The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy.
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts....
As we advance in years we really grow happier, if we live intelligently....
To say that youth is happier than maturity is like saying
that the view from the bottom of the tower is better than the view from
the top. As we ascend, the range of our view widens immensely;
the horizon is pushed farther away. Finally as we reach the summit
it is as if we had the world at our feet.
--William Lyon Phelps
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR BROTHER-IN-LAW!
2 comments:
Loved the poem...so Kim you are getting a better view from where you are now, but we are not far down the trail from you. It's nice that we age together. I have observed that you are still handsome on the outside, but becoming more so on the inside. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Kim. It is amazing how we all have grown up. I still remember you as the hot missionary with the salt and pepper hair (mostly pepper) and as the obnoxious new brother-in-law who was always asking his annoyable teenage sister-in-law to make him a peanut butter sandwich. Always teasing, weren't you? I still think you're hot, even without the pepper, but not quite as obnoxious. ;) My lovely sister was very blessed to find you and to have you in her life all these years. As we all are.
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