Remember how cool birthdays were from seven to ten or eleven? Yeah well they are not like that at 42! My wife did re-enable my birthday notification in my facebook profile (which I had purposefully disabled) so when I got home from work yesterday I was floored by all the birthday wishes. I must have had well over 50 to respond too and I did. I responded to each one. It was the pick me up I needed and I appreciated each one. Here’s a good one.

“HaPpY BiRtHdAy Bill…we all are blessed through the gift of your life — enjoy YOUR day as much as we alll enjoy YOU!! “

Now if that doesn’t pull you out of a little pity party your having with yourself then you probably need help. I don’t need help. I had to rethink the whole birthday/getting older thing after the overwhelming facebook response.

So what did I learn from yesterday. Your life impacts others whether you know it or not. Whoever you see in the mirror at that particular slice of time does not reflect what others see and sometimes it doesn’t reflect who you really are at all. Our sunshine may fade on the outside as time marches on but that internal light can burn brighter and shine through.