Birthdays come and go mostly unrecognised and uncelebrated for me, I like it that way - I mean my own birthday, just to clarify that point. I just don't feel right celebrating something that I didn't work towards achieving and certainly don't expect others to do it either. Popping out of a womb and into the world required no effort on my part, I just sort of slipped out then got a smack on my little cute ass by the doctor to get me breathing and that was that. No effort on my part, although I'm still trying to track that fucken doctor down as I owe him a smack...with compounding interest.
So anyway, recently I had a birthday and, against my usual strict and uncompromising no celebration policy I allowed celebrations to occur. My girl-person made somewhat of a big deal out of it and I had @mrbonkers here and he was really excited to do a birthday celebration with me (which has never occurred before). I love that kid, the best nephew ever, so it was a nice and pretty special time...and I enjoyed it a lot but don't fucken tell anyone I said that or they may want to do it again next year.
It was pretty low-key.
I did a BBQ at home: Steak and chicken (marinated with my secret marinade that'll I can't tell you about) and chorizo sausage, a couple salady things, garlic bread (I even had a slice myself), a legit cold cuts/cheese platter and later on some cheese cake. (No candles of course, I'm not fucken 5 years old.) I made all the food, cooked the BBQ and did all the cleaning up. I know, right? I chose to do that though as the whole birthday thing makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable so I used that as a way to sort of divert those thoughts and the attention away from me. I relaxed as well though, had a water fight with @mrbonkers because it was hot and had a pretty decent time.
Now I'm 138
I'm at an age when I can legitimately think about retirement the non-work phase of my life.
I recall being a kid when I didn't have a professional job and life's complexities and remember fondly all the awesome things I was able to do, the enjoyment and lack of stress and all that...and I'm now close to regaining that situation which I'm looking forward to. I have a lot of things lined up and think I'll need another 138 years to get them all done, but I'll be happy to die before then knowing my life was designed and created (largely by me) and that I chose to live it as best I can rather than be a wage-slave for its entirety. I have a full life now but it'll open up a little more in my non-work phase.
Turning 138 wasn't so bad and neither was the little celebration I had with a small portion of my family; we're scattered all over the world so it's difficult to all gather together but on the night we had a video chat with my brother @tarazkp and my niece @smallsteps which was nice. As for getting older, well that's not something I'm all that worried about, it's going to happen. Sure, I'd like to be 32 again but if I was I'd not know what I've learned in the intervening years and it's those things that help make my life better in the moment.
I like the quote by George Bernard Shaw above and it makes me think about how I've managed my life.
Yeah I've had bad times, (monumentally bad), and I've had the best times too but throughout I've never lost that part of me that sought to have fun, be my genuine self and have the honesty and individuality to live my life my own way and under the code of honour and integrity (as I see it) that's so important to me. I am responsible for my own life so moving into the next part of it (the part before I fucken die and become forgotten) I maintain that same ethos and seek to keep playing...until it's game over.
Design and create your ideal life, tomorrow isn't promised - galenkp
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Happy BBQ Day! Doesn't matter that it happened to coincide with another auspicious day which shall remain nameless. mrbonkers had a great day and that's worth the discomfort you felt. 138 isn't so bad and there's a whole lot of time before 139 rolls around. One day closer to that non-working phase!! Nice bike ya got there :D
Thank you for not mentioning the B word. Makes me cringe when I hear it in respect of me.
Yeah, it was a good BBQ and that water fight we had...I don't laugh out loud like very often. So yeah, 139 next year, but seriously, I don't look a day over fucken 129.
I loved that bike, Yamaha TRX850 twin, loud as fuck. I had some good rides on that thing and regret selling it to be honest, but I got a Yamaha R6 and then an R1 and those bikes are like riding bullets! Me likey bikes.
Laughing out loud is so underrated. Don't wait til mrbonkers comes for another visit to bust out your LOL, it relieves stress and makes the time pass faster. Will it make your non-working phase come sooner?? I don't know lol, but it won't hurt to try.
Bikes and F1 racing?....methinks you gots a thing for speed.
One must know when to go fast and when to gow slow; I'm pretty sure I know what's up, and when each needs to happen. 😶
I've got some stuff going on, not a lot of cause for laughter just at th nminute, but I wasn't about to let that ruin my time with my nephew. We had a good time. I'm looking forward to a video call hopefully during the week...want to tell him about the gift I had made for him...get him riled up and checking the mail box every day.
I can picture your mini me checking the mail every day😄
He does actually. We swap letters as well and when he knows something is on the way he's down at the mailbox every afternoon. We also swap photos of when the letter/parcel arrives. I love his enthusiasm and how small things like this make him so engaged and happy.
That works both ways and I bet you smile as much as he does, but maybe youdon't run to the mailbox with as much enthusiasm lol. He'll remember it always!
You don't need the whack on the arse to get breathing otherwise none of my kids would have survived birth XD
Given that you could get into a traffic accident any given moment I sometimes think getting to the next birthday is worth at least some reflection. And even if you don't think you're worth celebration I hope you let other people celebrate you because at least some of them are glad you're around and find you worth celebrating.
I'm pretty much like you and will routinely forget my own birthday because I don't care, but other people's birthdays are important because I'm glad they were born, so I had to apply the reverse so I wouldn't be a hypocrite
Happy 138th birthday old fart XD I'm glad you're around :) And moreso that you got to have a birthday party with MrBonkers! :D (and presumably his family too but we all know the kids are the most important and their adults are just kind of there XD)
Well then that fucken doctor is in for it then because I'm pretty sure he gave me a smack. If it wasn't required I definitely need some retribution. He'll pay dearly even though he's probably around a hundred years old by now. #nomercy
It was nice having @mrbonkers around in general and we had a great time; he's really such a good kid in many ways and reminds me of what I was like as a kid. We looked at a lot of old photos I have from when I was young and he looks just like me in many of them, and my other brothers as well. He's a good kid.
Bring on 139, not too far away...March the 34th 2026. 🤣
No H**** B******* shoutouts but stay healthy and happy as always! :)
Excellent, that means you read the post rather scanning it and seeing the word birthday then assuming (wrongly) that saying happy birthday was an appropriate response. (Which it is not.)
🙂
Hello @galenkp respecting your desire not to celebrate your birthday, I will not congratulate you I will simply wait every year for 139 to arrive, 140....and so I will know that we are alive and still here. Although I will tell you that I do like to celebrate mine and get lots of gifts. Bragging about the accumulated years is something I like. A hug.🤗😘
Thanks for reading the post properly and respecting the fact I don't like the birthday thing; you're one of only a few who have.
The accumulated years is all I have, it culminates into my life which I have enjoyed; I look forward to a handful more.
You're such a boring old git even when you're not!!! Think of it as having a party with your loved ones which just so happens to be on your birthday, rather than having your birthday party. If it makes them happy, surely you don't have the heart to stop it 😃
I only did it because my nephew, he really wanted to do a birthday thing with me so I let him. It was a good evening, we had fun, but as for the birthday aspect, it'll be back to doing nothing for my 139th.
happy birthday 🎂.... glad you will celebrate it in such a special way.... I guess in 138 years there will be another celebration. I'll be watching for it. By the way, I like the George Bernard Shaw quote, I didn't know it.Hi @galenkp, I don't know if I should say it?
Best not say it.
I had a good day a few weeks ago as my nephew was here, but we would have had the exact same day if it wasn't my birthday. To be honest. I really don't like celebrating my birthday with, what I think, is good reason although I'll not say why publically.
My 139th is going to be huge though.
Not really.
When that 139 comes (whether it's a big event or not), I'll be glad to tell you again <happy birthday 🎂. In a little while I will go for a walk after 15 days raining non-stop today I can see the sun. 🌞
Well, I do like to celebrate mine,but you've just made me have 2nd thoughts now with that effort analysis, nahhh, I'll keep doing it.
If you track the doctor, please, do some brief interrogation to him to get the location of mine, they all know each other, I'm tracking the bastard too, he stroke me with a stick as I was informed some time later...his stick is stored here and waiting for the payback day. 😁
There might be time for an interrogation although I can't promise it; he's likely to get what's coming to him rather quickly and then...well, I'm not sure he'll be in a position to speak much.
I'm glad to hear you have the stick and hope you come across that mother fucker some day and get to gain some retribution.
It was the dangling me upside down by my ankles and whoopin' my ass that pisses me off. I am sure they are all long dead and gone. If there is an afterlife tho then we need to dangle some doctors. 😳
Doctor dangling...sounds like a fair repayment.
🤣🤣🤣🤣. Just laugh out loud. Nothing to add. Do your thing and break him down. No space for words.
It's not really the years that we celebrate but life, experiences and good health, it's also the perfect excuse to get together with family and friends if you don't do it often. The latter is what I love about birthdays.
Anyway, I hope you had a good evening with those you gathered with and that you continue to fulfill your dreams and design your life! And of course may you have as many years as you want! 😄
It was a nice evening hanging around with my nephew and others and I think we all had a lot of fun which, to be honest, we would have done that night anyway.
Are you buying that drink or me? I don't think I'd be comfortable you buying it so I will, and look forward to it. You pick the place. 😊
It wasn't exactly an invitation. It was just a virtual toast to how well you spent your birthday! ☺️
These gifs are sometimes very suggestive! 😬
Happy Birthday!
Our family has traditionally celebrated birthdays, so I never really thought about whether I should be celebrated or not. I kind of like it. Although I did no more than you to get here, I have at least done whatever it took to still be here and not end up on with a Darwin Award! LOL....Looks like you have too and sometimes that takes some effort. So, you may have done nothing to get here, but you have done many things to still be here.... or that is how I see it.
However, if you choose not to celebrate, there is nothing wrong with that either.
Glad you had some extra family members there on your special (or not special) day. It sounds like it was fun.
Since the mid 1990's I've had no family (my brothers and sisters) living anywhere near me as they've been spread all over the world which makes getting together quite difficult and visits are few and far between. It was nice to have some of them here and we had a great time with good memories to take away from it. I look forward to the next.
I moved to Texas for 6 years, midlife adventure. It was pretty weird not being around any of my family. I flew home every Christmas for about 10 days and flew back twice for family weddings. The holidays were weird, but I have to say the folks I worked with were so friendly and multiples would invite me to celebrate the other holidays with their families, so I was never sitting lonely. It wasn't the same of course. I found I could survive away from them and I LOVED the adventure. My family was the only thing I missed, but I couldn't imagine living extremely far away forever now.
Plenty of people do it I know and if I was younger I might go on another temporary, extended life adventure, but we are getting too old to be apart now I think.
I know people who don't mind it so much but I really miss my niece and nephew and video chats just aren't the same. I'd really love for them to come here to stay but it's not going to happen so I take what I can get. When I exit the workforce I'll be able to travel a lot more and for extended periods so it'll not be soo bad I think. For now, I guess I just have to deal with it.
Family moving around is always going to happen I guess like you did, people have to live their lives as they choose.
You don’t look a day over 125.
Haha, yeah I know...Nivea moisturiser works wonders.
Happy Birthday even though you don't like to celebrate. I don't really like to celebrate my birthday either, but it's always a little nice to know when people acknowledge it. It sounds like you had a really great day. I grilled some steak and chicken myself today too.
It was a little while ago (I'm not into announcing the date) so I'm over 138 years old now and on the way to 139; hopefully I'll make it.
It was a nice day and nice to have some family around.
A large number of things in life that we do, we do for the reasons of those around us who love us.
It's the same with celebrations.
If only we (some of us) were to ask ourselves, we would spend those days in nature, in the forest, on the mountain, by the lake.
And because of them, we sing silly songs, wear birthday caps and blow out candles on the cake.
In fact, that's how we just play, stopping our aging for a while, as Mr Shaw said.
May you be alive and healthy for another 138 years, whether you are forced to celebrate or not!
I'm not sure if I'll make another 138 years, I'll aim to make 139 next year and see how it goes from there.
Move according to your niece's name, small steps forward 🙂 year by year
Well will it be awkward to say happy birthday to person who doesn’t like birthdays to be celebrated.
Well wish you best of luck mate.
I can also relate this with you as I have also lost the zeal for my birthdays from many years. I actually don’t want them to be treated as special day. It is bad or good ,I don’t know but it is
I only did a birthday things because it's what my nephew wanted to do, otherwise it would have gone by without any notice.
Very happy 138 years or maybe 12 if I add up the numbers! Congratulations!!! If you knew the work your soul did before it got into your body to come... a lot of work!
You celebrated life, and the day you decided to go out into the world to learn things about humans, because you are not human are you? Well, that's something to celebrate! Well done!
I'm glad you had such a beautiful birthday!
Yeah, and I don't look a day older than 137!
Of course! I would say 37!
I am with you. I don't like to celebrate my birthday. My girlperson loves to celebrate everything and everyone.
But this year I really just want it left alone!
Happy birthday anyway.
I began hating my birthday from my 9th onwards, there's a reason but not one I'll mention here. I don't mind celebrating other people's though.
Hmmm... I don't really know why or when it started. but in high school onwards it was not strange for people to find out my birthday was weeks ago.
As an adult... same... until I met Claire.... Can't hide it from her. lol
Yep, there's no hiding much from she who knows all.
🤣🤣🤣 Yeah... but this year I have reason to reject a birthday. I really want to skip it this year.
#oldbastard.
😊
Haha, indeed.
Though true it is more about how the kids remembered my last one so well... and then forgot my wife's!
And they were TOLD and REMINDED but it made that whole week an absolute disaster!
Marked on my calendar/bucket list...
139th surprise B-Day bash for the G-Dog.
Suprise birthday things are one of my most hates occurrences. Hate them.
Bash = Cold Beverages, Great BBQ, Scantily Dressed Girls, Good Music... Ahhh Fuk it.
Who am I trying to fool? I would rather meet ya'll in the middle of nowhere. Just a handful of friends, Geared up for a weeks worth of off grid adventures, campfires, and star gazing.
If there's a campfire I'm in.
Happy birthday @galenkp,enjoy your day and keep healthy all the time,may god bless you🤍
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