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It’s basic cause and effect people. And when it comes to life in general, the causes are always changing and their effects generally stay the same. So you know you’re growing – as a person, as a professional, as a boyfriend, whatever – when the causes keep coming at you and the effects change…

You know things are about to turn ugly when assorted members of your ambulance either don’t show up for thier shifts, or tell you they’d rather just be friends. But you know things are swinging towards the side of sanity when you don’t lose any sleep over it.

You know things are stacked against you when you close your car door and the window drops about 3 inches, then flops around loose in the tracks when you try to move it with your hand. But you know there’s more to serendipity than just bad luck when your all-day class gets rescheduled and you end up with an entire beautiful sunny Sunday to fix the damn thing.

Along that theme, you know you’re either getting bolder or stupider when the aforementioned automobile window problem occurs, and instead of whining about it and preparing to shell out three hundred clams to some crooked garage, you pace for a moment then rip the door open yourself. I think I can blame that one squarely on my friend Jason, who does all his own car work, and who somehow managed to convince me (probably taking advantage of my occasional adventurously irrational streak) that I could do the same thing.

Most importantly, you know things – important things – about you are growing up when you have a day filled with 180-degree expectation cancellations at every turn, and you still manage to enjoy it.

I’m going grocery shopping now.