It's my birthday, so what.
I wish I could shout this from the roof tops, but then I feel like everyone wishing me a Happy Birthday would think I am ungrateful. Today is my birthday. I am 24 years old. I have accomplished nothing, haven't been successful in anything and am basically an epic failure. So really what is there to celebrate about, I am one year older and have
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I've lived through almost a decade of failure. Pretty much all of my twenties, which are almost over, were filled with failure.
And I've learned to not view success in the same ways that others do.
Did you see the movie "Up In the Air"? George Clooney played a guy whose job it was to fire people. And he had a line he always told them "Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's because they sat there that they were able to do it."
It's really true. All these people who have the traditional measures of success, they don't know where their life went either. They are looking at their birthdays and thinking the same things.
But YOU have grown so much, even in the short time that I've known you.
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I guess the whole not having a job thing has just been making me feel like I have nothing to offer, since no one wants to hire me. I just get to thinking back about when I was young, the expectations for me were really high. Like, I was really supposed to of made something of myself by now. Then I look at the fact that I don't even have an associates degree and I started going to college on and off in '03.
But, I guess you are right at least I have been somewhat successful in growing as a person and maturing. That is one thing I have been pretty proud of.
Anyways, we need to keep in touch more. I'd love to do something with you and Charles. I wish it wasn't winter, then we could do wine tasting again!
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