I'm now 37 years old. Birthday was Wed. Birthdays are always a bit melancholy. Too many dark thoughts of what might have been or what I should have done with my life. Still don't feel like a proper adult. Not sure I ever will.
@stoof @nelson Thank you both for your wishes. It wasn't anything special that day. I didn't tell anyone at work on Wed that it was my birthday because I was too deep into my own brain.
I struggle with some mental health, but I'm finding a way to keep on keeping on. Just hard sometimes when those dark thoughts creep in.
@sonicbooming I get it. 🙂
For those of us for whom keeping on is hard friggin' work, 37 is a triumph.
never my favorite day of the year, either, but a belated birthday 💚 all the same
@sonicbooming happy birthday! As someone from the far side of 45 I hate to say it but it doesn't get better. Enjoy the good things you have. Pursue happiness.
@sonicbooming Growing up is over-rated.
@sonicbooming There’s nothing more adult that not feeling like a proper adult.
...and happy birthday!
@sonicbooming Hi, replace 37 with 55 and this was me 3 weeks ago. It’s ok though - we all just do what we can until we run out of time.
@sonicbooming Ah, the melancholy of birthdays. They've always been a major source of Mortality Feels ever since the year we got up on my birthday to find my dad dead on the kitchen floor.
By complete and utter coincidence I don't celebrate my birthday any more...
@anthracite Damn. I won't pretend that I can relate to something like what you experienced. But yeah, birthdays can be a thing for so many people and not always a good one. Thank you for sharing with me though.
@sonicbooming happy birthday!
I've started seeing birthdays as a triumph.