I Love Birthdays I Love Getting Older, It's the Way of Life

I like being the age I am, which is less than most people my age, because unlike them I'm nowhere near it. The reason I'm happy about it is because I know I'm better off than the generation behind me. I could afford to buy a place to live as a single person, which not many up and coming Londoners can say today. I can remember when there was genuinely free speech, even of unpopular opinions, and people didn't leap en masse onto a politically correct bandwagon. Back in the day, people actually thought through issues for themselves instead of choosing one extreme or another and automatically backing everything they were told to. Climbing trees was part of a healthy, unsupervised childhood; being a tomboy didn't automatically mean you were gender-confused. And boys at junior school (horror!) used to carry knives, which they threw at trees for target practice and never dreamt of stabbing anyone. Also needing a leafblower to help out with the candles... Yah ha ha ha