Reply #3: No one can predict how a life might go... [View All]

I've got a twelve year old and a nine year old, and it beggars my mind trying to think of how life will turn out for the two of them. Who knows how many of my old man's traits they're going to end up with. Or mine. Or their mom's. We're all wild children, in a way. She has custody, and I don't envy her the problems I see coming down the pike. Our oldest is WAY smart andd already trying to figure out how to wiggle out of her control.

The funny thing about DU is that I'm willing to bet that at least one or two people from my widely varied past are here somewhere. Either from my very early years as a hippie's kid in California, as a oddball bookworm kid on a small ranch in Oregon, a metalhead party animal here in Washington State, or as a footloose vagabond in California.

I don't even know why I have that feeling, but I do. And sometimes the feeling is so strong it freaks me out.

Strange, isn't it?