December Daily: birthdays

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ride_4ever -- birthdays

Happy birthday,ride_4ever!

In about three weeks, the kidlet -- who was born shortly after I discovered fanfic -- will be 21 years old. This is staggering and unimaginable.

I don't really remember what I did on my 21st birthday. I'm very sure I didn't feel like an adult.
I remember seeing a picture of the spouse on his 21st birthday -- he was away at an internship, surrounded by strange journalists, and since he always stopped eating when he was unhappy, in the picture he looks like a famine victim.

None of us are really drinkers, so the transition didn't mean much.

Two or three years later I had a great birthday at my first job, grilling chicken on a tiny charcoal grill in the back of my apartment in the mountains, then spending all evening selling concessions at a basketball game for some charity or other, busy, distracted, surrounded by friends.

In May I'll turn 56. I feel that there should be additional turning-point birthdays and additional new privileges introduced.

35 - if you've found a hairstyle that suits you, stylists have to let you ignore trends and keep it for as long as you want.
49 - if you tell the same story more than once, everybody has to let you tell it all the way to the end.
52 - take off your shoes anywhere you want to.
60 - on this birthday you receive a piercing social whisper that's louder than a shout, and you're allowed to use it to mutter about anyone who's being pompous out in public.



Comment to leave me a prompt! Steal ride_4ever's prompt if you want to do the meme yourself!

18 -- muccamukk -- Dwarvish things in your everyday life. (Moved from the 17th so ride_4ever could get the birthday date.)
19 -- jesse_the_k -- advice you regret following
20 -- copracat -- memory.
21 -- rhi -- cats.
22 -- marina - Your top three fics you've ever read. Your top three favorite fics you've ever written.
23 -- laurenthemself -- Something spooky that's happened to you
24 -- acid - Something you wish more people knew about you.
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