I find it a privilege to be among the breathing <br />To walk among the inhalers and exhalers of these latter days <br />And having gone to sleep and woken up 9490 mornings in a row <br />I look forward to the heaven and hell that waits for me at my front door <br />And that is life to me-taking the good and the bad <br />while hoping for mostly good <br /> <br />I live to be complimented and to be cursed out <br />I live to answer the phone when my momma calls and hang up on Sprint, Sallie mae, and Direct Tv <br />I live to eat a avocado bacon cheeseburger with a large fries and a orange soda, and take a nap immediately <br /> knowing that guilt and depression may be waiting for me when I wake up <br />I live to be told by my wife that I am the most handsome man she knows, <br />and half an hour later to be told that I look like a fat grizzly bear <br />That’s is life to me-both sides of the coin <br /> <br />I live to be told by my father that I lived the life of a rich white boy as I reminisce about the days five of us lived in a hotel room <br />I live for the joy of going to church and knowing I memorized the order of the first twenty books of the bible and for the shame of knowing I can recite all three verses of Mo Money, Mo problems by Biggie <br />I live to remember watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles <br />and the LA Riots on the same television on the same day <br /> <br />I live for the overdraft fees and the free twenty dollar bills <br />from my Aunt Glenda <br />For the classes I passed and the ones I failed, for the jobs I quit and the ones I got fired from <br />For the grandmother I lost and the babygirl I’m about to have <br />Because that is life to me <br />Taking the good and the bad and hoping for mostly good<br /><br />Hiram Sims<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-world-according-to-a-26year-old/
