Is This A Sign That I'm Getting Old?
Is this a sign that I'm getting old that when a birthday is just another birthday?
I'm now 22.
I don't feel any different. Am I supposed to?
Is 22 just a random age?
But I am grateful to live to fight another day.
Today is the anniversary of my birth.
My mother says its my real birthday because I was born 22 years ago on a Tuesday.
And I'll leave you with the lyrics of Shirley Horn's "Here's To Life"
NO COMPLAINTS AND NO REGRETS.
I STILL BELIEVE IN CHASING DREAMS AND PLACING BETS.
BUT I HAVE LEARNED THAT ALL YOU GIVE IS ALL YOU GET, SO GIVE IT ALL YOU GOT.
I HAD MY SHARE, I DRANK MY FILL, AND EVEN THOUGH I’M SATISFIED I’M HUNGRY STILL TO SEE WHAT’S DOWN ANOTHER ROAD, BEYOND A HILL AND DO IT ALL AGAIN.
SO HERE’S TO LIFE AND ALL THE JOY IT BRINGS.
HERE’S TO LIFE THE DREAMERS AND THEIR DREAMS.
FUNNY HOW THE TIME JUST FLIES.
HOW LOVE CAN TURN FROM WARM HELLOS TO SAD GOODBYES AND LEAVE YOU WITH THE MEMORIES YOU’VE MEMORIZED TO KEEP YOUR WINTERS WARM.
THERE’S NO YES IN YESTERDAY.
AND WHO KNOWS WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS OR TAKES AWAY.
AS LONG AS I’M STILL IN THE GAME I WANT TO PLAY FOR LAUGHS, FOR LIFE, FOR LOVE.
SO HERE’S TO LIFE AND ALL THE JOY IT BRINGS.
HERE’S TO LIFE, THE DREAMERS AND THEIR DREAMS.
MAY ALL YOUR STORMS BE WEATHERED, AND ALL THAT’S GOOD GET BETTER.
HERE’S TO LIFE, HERE’S TO LOVE, HERE’S TO YOU.
MAY ALL YOUR STORMS BE WEATHERED, AND ALL THAT'S GOOD GET BETTER.
HERE'S TO LIFE, HERE'S TO LOVE, HERE'S TO YOU.
5 Comments:
Your not old! Happy Birthday
Happy birthday!! We should have gotten them to sing and dance at the restaurant!!!
HAPPY BUFDAY!!
I think it all begins to roll together and it doesn't bother you to get old.
i love birthdays! i don't know what your deal is! my nearly 60yo aunt loves hers, too! lol. HAPPY HAPPY!!
Happy Birthday!
You're not getting old. 22 and 23 will feel like any other day, lol. They are fairy uneventful bdays after (what was hopefully) the drunken debauchary of 21 and at 24 the realization that you will soon be 25.
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