The Greatest of All Time!

by Paul Semendinger

August 18, 2024

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Note - I wrote this article for my personal blog: www.drpaulsem.com

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As we progress through life, our priorities change – sometimes dramatically.  As we age, we gain wisdom and make decisions, big and small, placing different values on things that we determine to be important.  Some things that might have seemed important at one time no longer are.  As life changes, priorities change.  

And this is good and necessary and important.

This weekend there is a huge sports event in New York City that in a different situation I would have loved to have been part of.  Some of the most legendary living athletes will be present at the event:  Derek Jeter, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Dr. J., Kareem Abdul-Jabbar…  The list goes on and on and on.  It is almost endless.  In addition, every major sport has interactive activities at this event which is being hyped as one of the greatest sporting events of all time. The whole event seems huge, amazing, wonderful, and awe inspiring.  

And I had the opportunity to be part of it all.  

But life sometimes has other plans, other decisions…

Better decisions. 

MUCH better decisions.

Rather than being with a host of legendary sports figures, I am spending my time with two new superstars. 

The decision to forgo the huge sports event in the big city was an easy one for me.  The conclusion was self-evident from the start.  There was never any question as to which path I’d take.  

Sure, I’d definitely enjoy mingling with a host of sports personalities and immersing myself in athletics, sports history, legendary stories, events, activities, and so much more. 

But, again, I’m spending my time with two bigger legends.  I’m spending my time with the greatest of all time.  Of that, also, there is no question.

This weekend, my grandchildren came to visit.  This is their first time at our home.  They’re with us all weekend long.  

I’m spending my time with them.

And I could not be happier.  

Those sports legends have made hundreds of millions of dollars.  They have fame.  They epitomize greatness and glory to so many.  But my twin grandchildren, two beautiful, happy, and wonderful babies, almost three months old, are more precious and more valuable than all the sports and all those stars combined. 

And I’m the lucky one who gets to be with them.  

There isn’t a better gift in the world than to hold a baby, in this case, two of them, both created in love, from my son and his beautiful and loving wife.

 Those two babies are the greatest of all time. The gift I get is to spend my weekend with them.