was it 5 minutes ago? or 25 years ago?

Time is a funny thing, Time passes slowly for something’s while it whizzes by in another respect.
I am looking back at what amounts to about 5 minutes ago. I said I Do 25 years ago today. My wife and I have managed to raise 2 fine children and adopted a third, we talked the other night about our lives together and came up with where did the time go. We lived in the same apartment for 16 years and don’t remember most of it and yet we remember it all. We had plenty of good things happen to us and some bad. For the most part all has been well in our home and yes, Life is good.
I met my wife while helping a friend move to his new apartment, back home in Pomona. I knew what I wanted the moment I saw her. Her big smile and brown eyes captivated me from the beginning!
When I first spoke to her I asked are you from here? She said no just here living with my sister. “Well where are you from?” I am from Salem! She exclaimed with great pride. I asked the typical question Massachusetts or Oregon? Her reply was Utah… see? NO HORNS!. I was hooked!
Let me step back a few months before I met Dianna. I was traveling back to California from Wisconsin where I had spent the coldest winter of my life. 60 degrees below zero some days and more snow than I had ever seen in my life. As the bus passed through Utah I saw a sign for the Budget Fuel Stop in a place called Payson.
I remember this because I thought to my self “I wonder what kind of girl come from Payson? I would have to return one day to see!
After meeting Dianna and being inseparable for 3 months, She came home to visit with her grandmother who was ill. She and her sister came back only to leave again. I was heart broken that she did this. So a few months passed a failed relationship had come and gone (she wasn’t my Dianna) and I called her up. I pled my case this way “ I love you, I miss you! What are you going to do about it?”
She told me she was in love with me too. When asked should she come back to California? Or Me here to Utah or can we meet in the middle? The discussion was short! I came here. When the bus got off the freeway the first stop was the Budget Fuel Stop! I guess my passing thought paid off, as I know what kind of girl comes from Payson. The best kind!.
I have gone through many changes since then, I was an Appliance repair man, A guinea pig for a drug study an Auto mechanic and shop manager and now a computer technician. A Boyfriend, a father and Husband, Grandfather. The Jobs get better and so does life.
To my surprise I have lived most of my life here (longer than anywhere else) I have grown in so many ways and learned to love (most importantly) This sounds like a lot of living for 25 years but it’s only been about 5 minutes since I said “Hello”