Happy birthday to me?

Hapy “early” birthday!

I heard a TED talk that said the secret to happiness is lower expectations. Made sense once I heard the talk. It IS true.

I am almost twice your age. I never did get the who;e “Dad” thing, myself — and the Mom one only slightly. I had a large number of dads and the original one won’t even return my calls now…and we are both dying. No, I didn’t do anything. Heck, haven’t seen him since I was a kid. I finally decided I can’t let the people who created me dictate my self-worth. I respect them where I can (difficult in my case, so I try to just understand what screwed them up so badly), then try to remember that they might have created my body, but I became responsible for creating mySELF many years ago.

On another note: When I was young, weekends started n Thursday (OK, sometimes Wednesdays). In my experience, your generation often stays in until Friday or Saturday. Hope you have some special plans to celebrate your birthday. That seems weird to say given the site purpose, but — HEY — you brought it up!