December Daily: birthdays
Dec. 17th, 2019 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantride_4ever -- birthdaysHappy 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 following20 --
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 you24 --
acid - Something you wish more people knew about you.25 --
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Date: 12/18/19 02:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/18/19 05:15 am (UTC)Hee! I like the idea of that.
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Date: 12/18/19 05:50 am (UTC)I hope you have a nice way to spoil him. He only *thinks* he's grown up. :)
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Date: 12/18/19 12:42 pm (UTC)I love the idea of more big birthdays and the rights and privileges one should receive at those points. I've been using my 35th birthday hairstyle right since at least that age.
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Date: 12/18/19 07:54 pm (UTC)OMGWTF.
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Date: 12/19/19 02:18 am (UTC)I think maybe the best of the age milestones that I've experienced before now has been when I turned six and could stay up past 8.
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