- Birthdays are over rated by mo123
15 y
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Blog: The Crescent Moon Shines On Us All
May 27, 1953 a day that should of been a bad day. My mom sitting in an airforce hospital waiting to give birth with my grandma by her side. My dad still in Virginia at the air force base there. He was skinny, handsome and with a cigarette in his mouth. (my dad would later die from complications of smoking although when he died at the age of 60 he had not smoked in 20 years).
So I am in Clovis, New Mexico and my mom gives birth but it was not a happy day for me. Hey I have blood all over me and screaming my head off. I am screaming, cut the lights, cut the lights, it is too bright here.
So for 6 weeks we stay with my grandma and then abruptly my mom runs back to Kentucky home of my dad and puts me in a crumy apartment. There dad comes and being very uneducated only went to the 8th grade he searches for work.
He gets a job at General Motors where he works for 30 years and we were dirt poor. Life even then was crap.
Ok,so I was raised poor and then my dad starting doing better and he got some raises and we eventually got our first home. It was real nice and quaint and in a real good neighborhood. A small two bedroom home that I loved.
Then dad got the brillant ideal of building a mansion on top of a hill so we could compete with the Jones so we moved and the house was nice and great but it had lots of snakes. I hate snakes.
Funny I never like the new house and it has bad memories of such which I won't go into but in that home is where my nightmares began. I wonder why people like to compete with the Jones. Isn't being poor better and being simple better.
So today, I have no mom or dad or family and I celebrate alone.
My neighbor took me for lunch and we had some orange sherbert ice cream like stuff with fruit. Wonderful. I had an ok day but after it was over with, the one thought is, is that I wasted another year and I had not achieved enough. I must do more. I sleep too much when I must do more.
Do we make a bunch of resolutions we don't keep or do we keep them and not tell. I am so busy these days with 5 forums and this blog. Now did I do enough or should I mod on the 6th??? lol, I must sleep now.
Nobody brought me any birthday cake and few remembered me but indeed I had a good day. I guess birthdays do matter, it is a reminder of how lucky we are to be alive for one more year.
the end.
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- Re: Birthdays are over rated by mariposa azul
15 y
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Hi there!
Happy birthday to you!!! Blessings to you wherever that may find you...blessings. Today is mine...and I just read your post. I feel your sadness and I send you the biggest hug you can imagine. Today I find myself very happy. In love with my husband and children. Yet, I cannot help but notice the calls from old friends today are few...hmmm. I will not let that be a testament of my life because this coming year is one to possibly make new ones?
Everyone is so busy & preoccupied in their own lives...and they sometimes might forget to reach out, heh?
But I understand how you might feel...and reading your posts here and there just wanted you to know that you might matter to more people than you might think.
Blessings, peace and love to you.
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- Re: Birthdays are over rated by mo123
15 y
1,632
Thank you very, very much. I so need to hear that. I get so busy and so many problems here and there and it is just nice someone appreciates it all.
SARA
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- Re: Birthdays are over rated by ren
15 y
1,790
Birthdays are overrrated. I am amazed at how adults still celebrate them and demand gifts,etc. Women talk about how old they're getting and forty is the new thirty,etc.etc. I rarely celebrate my birthday. It must be a milestone event and something significant.
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