Happy Birthday, Annie, and many more!

Happy Birthday. Your post choked me up a bit, as I am turning 50 in a few weeks and have had many of these same thoughts. I think the milestone birthdays can be tough, even though I think about these things more often than just at birthdays. I hope you have a lovely, if bittersweet, day.

Happy Birthday, Annie!

I think it's a sign of marked maturity when one stops and truly contemplates life on one's birthday. I hope that what's now bittersweet will turn to joy as the day proceeds.

Have a birthday as nice as you!

About aging, it really never gets to me until I look at new trees to plant and think that I'll probably never seem them grow to maturity. :( "Should have planted that 20yrs. ago, should have...should have..." ugh. But more often than not I remain happy to enjoy everything else right now.

60 was such a hard one! - but I am grateful for each passing day.

I too think about not seeing my grandchildren's weddings, being about 80 when they graduate high school, etc., etc., but I am surely enjoying every minute of every day. Enjoy the day!!!

Happy Birthday Annie!

Getting older is indeed a sobering thought. I'm two and a half years ahead of you Annie. I am so grateful for my years and look forward to the time I have left.

Happy Birthday, Annie! DH turns 60yo end of year and, so far, he sees it as the beginning of the end. His body doesn't feel as well as it used to. Various parts have required surgeries the past five years. He is always in pain of some sort, but doesn't require or take medication(s). I'm hoping he snaps out of it sooner than later. He isn't showing signs of depression (yet) and he is grateful, just as you are, but...

I've always thought of age as just a number, but only four more years will get me to the point his is now. My sister also turns 60yo this year, and she is a big numbers gal. She doesn't like to hear it, so I remind her often. That's what little sisters are for!

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Allison

Happy Birthday Annie! These milestone birthdays are somewhat hard sometimes aren't they? Your post brought a tear to my eye too.

If nothing else, big days do give us pause for reflection, and one hopes, gratitude for a life well-lived. My DD turned 45 yesterday and I think it hit her a little hard too for several reasons. I'm on the downhill side of 67; my DM passed away just shy of her 69th birthday so it scares me a little bit as I get closer to that age. She had cancer, and was in fairly good health up to then but I think she ignored some early signs. I hope that by being more active, eating healthier and being positive I can live to enjoy many more years, especially to see our grandkids grow into young adults.

Happy Birthday. Hope you have a wonderful day to remember. I did something VERY special for my 60th year ...took two months to do it LOL...so I never forget it and neither does my family. The best thing about my 65th is the birthday check I now get every single month !! Have a great day ...and I am glad to be one of those that has been lucky enough to meet you and your special DH. c

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Annie! And don't worry -- 60 is the new 40. And since 40 is the new 25, you're still in the first blush of youth.

Happy Birthday! I hope your day is wonderful. :)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and reflections ... so much resonates as I'll be hitting 50 in a few years.

Happy Birthday, Annie. You'll be surprised how quickly you get over feeling that way. (The mournful part, I mean. I hope the gratitude continues for you. I think it will.)

Happy Birthday Annie! Hope you have a great day!

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday and I hope you have a great day with valued friends and family.

Happy birthday, kiddo.

I love the way you've described your feelings, we all can relate to that. I wish you many many years of continuing good health and serenity.

Happy Birthday Anne. Sixty was hard for me too, made me sad, I didnt want to celebrate it, but when I turned 62 just recently my feelings change and I was more happy to be alive and healthy than sad to be 62!

Happy birthday, Annie, I love what you wrote. I turn 61 next week. It gets easier to face once you're past the big number, and I'm doing now what I did after I turned 50 -- keep celebrating, but stop counting.

Happy Birthday Annie! The one bad thing about getting older is how time goes by so much faster. So, we have to fully enjoy it all while here. I just had the best time with someone I've known since I was a tween. I've been reflecting on that for the last few days because if you make the effort... those whom you enjoy keep you young. Age doesn't matter. I like your thought of the "magical people".

Best wishes for a happy birthday!

The decade milestones certainly do get us to stop, think and reflect.

Now that you have done that, enjoy your special day!

Happy Birthday Annie! I am so happy to read your sentiments about this birthday, I am coming up on the same one this August. My view of birthdays has always been that the celebrants should be thanking their parents and other significant figures in their lives for helping make it what it is at each stage. I find the current birthday madness (tiaras, multiple parties, etc.) baffling. Gratitude is a lovely and modest response to a birthday, and I salute you for it!

Happy Birthday from me too, Annie_D. Your presence on this forum over the years has been delightful. Hope you grace us with your presence for many more years.

So Annie turns 60, my grandbaby turns 1 tomorrow, new grandbaby due in July. Time to cue Sinatra:

One day you turn around and it's summer
Next day you turn around and it's fall
And the springs and the winters of a lifetime
Whatever happened to them all?

As a man who has always had the wand'ring ways
Now I'm reaching back for yesterdays
'Til a long-forgotten love appears
And I find that I'm sighing softly as I near
September, the warm September of my years

As I man who has never paused at wishing wells
Now I'm watching children's carousels
And their laughter's music to my ears
And I find that I'm smiling gently as I near
September, the warm September of my years

The golden warm September of my years

Thank you all for the lovely, funny, touching and thoughtful birthday wishes! I have enjoyed and appreciated every one.

I was sitting outside and enjoying the lovely weather and thinking back to how nice it would be to be 30 again...then wondering if in the future I will be looking back and wishing I was 60 again. The paradox. While I'm older right this second than I've ever been, I'm also younger than I will ever be again...

And wondering why 59+1 sounds so much younger than 60...

Happy Birthday! And many many more!

I have never had a problem facing birthdays when I was turning 40, 50 60 but when I turned 70 this year that all changed. I feel really really old and my body seems to be falling apart. I understand your conflicting feelings as I have them also. Happy birthday and continue to enjoy happy days.

Happy birthday Annie!

Happy Birthday! Hope you have a chance to relax and enjoy yourself.

Happy Birthday Annie !! I understand your reflections, and agree, I turned 64 in February, my mother's age. yikes I say !! most of our friends are older than we are. I am grateful for every day and special occasions also, and I take inventory of my luck. Buy that special purse, do crazy things, YOLO !!!

Happy Birthday, Annie! I loved your reflections and thank you for sharing them. Even though I only know you through this forum, it is obvious to me that you are a very wise woman.

Happy Birthday. Thank you for the touching post.

Happy Birthday Annie!

I am exactly one year and 4 days older than my DH, and that's a good thing when it comes to birthdays. He tends toward Irish melancholy when a decade BD approaches and I provide the assurance of "Hey, look, no worries, I've already done this." But I do understand how milestone birthdays evoke reflection.

I turned 60 last summer and it was less alarming than surprising. I expected to feel and look a lot older. I don't know if it is really the new 40, but it's definitely not OLD.

Thanks for sharing and hope you're enjoying a special day!

I hope it was a good day for you. 60 is the new 30! From all of your posts I have read you seem like such a sweet, kind, caring person. My best wishes for you.

Happy Birthday! Everyday you wake up in your right mind and can get out of bed is a good day!

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I know I posted already but DH wanted me to tell you his best wishes also...he really enjoyed sitting with your DH in NYC and talking. DH will be 69 on May 10...he always says " every day above ground " !! So you are here....now...you know...namaste.

( I just found this and wanted to add it : The gesture Namaste represents the belief that there is a Divine spark within each of us that is located in the heart chakra. The gesture is an acknowledgment of the soul in one by the soul in another

Perfect for you...Happy Birth....day. c

Thanks, tr and do tell dh thanks and namaste!

Happy birthday! Today is my oldest brother's birthday. We are 16 years apart. He is 69 today.

"The decade milestones certainly do get us to stop, think and reflect."

I have always cherished and respected 'zero' birthdays. For me, they are a day to reflect on where I was on past decade milestones, where I may be in the future...I'll turn 60 in less than 2 years and I hope it is a happy introspective day; all my other zeroes have been. Truly life has always seemed brighter every decade for me although there are of course sorrows. Maybe it affects my outlook that my own mother never saw her 43rd birthday. I'm so grateful for every one I can celebrate.

Happy birthday Annie, and hope the bright days outshine the dark for you always!

What lovely thoughts Annie. It's not my birthday but your post reminds me that I let too many days slip by without pausing to reflect on how our lives evolve with the passage of time. I've allowed myself to get caught up in everyday routines and deadlines.

Thank you for taking the time today to share these sentiments. I hope your special day brings you much happiness and contentment.

Hope it's been a good day!

Happy Birthday!!!!!! Hope it was a good one!

Happy Birthday Annie. It's always been sobering for me hitting each decade year. Especially so last year when I hit 70. Seventy!! It was just another day, but I was officially elderly. It was me, and yet it was someone else. The whole year was weird, not depressing, just WTF? 70? Now that I'm 71 the shock has worn off.

You'll be fine. Enjoy.

And don't forget to ask for the senior discount wherever you go. You've earned it.

Happy Birthday!! Make this year (and every year) one to fondly remember.

happy birthday annie!

Happy Birthday - live in the moment, not in fear of what might lie ahead.

Happy birthday Annie! I look at age as a state of mind, not a number. If you think younger you become younger~my 3 dd's taught me this 'lesson'. Sure, you can't take back that year of your birth, but it doesn't need to dictate your thinking. One example, women over 50 shouldn't have long hair~what's with that? Long hair can hide a multitude of sins, a saging jaw and crape-y neck, for example. When you hear 'you shouldn't', do it anyway , and don't let that 'age thing' stand in your way. I'm 73, but sure don't think of myself as being old, and maybe even at 83 won't recognize what it's 'supposed to look like'. Have a wonderful day!