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It's three in the morning and once again I find myself not yearning for my bed. I have to be at work in two hours for another 12 hour day. I know that this day will be almost too long to bear.
For the last two weeks I have been staying up late almost every night playing. Playing like I'm 13 again. The only problem with that is that I am 40. But I can't stop. So what do I do?
Most people like my wife tell me to grow up. I need to start acting my age as soon as possible. She tells me that I'm going through a mid-life crisis.
Are you kidding me? A mid-life crisis I thought 40 year old men were supposed to go out and buy Harleys, fly to Vegas and max out my credit cards, jump out of airplanes, and things of that nature. What is it that I'm doing so badly? I'm staying up late playing my kids Xbox Kinect.
I work 80 hours per week most weeks. When I get home from work if I'm lucky enough I get to see my kids for a few minutes before they go to bed. After that I go into the kitchen and warm up a dinner that has been cold for hours, talk to my wife, and go to bed. Then I get the privilege of waking up at 5 in the morning, usually skipping breakfast, kissing my kids foreheads while they are still asleep and running off to work.
At what point did I forget how to have fun in life. When did I trade joy for work, fun for overtime, and my time for my boss's time? I used to be able to have fun in life. I used to enjoy my weekends and coming home to my kids at night.
On November 4th my wife made a spontaneous decision and bought an xbox kinect. It was actually meant to be a surprise for my kids. But what it has become is so much more. I began coming home from work earlier and earlier just so I could play with them. I don't miss anything anymore. Most of all I don't miss my job.
What is it that we all lose sight of along the way and why is it so easy to lose? I honestly don't know. I wish I did though. The Xbox Kinect has changed me forever. It brought out the kid in me that I have been longing for, for the past 25 years. All of us wish that we could be as worry free as we were when we were children. Well we can be. The only thing that is stopping us is ourselves. Stop living in fear of our own lives and start enjoying them. All too soon my kids will be grown up and gone. I don't want to look back and regret not being. I don't want to look back I wish I had more time. Right now I have all the time in the world. I'm loving every minute of it.
