Reflections · 3:22am Jul 12th, 2020
Today is my birthday, and I have reflected a bit on what it means this day:
I am... satisfied with the life I've lived, and the choices I've made. Gods know they weren't always the right choices, but they were mine, and I am proud of all of them. Even the bad ones, because learning from them has made me a better person.
I've not lived a life of toil and routine. I've tasted a great deal of what life has to offer. More than many. I've been so many things, been so many places, touched so many lives. I've spent the past 4 years writing nearly three quarters of a million words, and I regret not a second of the time spent. I have in my time been:
- An evangelical preacher
- An atheist
- A celibate
- A pervert
- A Dominant
- A submissive
- A loner
- A family man
- An intellectual
- A blissful idiot
- A complete unknown
- A television star, watched by millions
- A Son
- A Father
- A homebody
- A traveler
- A miser
- A spendthrift
- A Reader
- A Writer
I've been all these things and more. Yes, there is still even more to come, but at 54 years of age, I would be a fool not to assume that there are now fewer days ahead than there are behind. I will quote a section of "Ulysses", one of my favorite poems,
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to meLittle remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought...
So, be you foe or be you friend, raise a glass in my name this day. The wine of life is sweet, let us drink it, together.
Way to be born!
May you live as long as you want, but never want as long as you live.
Sounding a touch like Might Guy for a fair bit of that, but still,
for you.
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!
This is a wonderful way to celebrate your birthday. So Cheers to you and another year of adventurous life!
Happy birthday mate! May you get all of your wishes save one, so that you will still have something to strive for.
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"A pony's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's an Alicorn for?"
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Putting off drama for a thousand years, evidently.
Happy Birthday! May you have many more!
Happy Birthday to you Penalt!
Happy Birthday in May you have a long life.
Happy birthday! Congratulations on another victory in the war against entropy.
A belated Happy Birthday. Very well said, and may you have at least another 50 years and may they be as well lived.