Birthday's to me are days to celebrate your existence. It's a day where even if I am annoyed or pissed off at someone, I'll put aside my grudges and wish the person a happy birthday usually through e-mail or text. Just because you are upset, doesn't mean you cannot honor their existence.
I usually take off from work on my birthday because it's truly your day to celebrate, why throw a wrench in your celebration? Last year I decided to work on my birthday and it was THE worst day of my life. I got home and didn't want to see another human being.
This year I cannot take off so my celebrations are somewhat different. I open up my first "gift", by that I mean a premeditated gift that is wrapped, since I was in high school. I remember that gift, it was my first guitar. First of many. Its almost 11 o'clock and I am sitting in the sun, sipping coffee and I began to think, "I want to do something that I thoroughly enjoy today, just for me." I looked out over my mom's back yard and it needs a mowing. Ah hah! So as soon as I click publish post, I will suit up and tackle the lawn. There's nothing like mowing a lawn. Immediate gratification that any true man appreciates.
This will probably be the first of many birthday posts for me but at the moment, I am going to do something I thoroughly enjoy. Some may read a book, lay on the couch, or go to the beach, but not me. I prefer the pleasant manly aroma of gasoline and cut grass radiating from my sweaty body.
Birthdays, do what makes you happy because you too can put the "happy" in happy birthday :-)
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