2024 BIRTHDAY MESSAGE

Celebrate me responsibly

I think it was when the fog started to slap me in the face that I realized something.

Despite the discomfort.

Despite the arguable unpleasantness of it all.

I was enjoying it.

I was enjoying the moment.

I was enjoying life.

It wasn’t bliss.
Bliss is fleeting.
Bliss is a flawed deduction made by ignoring some factors.

Not bliss.
Just… enjoying it.

I’ve travelled a lot this year.
I’ve travelled to a lot of places during less than postcard-worthy seasons.

St John’s, Newfoundland in May.
Manchester, UK in February.
It’s been a moist year.

But hang the weather!
Be thankful you’re alive to feel the rain.

I am.

Today’s my birthday.
I’m turning 55.

I once wrote in a journal when I was about 16 that when I turned 55 I would “drive a very fast car into a very hard wall”.
55 seemed impossibly old.
Kids… pffft.

It is not.
I can guarantee you in 5 years I will long for the youthfulness of 55.

I hope we all get to complain about being old.
We should be so lucky.

Everyday is a potential new start.
Chart a new course.
Stay the course.
Whatever.
You get to decide and that’s pretty great.

This side of the dirt is pretty great.

Now… go celebrate that.
Celebrate me. ;)

Please enjoy my birthday responsibly.

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Thanks and Happy Me!