Another birthday is looming and I find myself reflecting back over my life. As many of you who know me, I always get quite and very stoic around my birthday. This year I felt that I should break from this habit and try to share a bit of what goes on in my head during this times. Usually, I think about friendship, family and how relationship have worked out through the years. Some quite happily and others ending very sadly. I also think about things I’ve said like “Now that I am 42… I must have the answers to Life, the Universe and Everything.” (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). Well, something I have come to understand is so many of life's old saying are so very true.

"Walk a mile in another man’s shoes." author unknown

How very true this statement is. I feel that we are all too quick to judge people solely based upon our own personal experiences. It never dawns on us that what we see as the truth is only true from our own perspective. Change places with the other person and change your reality. Some may argue that, “The Truth is the Truth, regardless of your opinion.” To those of you I offer this gift for my birthday;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
By, Robert Frost