Yesterday was my 29th Birthday.<\/p>\n
You would think that I would have some great declaration to make… some new awakening..\u00a0 Usually, my birthdays are, indeed, indicative of such self-reflective type behavior.\u00a0 Not this year.\u00a0 This year, I seemed to resign to the fact that, at a certain point in one’s life, it truly does just become “another day”.<\/p>\n
My dad always said that about his birthday.\u00a0 “Happy birthday daddy! How do you feel?”.\u00a0 Always the same reply: “just another day”… Though, the older he got it would occassionally be replaced with “better than the alternative”.\u00a0 I always thought it was a horrible way to behave on your birthday.<\/p>\n
As I crept toward my last birthday in my 20s, I thought that there would be some life altering declaration of how I forsaw the rest of my life playing out – some big resolution of sorts.\u00a0 But the day came.\u00a0 It went.\u00a0 There was no spiritual climax.\u00a0 There wasn’t even a twinge of resentment toward my waning youth.\u00a0 The only thing I felt was relief that, up to now, I had not made any really significant mistakes or blunders in my life that might put my future plans asunder.\u00a0 All in all, I felt just glad that another year was under my belt – and under my belt quite successfully (or, at the least, without damage).<\/p>\n
The truth is, I look forward to getting older.\u00a0 I don’t know if this makes me lame but I feel like being older has always suited me better.\u00a0 I am not, by nature, a youthful person.\u00a0 I have, even since a very young age, been odd among my peers.\u00a0 I have never been one to party till I dropped.\u00a0 I never really found the thrill in life threatening ventures.\u00a0 I just like to sit and think. I like to take naps and make hot tea on cold nights.\u00a0 I enjoy long walks to stretch my legs and going to the pond to feed the geese.\u00a0 I guess, the closer to 30 I get, the more relieved I feel because I finally get to be the age I feel.\u00a0 I missed three phone calls last night.\u00a0 They all left messages saying “Yeah, you must be out having one hell of a time!\u00a0 LIVE IT UP!\u00a0 HAPPY BIRTHDAY”\u00a0 or other such customary tidings on one’s birthday.\u00a0 Really, I was curled up in bed at 9pm, big book on my lap and my husband next to me snoring.\u00a0 And it was the only place I wanted to be.\u00a0 My birthday wish is for many more years of this.<\/p>\n
Ps.\u00a0 There are two jokers sitting next to me at the coffeehouse I am sitting in.\u00a0 Old men.. One of them just said “do you think the Pope says ‘Holy Shit’ when he is in the vatican bathroom?”.<\/p>\n
Yes.\u00a0 To be older is to be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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