Shopping for boyfriends is hard. Yeah, they will usually pretend to like anything you buy or make for them, but nobody wants their boyfriend to be secretly disappointed with a gift. Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m the only one who has a hard time shopping for guys. I do tend to over-think most things. To me, buying a guy clothes is very generic and just screams “You need to learn how to dress!”. It’s true, there are lots of guys out there with a very poor sense of fashion, but I think that’s more endearing than anything else. Besides, I would rather my boyfriend not obsess over what he wears. That would be weird and annoying. I tell him I like the way he looks in green, he wears green until I tell him he looks good in another color. It’s easy and I don’t want to ruin the system. Most guy gifts like cologne and tie clips are too impersonal for a boyfriend. Guys do like electronics, but I’m not sure I’m willing to spend the kind of money it would take to get him something that he would actually like from Best Buy. I have a tendency to pick out presents that I would like too, which isn’t always the best way to go about gift giving. I have given a few pets or video games that I never really intended to let the recipient keep. I also worry about giving a guy a gift that’s too sentimental. If it’s too mushy, I’m afraid he won’t really like it but will feel obligated to use or display whatever it is. Guys can get away with giving a girl something fuzzy or shiny for just about every gift giving occasion, but jewelery and stuffed animals aren’t gonna fly when buying a guy a present. My boyfriend doesn’t wear jewelery or stockpile sentiment. He likes the trumpet and his bicycle. That’s not much to work with.

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Other people’s ipods can give you insight into who they are. The music people listen to when no one else can hear says a lot about who they are. People who normally listen to upbeat pop may secretly be crying inside to a bunch of sappy emo on their ipods and you would never know. One time Sean and I had driven to Virginia and I had to fly out a few days before him. I had forgotten my ipod so he let me use his for the long, boring flight back. I gotta say, I had a little different perspective of him by the time I got home. I knew there would be a lot of horn music since he is a trumpet player, and the ska didn’t surprise me, but apparently the guy is way into underground rap as well. That was a bit of an eye opener. So were the Disney songs. The last thing he told me before I got on the plane with his ipod was “Don’t judge me!”. I get it now. In addition to his rap and Disney music, he had a lot of slow, almost forlorn classical tunes compiled. That was the biggest surprise to me. Sean is normally really upbeat, loud, and energetic, so I didn’t expect him to have that super-calm-sitting-and-thinking side. Ipods can be just as personal as someone’s cell phone or computer. They are full of words and melodies that their owners get motivation and serenity from. People are comfortable when they are listing to music that speaks to them. To really get to know a person, steal their ipod for a day. Then give it back or put it back where you found it so it’s not obvious that you snatched it.

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It’s no secret that time seems to pass by faster as we get older. It seems like the holidays show up more frequently now than they did when I was five but they don’t. Birthdays still only come around once a year and Halloween still only shows up every 365 days. What makes the time seem to fly by some much faster as we get older? I’ve thought a lot about this and the only thing I can come up with is that it does. While a year still lasts 365 days no matter how old you are, it becomes a smaller fraction of your lifetime as you get older. For a two-year-old, Christmas takes half a lifetime to come around. For a forty-year-old, it only takes one fortieth of your life to come back around. When your only working with 720 days worth of life, 365 days is a pretty substantial chunk of time. When you have 14,600 days under your belt, 365 isn’t all that many. Basically, how are perceive an amount of time is relative to our current lifetime. The fact that I can say I’ve known my best friend for 20 years is astounding to me. Its hard for me to imagine knowing anything can remain consistent in my life for 20 years. An 80-year-old might feel differently about that. They would probably have lots of constants that they have know for 20 years. Maybe someone lived in the same house for 20 years, had the same spouse, several friends, or even kept a horse for 20 years. To me that’s an entire lifetime, but for a much older person, 20 years is just a fraction of the life that they know.

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