It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This
As a child of the ’80s I fondly remember the Old Milwaukee and Old Milwaukee Light commercials that would show a group of guys fishing, observing the Swedish Bikini Team, or some other great manly thing. One of the guys would take a sip of a canned Old Milwaukee and then would say, “It doesn’t get any better than this”.
Roughly ten years after first seeing those commercials I was approaching the drinking age and I decided that it was time to see just how great things could be. We gathered a group of good friends and took a case of Old Milwaukee out to the lake just like in the commercials. We talked about girls, skipped a few stones on the water, then cracked open an Ol’ Mil’.
I nearly gagged. It was friggin’ horrible.
How could this be. I had been told that “It doesn’t get any better than this”, but that couldn’t be true. I was a young man but I knew that was a crock. I was thoroughly disappointed and new I could do better.
From that moment on I knew I wasn’t going to settle for anyone else’s expectations. I knew I could be better.
This is just one of many times in my life when I expected a situation to be something amazing just to realize when I got there that it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, Including becoming a Vice President of a bank. That position was something that I wanted for a number of years but I was no where near happy once I reached it.
From that teenage moment where I had to struggle to finish that crappy beer I knew that I had to set my goals higher and that I should never settle for someone else’s idea of a great situation. I have lost my way a couple of times but I am back on track… working towards my own goals and not even considering what others consider as good as it gets.
It Does Get Better Than That. And It Keeps Getting Better.