Mark Bain:
CLASS OF 1973
Garden Grove High SchoolClass of 1973
Garden grove, CA
University of IrvineClass of 1999
Irvine, CA
Lampson Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Garden grove, CA
Mark's Story
I've been married for 33 years and have a 21 year old son. He is in his third year of college and doing well. I play golf, racquetball, tennis, bowling, and ski sporadically. I'm currently working as a consultant for a medical device company. Traveling to Michigan every week so that is getting old. I'm going to begin looking for something local so I can minimize the travel. I'm looking forward to doing something different and experiencing new challenges.
As I'm getting older, I think more about friends and family and the shortness of life. The little things mean more than they did before and there doesn't seem to be enough time to accomplish everything. I'm starting to recognize the missed opportunities in life and knowing that I can't recapture them saddens me. They say you get more sentimental as you get older and I guess this short story proves its true for me. Growing up, I experience time crawling but now it...Expand for more
is rocketing past. I have fairly good memory of the last several years but others are a vague gray image or I don't remember them at all. The cliques we had in high school and the avoidance we had for others seems ridiculous now.
If I could do it again, I would embrace all of the successes, failures, frustrations, and opportunities much more tightly than I did in the past. Looking back, they were all meaningful but I didn't recognize them as being so. I'm working hard to pass on the importance of each interaction to my son in the hopes that he will embrace life and chase after his dreams. His happiness and the lives he positively impacts is what will matter. Wish me luck as I wish you all luck. For me, I'm planning to cherish the remaining days of my life by holding the cup a little tighter so that the bumps in the road don't cause a spill. Especially if it's that HOT McDonalds coffee that results in a lawsuit.
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