💃💃 It’s My Birthday💃💃💃

Today at exactly 2:14 pm I will turn 23. I personally feel very indifferent to birthdays because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ age. The only things I celebrate about the sun bestowing upon me another year to weird out its precious earth are the things I’ve learned and made of myself since well, the sun last bestowed upon me another year to weird out its precious earth. I use it to track my growth and predict my trajectory for the next annum. Like any other famous person. How? Here’s some rubrics for that:

  • Have you progressed as a person? Like at all? Level with me here.
  • Have you done anything productive? Have you made your contribution to the fall of capitalism? How about feminism? Have you done your part in the queer agenda? How many converts for the church of memes have you-
  • Are you close to attaining your True And Final Form™? How close? Do you have a guesstimate for that?
  • Are you reaching your daily sinning quota?
  • How much human knowledge have you absorbed through the Internet that is actually useful and has practical applications in real life?
  • What do you mean you’re not thinking about your exes anymore?

If I answer positively to most of that, I mark the year as a constructive success. Rinse, dry and repeat until I finally kick the bucket and then my good pals will have to bury me in a fancy mushroom death suit in the middle of the prettiest flower garden/fairy forest they can find. Or you know, freeze me until aliens arrive. Turn me into a diamond to pay for my country’s debts. Or theirs. Maybe give me a nice Viking’s funeral and then sprinkle my ashes all over my enemy’s cupcakes? Haha I’m totally not picky**

The year is still running but I’m optimistic because I am in a more solid place now than I was since my last birthday. I’ve graduated college, debt-free. Made new friends (lots of ‘em!), reconciled with old ones. Dealt with debilitating parts of myself (still dealing) and came out- coming out rad as heck. I have gone on a date. I have gotten my first tech gig after 4 months of studying design and web engineering on my own. Maybe this time I’ll finally get to travel across the world to meet the friends I so fucking love with my whole entire being. Maybe I’ll make a film, do the black and white photography series I’ve been wanting to do. Be a musician. Write a novel. Start a podcast. Go on a museum crawl. Do a less pasty version of Julie and Julia and eat my weight. Maybe found that Art+Tech B-Corp I’m dreaming of sooner than imagined. I don’t know. But that’s the beauty of it.

I can always find out.

I’ve got a rockin support group who never quits on me even when I want to quit on myself. And also, I have me. The biggest risktaker and the most hardcore patient person I have ever known.

🎉 So cheers! Happy birthday. 🎂

🏆 You kick ass. 🏆