# Hot on the heels of our anniversary today I celebrate 47 trips around the sun (yes, we arranged them to be that close on purpose.)
Do I feel my age? I don't really know what 47 is supposed to feel like so I can't answer that. I certainly don't act like it.
Age has always been just a number to me. I've never been bothered by passing milestones like 30 or 40 and I don't imagine the next one in a few years will be any different.
I'm just me. A little older and, hopefully, a little wiser.
47 is just a nice number. It's one of my favorites!
Also, I love remembering every once in a while that all our life is just simply summed up by trips around the Sun. Darn.
Ha! Yeah, I think it’s going to be a good number.
@colinwalker It matters until it doesn't. After a point, mostly mid thirties I guess, it's just the birth day. Oh. And many happy returns of the day! :)
@colinwalker I think you are supposed to feel like age is just a number of trips around the sun.
@colinwalker Happy Birthday young man!
@colinwalker Happy birthday! Congratulations on the anniversary, too. Just a number or not, I hope you're taking some time to celebrate yourself. :)
@vasta @patrickrhone @khurt @amit Thank you all ?
@colinwalker I'm turning 48 later this year, and I don't feel it (for the most part). I often wonder if this is how my dad felt when he was 47, and I wonder if he now really feels being 70, or not.
@retrophisch It’s weird. I look at previous generations (especially my grandparents) and think they had a more defined notion of what age meant, what you should be doing at different life stages and how you should behave.
@colinwalker you mean like retiring because you had enough of a pension / nest egg to be able to stop working ?
It’s not even that, more general demeanour and behaviour and as it changes with age.
@colinwalker oh like removing hats when you are indoors / sit at the dining table?
@JohnPhilpin Maybe.
@colinwalker is that a Beckett quote?
@colinwalker Happy belated birthday!
Thank you sir.