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 5th 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 5th 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 24th 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?
happy birthday, you!
Posted by: Joanna | April 24, 2009 at 11:04 PM
I hope you were able to fuck off and have a stress free day to yourself honey! *grin*
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Jude | April 25, 2009 at 11:47 AM
So did you fuck off yesterday? I hope so and a very happy belated birthday to you, FLS.
Love you
Lizzy
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