For some reason, today I was thinking about the dates of several events from my past, and I suddenly noticed something that I never noticed before. I don’t know why this is, but for some reason, important things have a tendency to happen to me during the month of May. (OK, I do know why it is: it’s a coincidence. But that’s not as much fun.)
- In May 1965, I was born. It’s hard to top that one, as far as personal significance is concerned.
- In May 1970, I moved with my family to South Carolina, a transition that marks the beginning of my conscious memory and profoundly affected the rest of my life.
- In May 1977, Star Wars was released. Anyone who was around at the time will understand why I count that date as an important one.
- In May 1984, I met a girl named Lynn while working at Carowinds.
- In May 1990, I reported for my first-ever day of work at IBM.
- In May 1992, Lynn and I officially became landowners, closing on five acres of land in Chatham County.
- In May 1997, Lynn and I reached the decision to have a child.
There are exceptions, of course: plenty of Mays in which nothing of note happened, and plenty of important things that have happened to me in months other than May. Still, though, it seems to me that a disproportionate number of my life’s most important events and transitions have taken place during May: events whose repercussions continue to reverberate right up to the present. (I’m not even counting my three graduations, because that would seem like cheating.)
Now that I’ve discovered this, I’m not sure what to do about it. Other than be very, very careful during May.
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I suggest, in particular, you avoid the Ides of May
Interesting. It seems to me that the month of July might run a strong second since you and Lynn married in July and Laura was born in July.
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