Absolutely no motivation to do anything but putter today. Expect no deep thoughts. I’ve got two paying gigs I should be on, but if all goes according to plan neither will progress today. I vant to be alone. Putz in the yard. Curse at my seeds for not germinating. Go for a walk with the boys. Putter.
Today I am six oh. Oughta be a special day. Just feels like a day.
It occurs to me that every day I’ve done this, from the day I hit 20, it seemed like it ought to be a big deal and it never was. I didn’t feel a bit wiser or more decrepit than on any other day.
Still don’t. Maybe it’ll hit later, if I sit real still.
Don’t worry about it. You’ll come to the point where the day will slide by without notice.
Happy Birthday Joel! As Older and Better Looking Than You says, the days, months, and years slip by faster and faster. Continue to enjoy the good parts.
Happy Birthday ya Geeze!
You ain’t that much farther along than me and I personally think you get along just fine.
Enjoy your day, you are doing today what most people never take the time to do. You are doing what you want, when you want, where you want. Here is to simple times. You go Joel
Feliz cumpleanos, pata de palo!
Well, Happy Geezer Day to you. Sixty is the new forty, or so I’m told.
I can’t count the times my birthday has passed and days later I realize whoa, missed it again! (Being self-employed I rarely know what day of the week it is.)
The only thing that I will say about birthdays is that nobody gets old simply by living a number of years. Getting old comes from giving up on our ideals and this you have not done. While the years wrinkle the skin, it’s giving up that wrinkles the soul.
Joel as one old geezer to another happy birthday. I too am 60 this year with my big day being in August. Remember there are a llot of folks pulling for you.
Happy Birthday
Two more years until Uncle Sam pays you to sit around and geeze, whatever geezing is. Getting old is fun! You can get away with stuff you can’t if you are younger. Just stay away from AARP.
Happy birth-feels like a day- day, y’old coot!
Happy birthday Joel! I hit 63 this year and still waiting for that magic birthday when I feel like a grownup.
Happy Birthday! I hope you had a wonderful day!
Best wishes from a sunny and windy SA.
Happy belated birthday sir. My brother turned 50 today. I’m with you – its just a number and don’t mean squat, we all get a turn eventually, age has nothing to do with it.
A very wise friend of mine, upon hearing a middle aged woman complain about how it was her birthday and how she had grown a year older, and just generally how OLD she was, quipped, quite laconically:
“Beats the alternative.”
This was very shortly after his twelve year old daughter died suddenly (two weeks after diagnosis) of cancer.
I keep this in mind whenever I feel that “Holy shit I’m grown older and one year closer to being a geezer!” shudder creeping up on me. There are plenty of people, even in this day and age of safety, advanced medicine, and pax Americana, who would have loved to have a chance to grow old and complain about their rheumatisms.
Happy Very Slightly Belated Birthday! 🙂
Hope it was pleasant, ya crusty ol’ desert hermit! Like you, I barely even notice ’em; haven’t since my 20s.
Late to the party but happy birthday anyways
Before reaching 21 there are all sorts of milestones you look forward to
16 driving
18 smoking
21 drinking
after that you lose the things to look forward to.
I always celebrate my birthdays at this age as a way of saying to the cosmos “Yep, still here suckers!” about as loud and boisterous as I can.
Its good to be alive, I dont have much experience with the alternative, so I will celebrate what I have
“16 driving
18 smoking
21 drinking”
…to which Lewis Grizzard added
“30 being able to talk about politics or the economy at a party and not have people look at you like ‘What does that kid think they’re talking about?’“