{"id":2506,"date":"2012-04-02T14:17:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abitcoquettish.wordpress.com\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2015-08-16T23:57:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T23:57:36","slug":"birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"All the World is a Birthday Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2014George Harrison<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;d be safe to say that nearly everyone else I know (even those acquaintances you didn&#8217;t think actually\u00a0<em>knew\u00a0<\/em>you\u2014I blame the ever omniscient Facebook) seems to know when my birthday is <em>except me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s a good thing; it means one less thing for me to remember. More room in the brain for things like, say, accounting <em><a href=\"http:\/\/french.about.com\/library\/vocab\/bl-babytalk.htm\" target=\"_blank\">caca<\/a><\/em> come exams. It works out fabulously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I find it such a vain thing to indulge in birthdays. <strong>We celebrate our existence everyday\u2014<\/strong>or <em>should<\/em>, rather; too many people simply go about their daily lives without ambitions or excitement when they should be <em>living<\/em>. I love Monday mornings. I love Wednesdays. Tuesday nights. Lazy Sunday afternoons, just in time for brunch. <strong>Birthdays have lost their charm for me around high school\u2014who am I to parade around in a tiara*?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Humor me. I love a little more attention as much as the next human being, but to claim an\u00a0<em>entire<\/em> day for me, myself, and I? I&#8217;m hardly deserving of it. It&#8217;s not to say I won&#8217;t appreciate the extra effort someone puts out for me on the big B-Day. I just don&#8217;t deserve it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BUT here&#8217;s the catch. There always is a\u00a0<em>but clause<\/em>. This is the year I shed the horrible\u00a0<em>-teen <\/em>suffix. <strong>One year makes all the difference; with 20 comes more credibility and respect.<\/strong> I refuse to believe that wisdom comes with age (nothing is ever so black and white), but society always will; the youth are undermined, overlooked. Sometimes for good reason, but more often than not, <em>not<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is a fond good-bye to the era of the teens. No tears, nothing bittersweet. You showed me a good time, you taught me well.<strong> I lived, learned, and danced my way through to this day, <\/strong><em><strong>now<\/strong>.<\/em> Open arms to welcome the big two-oh. With the best of girlfriends, and dressed to kill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s to the last few days of <em>nineteen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. \u00a0 . \u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">x<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Editor&#8217;s Asides:\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">*If a diamond one, however, I should hardly object.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">{images<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/108508672242021642\/\" target=\"_blank\"> via<\/a>}<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.\u201d \u2014George Harrison It&#8217;d be safe to say that nearly everyone else I know (even those acquaintances you didn&#8217;t think actually\u00a0knew\u00a0you\u2014I blame the ever omniscient Facebook) seems to know when my birthday is except me. 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