Dun, nun nun nun nun nun..They say its your birthday!

Following John Fletcher's lead, I decided to look up significant events that happened in history on this day that is the day of my birth.  

Unfortunately, it seems like the only positive event that happened on the 23 of October throughout history is my birth.

Other historical happenings on the 23 of October are as follows:

42 B.C. Brutus from Julius Caeser assassination fame, committed suicide.

1864 Yankee and Rebel armies fought at the Battle of Westport

1989 Gas leek at a plastics factory kill 23 people

2002 700 people are held hostage in  Moscow theatre during a sold-out performance of the musical Nord Ost

2012  I feel down off of my high heels in the campus parking lot and scraped my knee hard.

All day I have been reflecting on how birthdays change as a person gets older.

When we are little, if we are lucky,  we are the center of attention on our day of birth.  Parents, friends and family shower you with love and gifts. Teachers make the class sing happy birthday to you and your mom brings cake to the class.

Getting older means that birthday celebrations become more significant and the celebrations can get longer.  Instead of 1 party on the day of your birth, you have a week long celebration with parties and drinking and more parties.

Now as I turn 26 I am not that much wiser than I was at 25 but I do realize that my birthday while special and significant is also just another day for the rest of the world.  I still have to go to work, and unfortunate things like falling down in the parking lot can still happen to the birthday girl.  I am so grateful for all of my birthday well wishers and feeling so much love from so many people even though I am far away from so many loved ones.  I am also grateful for new loved ones who took the time to stop and wish me a happy birthday, bring me chocolate cake from Whole Foods, eat brie calzone and see an "interesting" play with me this evening.

I feel very loved this evening. Happy birthday to me!