by Genevieve Georget

Created on: October 16, 2008

Happy birthday to you...

You're ten years old today! It's a good thing too because you drove our mother crazy in anticipation of finally reaching those infamous "double digits"! As you turn ten and I turn thirty, I wish that I had some really great words of wisdom for you. As it turns out though, I seem to be learning just as much now as I did when I was your age, sometimes it's even the same lessons over and over again (no, we don't appear to grow out of our stubbornness just yet!). I'm finding that advice, much like happiness, is something that we seem to reflect on in retrospect. At some point in time, we look back and say to ourselves "yeah, that was worth writing down" but, with youth comes the inability to see that life will and does go on, whether we make the same mistakes or not.

About five or six years from now, your going to find yourself curled up in a ball on your bed, crying your eyes out because you've had your heart broken for the very first time. You'll soon come to learn that you are a person that loves so deeply with every fiber of your being. This means that you also grieve, hurt and feel that loss with the same degree of passion. While you're curled up in your moment of misery, Mom is going to reassure you that, one of these days, you're going to meet someone that will more than make up for all the love that you put out into the world that never seemed to come back. Though it will seem like little consolation at the time, believe her because she is right. Paul McCartney's words will follow you through more tears than you ever thought possible..."in the end, the love that we take is equal to the love that we make".

As I say this though, I want you to know that dealing with men in the earlier part of your life will come as the most unique example of trial and error that you'll ever experience. I'll be the first to admit that men are still a complete mystery to me but one thing that I do know is that for all of their differences, men bring so much feeling into life. They are handsome and funny and protective. They smell good, they have the most adorable smiles on their faces when they are happy to see you and they will, with utmost certainty, flip your world upside down!

Two men in particular though, will make your heart break so much that you'll feel like it might never beat again. While you endure the agony of humanity's cruelest test of patience, to have loved and lost, you will find comfort in knowing that you are, indeed, still breathing.

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