Happy Birthday to Me

Another year starts and another birthday celebrated. For me holidays season doesn't end until January sixth (my birthday is on the fifth and my wife's is on the sixth). Even though my birthday is very close to the new year, I have always found that my reflections for the past year being so different.
   For me when it comes to new year my reflections are more of events and physical planing and achievements. On the other hand birthdays are more internal, more of my physical and emotional well being. It's more of that general sense of searching for happiness and worries of getting old. It's that time to reminisce of the younger days, things that you could do easily but now are much harder to do. The childhood days of no responsibilities( mainly financial,and family). The dreams I use to have, of where I will be at this age, the dreams that now have to be adjusted to match the reality.
   Things I dream of now are much different from back in the days. The dreams are no longer the selfish personal oriented. I have a wife and daughter and my dreams are more of there happiness and what I could do to make them happier. Some call that being a grown up but I call that maturity. People grow older each day but not everyone one reach maturity.
For my birthday this year my reflections are more into counting my blessings and have a chuckle on those stupid things I have done in my past, dream of tangible success and day dream of impossible and just have fun with all of it. Happy Birthday to Me.

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