit back there. And it’s a pain in
the butt to get in and out of. On the way back home we stopped at a gas station
for a drink and then turned up the music and sang at the top of our lungs, partly
to keep us awake and partly because it was fun.
As I was driving to work this morning the announcer on the
radio said the date and it seemed really familiar to me for some reason. Then I
realized that I got married 20 years ago today. I was divorced 5 years later,
but this was the big day. Looking back I can’t believe how different my life
has been from what I had planned. Not different in a bad way, because I am
generally happy. It’s just I was young
and back then I thought that I had to get married and have kids and a house and
all that stuff.
There are only a few things in my life that I truly regret,
so I don’t think getting married was one of them, but I can’t say it was a good
thing. It’s hard to remember anything happy about those five years of my life
even though there must have been some good times. Maybe I should say I rarely
have reasons to remember those times (good or bad) because they have nothing to
do with my life today, except for maybe being a kind of crossroads to the path
I did go down. Regardless, I am happy
with where I did end up and have been blessed in so many ways.
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