42nd

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Sean reflects on an important birthday. To subscribe to Sean's daily blog, https://seandietrich.com/subscribe/ For information on events or other Sean of the South news, visit https://seandietrich.com/ To sponsor an episode, email LauraBeth@SeanDietrich.com Sean Dietrich is a columnist, humorist, multi-instrumentalist, and stand-up storyteller known for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Southern Living, Reader's Digest, Garden and Gun, a...

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0:28.0	Find your nearest store at foodcity.com. Well, today I have something I kind of want to talk about that is one of those things that I don't, if you'll care about it or not, but it matters to me.
1:05.0	Because this has been a pivotal year for me.
1:06.9	I am now the age.
1:09.2	My father was not. Let me say that again. I am the age that my father
1:17.2	never got to see. My dad died shortly after his 41st birthday, and I just turned 42. Now, I know
1:25.8	that's a baby to a lot of people and to other people listen to this.
1:29.1	That's probably an old, older than dirt guy. But to me, it's an age that has always existed in my head as a number that I did not expect to see.
1:40.1	For some reason, when you're a young man, you have this thing in your head that identifies with your fathers or your parents' age.
1:51.4	And if you've lost a parent at a young age, it changes your spectral timeline.
1:58.7	The history of your parents is sort of embedded within your consciousness
2:03.8	and you're not sure whether or not you're going to make it to the age that they made it to.
2:08.9	I hear this all the time talking to people who've lost parents. It's a huge thing. Someone will
2:15.7	have lost a parent when they were in their 20s and their dad was only like 55 and I'll say, you know, if I can just make it to 55, or someone will say, yeah, my mom lived until she was 81 and if I could just make it past 81.
2:29.7	Well, my age was 42, which I made it to this year. And I did not expect it to be so groundbreaking for me.
2:38.9	I kind of thought, yeah, it'd be a big deal. And then the next day, you know, I'd get over it and I'd just be this guy.
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