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The Birthday from HELL!

  
 
Cowboy Scientist
02:17 / 07.09.07
I'm 21 today, and, for reasons beyond my control, far from my friends. Also, not in a relationship. This bums me out to no end, but I don't want to go around feeling sorry for myself; so, once again, I must turn to Barbelith in times of need.
Come, then! Say "Happy Birthday" to the stranger on the Internet!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
02:38 / 07.09.07
Perhaps you're feeling that your best years are behind you now? That every single day from here to the grave is going to represent yet another petty humiliation, and one more sliver removed from your soul?

A lot of people feel like that. And what's ahead of you really? Divorce, rehab, clawing your way to the top of an industry you fundamentally despise, only to fall at the final hurdle because of a basic lack of courage?

Still, happy birthday! Enjoy your evening. Maybe you'll never be as happy as this, ever again.
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:57 / 07.09.07
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Me and the rest of the guys down here made you a cake.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
03:08 / 07.09.07
Happy birthday random internet dude!
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
03:27 / 07.09.07
Happy Birthday!
 
 
Unencumbered
06:05 / 07.09.07
Many happy returns!
 
 
Disco is My Class War
06:35 / 07.09.07
Virgos represent! Happy birthday random dude.
 
 
Janean Patience
06:46 / 07.09.07
On my 21st birthday, I was in the grip of a massive cold. Then I went to see Schindler's List.

Happy birthday, dude!
 
 
Spaniel
07:23 / 07.09.07
Now that you're 21 you get to fly spaceships and shoot bazookas so it's not all bad.
 
 
Mistoffelees
07:59 / 07.09.07
Happy Birthday, Heat Vision!

You share your birthday with Grandma Moses, Michael Emerson (the creepy guy from LOST), Buddy Holly, Dario Argento (!), Chrissie Hynde, Indio Falconer Downey (Son of Robert Downey Jr.) and Shannon Elizabeth.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
09:56 / 07.09.07
Happy birthday. I'm sure there'll be friends and love-bunnies a-plenty the minute you step back into civilisation.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
10:09 / 07.09.07
I had a lousy 21st birthday as well - I'd just been dumped, had gone home to recuperate, parents were at work, so spent the day wandering around Southsea on my own feeling desolate. Things have improved considerably since! Happy birthday and may they do so for you also.
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
10:11 / 07.09.07
Hey, it's my birthday tomorrow! Hail, fellow Virgo and happy brthday.
 
 
Spaniel
10:18 / 07.09.07
Thinking about it, I was still reeling from being dumped by a gf a month before my 21st birthday, and I was a fresher, an experience that I didn't enjoy at all.

Empathy vibes.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
14:25 / 07.09.07
Have a good 07-sep-07 birthday, random imaginary dude!
 
 
Ticker
14:44 / 07.09.07
happy b-day RID!

remember, the whole month is really your birthday.
 
 
This Sunday
14:58 / 07.09.07
Happy birthday!

Take in the pleasanter side of Hell, though. Learn to enjoy the myriad options of hot coals and ridiculous temptations all around you.

I hear Hell's actually a pretty decent place for a lot stuff. Meet people with interesting stories all the time, and once you're damned it's pretty hard to really put your heart into condemning or judging anybody else. Plus, nobody really minds if you duck out with somebody halfway through a party. Unless it's on that nobody-touches wing, Dante went on about for a bit. Be kind and let them at least have a voyeuristic, vicarious thrill.

Barbelith? Also good for birthdays. And meeting people with interesting stories. And there's cake.

Learn to enjoy cake. If you already enjoy cake, tell yourself you need to relearn or train to enjoy it better. And do so. Again.

And happies to all y'all having b-days soon, just a bit ago, or sometime in the eventual.
 
 
Dead Megatron
15:37 / 07.09.07
Happy birthday, random virtual guy. You were born at the same day as my country become independent (minus a century and a half, give or take), so yay us!

I just realize I have absolutely no recollection of what I was doing in my 21st birthday.

Probably a good thing.
 
 
grant
15:40 / 07.09.07
I can't remember either.

What year was that? Doesn't matter.
 
 
Ticker
16:59 / 07.09.07
I suspect there was booze but as it had already been there it probably wasn't the main focus. there's a high probability mine happened in boston but I can't be sure.
 
 
Feverfew
17:34 / 07.09.07
Hey, Stranger on the Internet. Happy Birthday, and don't be hellish.
 
 
Cowboy Scientist
00:05 / 08.09.07
Thanks everybody for posting! My starting this therad has given an answer to the age-old equation: Drunk + Sad + Posting on Barbelith = NOT GOOD! Should not do it again.

Well, actually, Grandma, it's pretty much the opposite of that, I feel I've done pretty much nothing of worth in the last 20 years, and that in some ways I have fallen behind compared to other people my age. I think I'm having a one-fourth-life crisis. Still: HEY! CAKE!

Also, Venger, that's one AMAZINGLY ACCURATE representation of what's going on over here.

Again, thanks, to all you random internet guys and gals for cheering me up! IMAGINARY CAKE FOR EVERYBODY!
As for me; well, I'm off to get drunk and sad so I can keep posting.
 
  
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