another turning point @ 19th street

Nineteen years have come and gone, and maybe I'm none the wiser.
Sometimes, at reflective mood, I dare not laugh at life.
Overall I'm proud of who I am, and where I've been, and where I'll be and everyone within my life who's made me as I am.
I've seen and done and felt and learned things that maybe no one else know.
In many ways, I grew up young, in other ways not so.
And time will tell what weights I bear, and to what trails I succumb.
But none dare argue, atleast not I, that I have so much to thank God for.
My family, my friends, my ability, my better half, the fact that I can laugh later, sometimes much much later, at the inevitable pain of breath.
But now nineteen tallies, nineteen years I have to claim in many ways the wiser for it, in many ways the stronger for it, and always, always thankful for it...üä