birthday season

there seems to be a lot of bday activity going on around this time of year! ahh but the good old bday is not so good anymore. I am really not looking foward to adding on another year. I am one year closer to what now? there is no end goal damn it. Life is 4 phases: 1 you get to be a kid and enjoy school and friends and life is pretty damn easy. 2 is life after college and the first job and optimism for a few years. 3 is the whole middle part of your life where all you do is go to work, raise a family (if applicable - not me damn it) and cry about how there is never any money. 4 is retirement and hopefully you saved enough money to actually enjoy it. Probably not though since there is no social secruity, medical costs are rising and the cost of living is always increasing and damn houses are so freaking expensive that I will still probably be paying my mortgage.
sad I know, but it is true kids.