What Do You Want For Your Birthday?

Another birthday came and went recently.   This was the big "Five-Oh," so I thought I'd commemorate it with a blog post.  This, like all the others before it, came with another round of answering "What do you want for your birthday?"

The answer was easy to fulfill when I was a boy.  In fact, my birthday list was decided for me -- all I wanted was whatever the toy marketing folks wanted to sell.  It was just a matter of shopping and money to fulfill it.  Nevertheless, I still got underwear and the things I needed, much to my disappointment.  How ungrateful I was!

That changed after I started my own family.  Now my birthday list reads....

• A happy and healthy family, including all the pets.
• Money, just enough to live by and to donate, not so much that I become much more of an asshole than I already am.
• Green traffic lights, or none at all.
• Magical sunrises and gloriously fiery sunsets.
• The continued ability to see humor and beauty in every situation.
• A world in which people love one another for who they are and not what they can do.
• Underwear.

For the most part, I already have it all.  And underwear just requires a short trip to Walmart.

Happy birthday to you, whoever you are & whenever it is!