Happy Birthday To Me
Put forth on August 28, 2006 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Uncategorized
It is that time of the year again, my birthday, when a year of your life goes by. It is amusing how most people dread this day or the reality that we are getting older but there are some who do embrace getting older. Many of us jokingly lying about our age like it will some how halt time.
I remember when I was in my 20s the thought of turning 30, meant it was getting old. It was a part of my life when anything was possible and my whole future was before of me. It was until weeks before my 30th birthday, I realized I was reaching one of life’s milestones, the big 3.0. Once I reached and gone over it, thinking back, it was a bunch of crap truthfully. I was worried for nothing.
Yes, there are changes; I have more grey hair than I did before. I have also found that I am no more enthusiastic in certain things that gave me joy when I was younger. I may have wandered off the road map I made for my life years before, but with each new path I ventured onto, I have not regretted it, there were lessons in life, which I still needed to understand. Lessons I probably couldn’t have understood when younger. I now understand why I was told, “When you get older, you’ll understand.” It is true. As much as a part of me would like to be 29, I think I will survive a whole year being 34.
So here is to another year to a new age. Happy Birthday to me.
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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¡oye, Feliz Cumpleaños!
Happy birthday, youngster!
34 is just a distant memory for some of us.
feliz cumpleanos, XP. On the one hand, I thought you were 22, on the other hand, you could have been 55. The internet is funny that way.
Apio Verde, Brudda!
34? I would have guessed 27. Yes, 34 is so distant from me too–a year! lol
Have fun, celebrate, and relax. And if anyone offers you a walker, swing it at them!
Stace
Thanks y’all. I see Bush is still in office, damn, I didn’t get my birthday wish. Maybe next year.
Happy belated birthday. Do people guess your age accurately? A few hours before my 26th birthday on Thursday, someone told me I looked 16.
hey cindy, thank you. It happens all the time and when I am with my father, people have questioned us if we are brothers. However, my sister has it worse, she is 30 and people still see her in her teens. I guess she will come to appreciate it when she is much older, but right now, forget it….lol
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