My Mom tells me that at around 7:22am exactly fifty-one years ago I joined the world. I was fat and had a full head of hair, oh how things have changed.
Birthdays for me are always a time to not only look back but to also look forward. It’s so important during times like we’re living in today, with so many things going wrong, to try to stay focused on the good.
I agree with Bowie. These past five years, I do feel like I am consciously becoming the person I should have been.
As I look back at certain aspects of my younger self, to be honest, I’m a little embarrassed. I wasted far too much time and energy trying to please others, not being completely honest with myself, and feeding my own ego. I was so hungry for accolades, especially with my writing.
I love the person I am now and am becoming. I’ve been humbled by the years in so many ways.
The fifth decade of life is awesome. The body still works, the brain is still sharp for the most part. In your fifties you begin to become a little less visible and relevant to society as a whole and this is a good thing if you have the proper perspective on it.
Also, if you have been living with your eyes open you’ve learned enough to realize much more about the very tiny part you play in this world. The butterfly effect so eloquently explains how our seemingly tiny actions can have very large and far reaching consequences.
I love this quote by Jules Renard, “It’s not how old you are it’s how you are old.”
I don’t want to be one of those bitter, grumpy and, constantly complaining old men and I’m going to work hard not to be.
Life will never be perfect but it is good and the view is getting a little better every year.
Thank you all for the support and friendship you've shown me during the past six years on the blockchain! We've made some wonderful memories together.
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Poetry should move us, it should change us, it should glitch our brains, shift our moods to another frequency. Poetry should evoke feelings of melancholy, whimsy, it should remind us what it feels like to be in love, or cause us to think about something in a completely different way. I view poetry, and all art really, as a temporary and fragile bridge between our world and a more pure and refined one. This is a world we could bring into creation if enough of us believed in it. This book is ephemera, destined to end up forgotten, lingering on some dusty shelf or tucked away in a dark attic. Yet the words, they will live on in memory. I hope these words become a part of you, bubble up into your memory when you least expect them to and make you feel a little more alive.
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