Enjoy What You Have, Rather Than Wish For What You Don't

I was an exuberant, energized, excited nine year old boy. Okay, let’s face it, I was a wild, hardheaded, and spastic child.  Only being in 4^th grade, I really didn’t know much about...you know...the “talk”, the birds and the bees, you understand?  After my parents divorced, when I was three, and my dad remarried when I was seven, I didn’t think about my life with siblings besides my older sister.  I would’ve just assumed living alone with my dad until I graduated, but that was unrealistic.  It wasn’t until my dad talked to me about having another brother and sister, that I started thinking about the rest of my life.  He told me “Son, what do you think about having another sister?” I went ballistic.  What? Another sister?  I want a baseball playing, guitar strumming, B.O. smelling brother!  I was young, stupid, and unaware of what was about to take place in my life.  On October 10, 2003, my baby sister Alexa was born.  My first sight of her was at my house two days later.  It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

You may have something planned to obtain or want something you don’t have, but in the end, you will receive what you deserve or need.  I wanted my brother.  The countless games of catch, the shared burps, the talking of girls, that’s what I wished for, but in the end, I got what I needed.  A received a sister.  A girl I need to protect, a child I should steer away from boys, and a baby I will live with the rest of my life.  I love you Alexa.