Lovely ode to your fellow friends from the blockchain!
My own policy is not to celebrate my birthday but to celebrate EVERY day - and pay attention to friends and loved ones all year round. It is not a popular policy. People do attach great significance to the one day out of 365 that is "theirs" - so I keep trying to remember them all. (Social media helps.)
Ahhha. My birthday is one day of the year I really love to celebrate in my own quiet way. So, when is your birthday?
It's in April, even though my due date was in March - I was three weeks late so the doctor induced labor; still, 24 more hours passed; I was born in the cusp, Aries vs Taurus, and born jaundiced as well, due to my RhPositive blood being attacked like an alien invader by Mom's RhNegative.
You celebrate in your "own quiet way" - I like that. I used to plant a tree every birthday, but now I'm on seven acres with countless trees so I pull garlic mustard instead, protecting the understory, saving woodland wildflowers ("ephemerals") from the invaders.
Alien. Invaders. Story of my life!
I had a good laugh reading your story. I'm glad you won over jaundice and happy birthday in arrears to another April born. Have an amazing year!🎂
Thanks, you too!! Though 2020 got off to a rough start, there's hope for things to get better!
Very rough start, feels like we've lived 10 years in one but it will surely get better.