Birthday Girl

 

You say it's your birthday
It's my birthday too, yeah
They say it's your birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you

 

So.  Another year older – and one would hope wiser; though I don’t know by how much.  I am moving within my 5^th decade – still on the lee side, which comforts me somewhat.  I don’t like the number much.  It’s not who I am, you see.  Inside I’m very much as I was 25 years ago; in that I feel connected to what is usually reserved for the young of this world: music, activism, social networking (Hello!  I blog!!!).  Once a person hits my current age – they are supposed to no longer want or even dream – yet I do both constantly.  There’s still so much I wish to achieve.  Unfortunately (societally speaking), I’m considered too old for all that.

 

Why do we do that?  If you are rich and old – you are listened too – considered wise.  If you reach your 5^th decade without amassing millions, however – you are considered disposable.  Just so much flotsam to wash down the river.  Had you anything to offer – it would have been mined years ago.  I heard Andrew Lloyd Webber say that very thing to a thirty-year-old aspirant for the Joseph role in Webber’s latest ‘Dreamcoat’ revival.  In other words: as he wasn’t already a star – there must be something wrong with him (even if nothing ‘wrong’ is discernable).  I’ve heard the exact same thing many a time: when I was 25, then 30, then 40 – ‘what’s wrong with you?  Why hasn’t the world already beaten a path to your door’?

 

Dunno.  You could ask Susan Boyle the same question.  Only people seem to have fashioned an answer in her case: she’s not already a superstar (despite yards of talent) ‘cause she’s ‘unattractive’ (in our stick-figure, youth obsessed, cultural sense of the word).  Only the beautiful need apply.  Oh – and the young; and by that I mean teenage – because 15 has recently become the new black.  Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, The Jonas Brothers – precocious is the word of the decade.  It’s what the ‘ought’s’ will be remembered for – too-young starlets 'sexting' their way through Hollywood’s dicey pedophilia door.  No one admits it – they just all look the other way as stylists tart up kids to look decades older.  Funny, in a way.  ‘Cause as soon as you reach the age they want you to look – you’re considered too old.

 

Anyway…..  April 24^th 2009.  Happy Birthday, me.  Know what I want more than anything else in the whole, wide world?  A stress free day.  That’s all – just a day with no drama.  An entire day in which I can fuck off and be myself: no hassles and no pain.  

 

What do you think the odds are that’s gonna happen?

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[Joanna]

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I hope you were able to fuck off and have a stress free day to yourself honey! *grin*

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Love you
Lizzy

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