I turned 42 today, and I guess I've been waiting most of my life to make a Hitchhiker's Guide reference on my birthday. And this is finally the time to do so!
How did I celebrate my birthday? Well, we started big over the weekend. But it's still a workweek and a mid-week birthday doesn't really open a lot of doors for celebrating. So we've scheduled the bulk of our celebratory activities for the coming weekend as well.
For today, I made sure to order my own keto cake so Tobie and I could do the whole birthday candle-blowing at midnight. Tobie made sure to invite our friend and neighbor to join us for cake, which was a nice surprise. And we even squeezed in time to play a round of Earth before bed. The rest of today was pretty normal since I still clocked in for work and had a lot of work to do. There were birthday greetings at the office and they even sent another keto cake to add to our collection so that was fun. But we didn't do anything crazy different today - I even cooked lunch and Tobie cooked dinner. It was that sort of a day.
The only thing truly different about today was all the birthday greetings on social media and other messaging platforms. That's always nice because sometimes the most unexpected people will reach out and wish you well.
But you know, I'm super thankful. Today was a reflection of my life as a whole and I really do like my life now. There will always be things that we wish would be better - I still need to lose weight and we need to figure out how we're going to organize all of our stuff when we move and whatever else. All that stuff will always be a consideration.
Tobie and I live a great life together. We celebrate a lot of the same things and we spend most of our time together and enjoy almost every minute of it. We share a love for particular TV shows, playing tabletop RPGs, and playing board games. But we also celebrate each other's interests that we don't necessarily share and we afford one another the time and space needed to celebrate those other hobbies. And that's a special kind of gift - Tobie and I know how to do solo activities together. We're content to just share space and do our respective things and feel perfectly content with that.
I have a great relationship with my family. I get to see my parents regularly and even get to play board games with my dad and my brother. My regular trips to Singapore mean that I get to spend time with my sister and her husband and of course the boys. I'm a full-fledged guncle who just achieved "they know my name" status and I really, really love being an uncle. I even feel a lot closer to Tobie's family, so that's good too and those relationships are only going to strengthen in the coming year.
I love my job and the company that we've created. And I love working on the business even more than working within it if you catch my drift. We've put so much work into being a lot more deliberate about things and I trust that it'll pay off in time and result in a much stronger company and hopefully happier people as well. And that's really fulfilling work - the kind of work that will keep me going for quite some time.
And, of course, I love our friends. We have our board game friends, our RPG friends, our O Bar friends, and the fun overlaps across the different groups. And beyond the people who join us for our different activities, there are the special groups like our actual O Bar family itself. That's why the rest of my birthday celebrations are going to involve O Bar as it's such an important part of our lives.
I may not have all the answers in life - I may not even know what all the questions are. But I recognize that I'm in a good place and I celebrate that more than anything else. 42 is a good enough number and I'll continue to do my best to live my best life and make things awesome for those around me. It's the least that we can do to try and make this world even just a little bit better.
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