Perfection

So I'm still wondering. Wondering about the economy, who's going to be president, and life in general. And not to be all philosophical but for me and my family, I think we'll be ok.

You have to look at it a certain way, just like anything else. We live in a house we never imagined we would ever live in... Yeah, it's probably worth less than when we bought it. We drive newish cars. My first car was 2 years my senior. None of the tires were the same, the transmission couldn't figure out what gear it wanted to be in, and it replaced a Dodge D50 pickup, which I wrecked (before I got my license... hence not really my first "official car) and broke my jaw. On just those two items we're ahead.

I grew up in a less than 1000 sq ft house. That only had 1 bathroom. My father's house was even smaller, a 2 bedroom 800 sq ft house, that at one time housed 5 kids and 2 adults. Three girls got one bedroom, the adults got the other, and me and my brother slept in the living room. I thought I was in high cotton, nobody ever had a TV in their room. But I did, if only I knew. My wife also comes from humble beginnings. She says her brother used to sleep in a glorified closet.

And when my father moved to Mississippi, I can remember when we were going to "upgrade" to a doublewide trailer. Literally we cut a hole in the side of one trailer, and another hole in the other one, and tried to match them up. There was winches and so forth involved. One come-along broke and almost squished me and my father. The whole back end of the trailer swung down, and I almost became an orphan and/or dead myself. Hard living I'd say. And that wasn't the only time something like this has happened.

When I look at that compared to what I have today. I got it pretty good. In fact, minus the whole 401k deal, I got it really damn good. Now that's not to say everything is hunky dory, because obviously it's not. But when you can take a picture like this and just laugh, I think it is going to be somewhat ok. Know what I mean?