Well I tell you what, today is my birthday and I’ve never looked, felt, or been this old before. My own mortality is staring me in the face. It certainly makes you look back and reconsider your life. Why did I work so hard? Why didn’t I take another helping of meat? Life is too short to sacrifice your happiness on things that profiteth little!!
According to my younger sister, I am very old. When the thought struck me a few days ago, I called her up and happily told her she was almost 30. She said, “At least I’ll be 30 and SKINNY!” Somehow I think there was a hidden meaning there, but I haven’t figured it out yet.
After all, I’m not fat. Here, just look at this picture of me:
And those pants used to fit!
Back to the accusation of being old, at church last Sunday an elderly lady asked me how old I was going to be. I told her 32. She has a birthday too this week, and she said, “Well, I’m going to be 84!”
So see, maybe I do have a few good days left.
Actually, I didn’t work that hard and I did take that second helping of meat.
Ok ok, that third helping.
11 Responses
September 5th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Happy birthday, Tom!
And many happy returns.
And a life full of good fruit.
God bless you with the richness of Jesus and fulness of the Spirit.
Amen.
September 5th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Yeah, I wish the Photoshop Diet Plan worked for me…. I did use it to make my suit fit better in a quartet picture, once, though.
Happy Birthday, Tom! I am glad I am not the only one going through an early midlife crisis. Everyone thought I was silly, but mortality became a real thing to face.
BTW, after a long, unexplainable, inexcusable absence, Ten Cent’s Worth should have a new post soon. Lots of pictures.
September 5th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Happy Birthday!!! Hope it’s a good one!
September 5th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
Please!! Put on a picture of how you look now, that one brings back scary memories. Besides, I can’t make fun of how fat you are on this picture!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLD MAN!!!!
September 5th, 2006 at 11:07 pm
Just wait till that first little addition to the family shows up! Then you will really start feeling older. Perhaps that is why you are holding off on that? Just thinking a bit…. LOL
September 6th, 2006 at 1:40 am
I’m definitely siding with Jean here. :-)
September 6th, 2006 at 8:10 am
A happy birthday to you…
At least it was three helpings of meat and not Peanut Butter Pie or some other form of the everlasting delight we call desert…
September 6th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Heh heh…happy birthday!!
September 6th, 2006 at 9:19 am
My own mortality is staring me in the face.
Click my modified name for what precedes this statement: “Because my life here has the duration of steam off cooking water.”
September 6th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Brother Tom, Aging is nothing to to get concerned with. With your heritage, you only get better with age. Also, there is nothing wrong with having a bubble in the middle, it only means you are balanced, and that Jewel has more of you to love. Just don’t let it get to the point that she needs help in giving you a hug, that would be to much. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOUNG MAN!!!!!
September 14th, 2006 at 1:46 am
Welcome to my age. And I agree with Jean.