I have a few thoughts aout birthdays for possible discussion!!

March 19, 2012

Hi Everyone,

I have a few thoughts about birthdays for possible discussion on this

wonderful Life Lift group that Rashelle started for us so many years ago

which does not have any direct bearing on Life Lift breathing. However,

I thought that since so many of us are having birthdays this month, or

have had birthdays this month already. that I would bring this up now.

This is something that I have thought about for many years and still

constantly think about during these last decades of my life.

My main thought about birthdays is a total mystery to me, and maybe to

some of you, too. Maybe some of you have had this same thought. That

thought is this: It has often occurred to me, and still very often

does, that when we were kids and young adults (maybe until the time of

20, or maybe even before that age) we were always very excited and

elated to reach the end of one year of our lives and to embark on the

next. We were always so excited about reaching the next year of our

lives that we had to tell everyone in creation that we were one year

older than we were the day before our birthday days. I remember that

after I had finished my 9th birthday and started my 10th, I ran all over

our house and neighborhood, yelling very excitedly, " I'm two numbers

now. " I am one of the very few people I know of who still, at the age

of nearly 61, am still excited about reaching each successive birthday

and telling everyone how old I am!!!

So, my thought (and the only other one I am going to mention here, as I

am not writing an elementary school essay) is: " What happened to most

people after they reached a certain age during their early adulthood

somewhere in their 20s? What happens that makes most people afraid of

their birthdays and of growing older? Why do they go from being excited

about " being two numbers now " when they reach their 10th birthdays to

actually dreading each new year of their lives?

I hope that nobody minds my having brought this puzzling (to me) issue

up and that you will all enjoy a discussion of this, to me, very

mysterious conundrum!!! Are any of you interested in discussion this,

even though it has absolutely nothing to do with Life Lift breathing?

Love always,

Pat

Recommended Posts