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Nov. 18th, 2003 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A post by
ladyjestyr reminded me of a reason why I'm a little melancholy and distracted at the moment. Just under a fortnight ago my 32nd birthday slipped past in a quiet and subdued fashion. My mum, wife and in-laws provided the requisite presents, including work shirts and whisky (I'm a grown-up now...) and I hit the cinema with Lorna and her ex-flatmate to see Finding Nemo. And that was it. My work colleagues were completely unaware of it. Only a couple of friends sent cards.
The worst thing was that I didn't care. It's a bit like Christmas, I suppose. You just grow out of the magic of it after a certain age. A quiet, unnoticed birthday was fine with me.
Still, birthdays do seem to generate a bout of life analysis in me, which is happening right now. I wonder what will come out of it?
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The worst thing was that I didn't care. It's a bit like Christmas, I suppose. You just grow out of the magic of it after a certain age. A quiet, unnoticed birthday was fine with me.
Still, birthdays do seem to generate a bout of life analysis in me, which is happening right now. I wonder what will come out of it?
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Date: 2003-11-18 09:34 am (UTC)Well from where I'm standing you're doing okay. You're happily married, you are working, you have some good fiction under your belt, you have your faith etc.
In fact the only thing I can see that's wrong with your life is the long hours you work which I couldn't personally handle.
Apart from that it seems all good in the Tinworth camp
- Pat yourself on the back, you're doing well in this crazy game we call 'life'.
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Date: 2003-11-18 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-18 01:14 pm (UTC)I'm hoping I have kids at some point in the near future or find friends with fun kids to hang out with. Really, the birthdays and halloweens and so on... it's hard to enjoy them as an adult, except through kids, IMO.
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Date: 2003-11-18 02:58 pm (UTC)(Yes, my paternal instincts are raging at the moment. Lorna has, quite sensibly, suggested we wait a few years, though.)
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Date: 2003-11-18 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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