Happy birthday to me!

[aroraborealis]

"People are so perplexing. It's like they don't know that pleasure is one of the main reasons to live." -contessagrrl

It's my birthday! Happy birthday to me! But wait! Before you wish me a happy birthday, you have a mission:

I need your help celebrating my birthday. I need you to go into your day with a curious mind, and the intent to do something that gives you pleasure and/or joy, something that makes you laugh, maybe something that scares you a little but makes you happier for having done it. It doesn't have to be big! It could be watching a funny video on youtube, or stopping to smell flowers while you walk around your neighborhood, or taking a bus to a part of town you've never visited. Or it can be huge! It could be telling someone you love them with no expectation of reciprocation, or jumping off the high dive for the first time, or letting yourself love yourself.

Then, once you've done that, you can come back here and wish me a happy birthday, and if you want to tell me about how you treated yourself right today, I'd love to hear that, too.

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long bike ride wallowing in sunshine

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

I didn't even realize there was an assignment to celebrate your birthday, but I did it anyway! My sweetie and I took a long bike ride to an outdoor pool, swam in said pool, baked in the sun (we both got a little burned :-/), and biked a little bit more. Then had a delicious fruit smoothie (banana, mango, fresh pineapple juice and lime juice) before taking the water taxi back across the water and then bus home. We were POOPED, in the best possible way.

So, hooray for your birthday!