Happy Birthday
Welcome to this day. Welcome to you 2.0.
I don’t have any advice but a few perspectives that may ring true for you now or at some point in the near future.
1) (your age) is the new (age you want to feel). It’s true… not so much when used as the caption of a picture of a very obviously middle aged person in ill-fitting flower print clothing holding a way-too big cocktail. Moreover, your generation has taken much better care of itself than any before it both physically while simultaneously accessing a level of wisdom typically reserved for old-age. Essentially we can be more evolved beings in younger bodies; a second prime; a second skin*. You can effortlessly…
2) Live your best life. It’s true… not so much as when the caption of a picture of a younger person in a tiny bathing suit with a giant cocktail. Moreover, given our state of advanced youth and premature wisdom; we are able to pursue the the finest expression of ourselves; What the Greeks referred to a Eudaimonia (you-die-moh-nee-yah); which states: In essence our purpose in life is to become ourselves and in a sense grow down (not up) from the heavens and into a state of perfect human connectedness with each other and the planet which supports us. So go on with your bad self; I’ve boiled it down to 3 qualities I try to be everyday: kind, cool, and curious. I’m sure you have your own mantra; speak it every day and you will …
3) Change the world AND live forever. It’s true. When you are 25 you think you are going to live forever and all you want to do is go out and make the world better place. While this is a great attitude anytime in life. It is truly possible. The difference is for any one person the most effective way to change the world is to be positive in the smallest ways to the people right around you. You can go halfway around the world and serve in the peace corps; but there is no greater good than simple anonymous acts of kindness in our everyday life. A gentle hand; A secret touch on the heart** makes days; saves lives and creates perpetual cycles of love that last forever. Emotional energy like all other types of energy is neither created nor destroyed but merely changes forms as it is passed on for eternity.
So like the Wu Tang Clan you are forever. Also like the Wu Tang Clan you ain’t nuttin’ to f@&k wit’ and are for the children. Happy birthday. So glad you made it.
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*Widespread Panic
**Rush
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“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
― J. B. Priestley
