Two Completely Different Peninsulas

Even though school is out for the year, it doesn't mean I'm not learning anything.

My grandpa has been a hero of mine for as long as I can remember. He's the coolest guy I know, and spending time with him this week is making that even clearer. Yet there are some obvious differences in how we live our lives.

Something about being in the military, and probably being old too, gets him up at 4 a.m. every day to make a pot of coffee. The thing I prefer about grandpa, compared to other ex-military I've lived with, is his sneakiness.

There are other guys that wake up at an ungodly hour, and want everyone to be up with them. So I appreciate my grandpa not being obnoxious...

Another thing I find funny about him is that he believes everything he reads on the Internet.

There are some very interesting people that find some very interesting ways to convince other people to believe in their very interesting theories.

But the best part about my grandpa, which is also the part I could really benefit from imitating, is his demeanor. He’s been married to my grandma for more than 50 years, and though he’s been mostly deaf for about 20 of those years, he’s still able to make my grandma and everyone around him happy.

That is something that I strive for in my own life. My main purpose is to make everyone I know as happy as possible. Though I’ve driven off that track recently, this trip is opening to my eyes about what my real purpose is.

My days of selfish searches for happiness are over, and its back to being me.

It shouldn’t have taken a trip down to Florida to make me realize this, but the pancakes were definitely worth the trip.