BigDog Speaks

Unfortunately birthdays are a fact of life. As a kid, you can't wait for it to come around, you look forward to adding another year, so you will be older. Then you have milestones, 21 and you can drink legally in a bar and if you get carded, the ID you show will be real.

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After that birthdays become party nights and are more or less enjoyed until the 30th, this one gives us pause and we wonder, "How the heck did this happen?" The years pass faster and before you even know it you've turned 40. Damn! Now, the old life scale really speeds up, 50 is a passing nightmare and before you even have a chance to think, you get an offer for AARP and senior discounts. You see the offers and your first thought is it must be a mistake, you can't possibly be that old. Yah, right. The years don't slow down any, they go by faster and faster. The only possible secret to all this is to live today and live well, tomorrows may not be there. Celebrate LIFE, and enjoy your birthdays, have enough of them and they become bragging rights!!!!