The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62863 Message #1017332
Posted By: Amergin
12-Sep-03 - 12:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Best Birthday
Subject: BS: Best Birthday
Well, I got to thinking today about my previous birthdays...and how many stand up in my mind...and I realised that only three really stand out...two because I got very precious gifts that I adore....and one because of the tragedy that occurred two years ago....but I won't talk about that...
But I do want to talk about the good two birthdays...the first one I was turning 26 that day...and was with a wonderful woman...a woman who was very dear to me...and still is...just in a different way....we're just friends now...but then I loved her and she was a bit older than me...by 17 years.
I got up that morning and came downstairs to find her holding a small wrapped package and a card....she handed them to me...and I opened the card...then unwrapped the present....it was a little black leather bound book...that I could copy my poetry and songs into...I still use it...and anyone who has met me has most likely seen me sing and read my work from it....I'll keep it always...even after it is full....
The second good one was about a year ago...I was very depressed...feeling worthless and wondering what happened to my hhopes for the future...and feeling worthless...and alone...and wanted to die...to top it off it was the first anniversary of the attacks on the WTC and the pentagon...
there was a lovely woman then from the Sydney area that I started chatting with and did not know very well...but I came to like very much...well on my bday she gave me a link to a website...and there it was...a birthday page created in my homour....she went into alot of trouble working hard for days creating a page for me....just to bring a smile on my face and make sure my birthday was a special one...and it was...a couple of weeks later she told me she had a crush on me...and well I liked this woman very very much and well had one on her too...and I told her....don't think I ever would have if she hadn't come clean first...well a year later we are engaged to be married...what a difference a year makes.