Birthday

Today is my birthday and unlike everybody else, I just think its another day. I have being asked why I dont get particularly excited on the day the world saw Norman. So I have come up with 5 reasons why I dont get excited by birthdays (in no specific order);

1. Since I grew up poor in Jamaica, I never had the birthday party or the big gifts or hoolahs, and years when I did get gifts, I felt guilty as I knew my mom worked extra extra hard to save and buy that gift, sometimes I suppose going without lunch to buy that gift.

2. I really dont like the attention of crowds paying me homage. Dont get me wrong I like when a person tells me how great I am, or how well I did on a particular task, or I am the best :-), and I love hearing happy birthday individually; but I hate when a group of people do it all at once.

3. I never really get what I want. I usually have to lower my expectations, as it never works out for me. Take for instance this year, the only thing I asked for was a picture of the G/F in a frame, professionally done. I will not be receiving it as I know she made efforts to do it, but due to circumstances beyond her control, it never happened, and me being me, did not make a big deal of it, because I didnt want to put much pressure on her, as shes being through enough.

4. Too much money would be spent buying me gifts, gifts that I especially dont like, then I have to pretend to like it.

5. I can never celebrate my birthday with everyone I love, so it wouldnt really be all that fun.

The list might be considered 'lame', but those are my reasons, no matter how dumb it is....