As You Get Older You

Field Of Dreams Is The Only Movie - And I Saw It In The Theater - On An Afternoon When I Was On Location Somewhere, And There Were Like 12 People In The Theater. I Was Just So Devastated; I Couldn't Get Out Of My Seat. And I Sat And Watched It A Second Time.

It Turns Out Most Of The Conclusions That I've Come To In Life Have Equally Valid Contradictions. I Think It's True You Need To Make A Plan, Set A Goal And Stick To It, But I Would Also Advise: Don't Keep Your Eyes So Fixed On Your Goal That You Miss What Sneaks Up To Surprise You, Because Magic Will Come From Unexpected Places.

When People Talk About Wanting To Have Children Someday, What They Really Mean Is That They Want Babies. Nobody Wants An Angry Adolescent. Nobody Wants An Obnoxious Seven-year-old Trying To Wear Out Dirty Words They Just Learned In School That Day. What They Really Want Is Cute, Adorable Babies Who Love You And Need You. The Bad Stuff Is Just The Price You Agree To Pay For Having The Good Stuff.

When You Get Busy, The Priorities Change. In Your Twenties, You Hang Out With Who You Were In School With. Then You Grow Up And You Hang Out With The People You're Playing Ball With, Things You Like Doing With. When You Get Married, It Changes A Bit And You Lose Some Friends, Or You Gain Other Friends. You Gain Couple-y Friends. It Changes Again When You Have Children, And Then When Your Children Are The Focus Of Your Life.

It's Not Like Some Movies Where You're Following A Bunch Of Different Stories You Can Cut Around. There Was Nowhere To Cut To. It's These Guys. We're Not Cutting Back To Anybody Else