Play the melody, Happy Birthday...

Oprah Winfrey said, "The great thing about getting older is getting your priorities straight. You can stop tap-dancing to everybody else's tune and focus on perfecting your own routine." I couldn't agree more - I think my mind becomes clearer as I age.

I turned 35 today. So it's "Happy Birthday to me!".

Do you know that 35 is a prime age where a woman reaches her sexual peak and sexual confidence? Oh boy, don't I wish that I am either married, engaged or at least have a steady boyfriend. Anyways...

Now that I have reached a new plataeu in my life, I should be wiser to embrace a "Play The Melody" philosophy . As Jackie Gleason, puts it, "It means don't over-arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody—and do it the simplest way possible."

Just for the benefit of your knowledge, Jackie Gleason, nicknamed "The Great One", was a rotund, Brooklyn-born comedian famous for brash humor and fast ad-libs who immortalized his Chauncey Street neighborhood in The Honeymooners, playing bus driver Ralph Kramden alongside his pal and upstairs neighbor, sewer worker Ed Norton, and their wives Alice Kramden and Trixie Norton. The foursome were later transplanted into the Stone Age on the animated cartoon series The Flintstones, the entire show being a tribute to The Honeymooners, albeit with both couples eventually having children (Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm).

Surprisingly, I don't feel any different at 35 as I was at 30. Turning the Big 3-0 was more frightening than turning Prime 35, really. Age is, indeed, just a number as you grow older and learn to accept that aging is inevitable, and is part and parcel of the deal you made with God before you were born into this world. There's no point freaking out and worrying to no end about getting older as it will only make you wrinkle faster than you should. Everybody grows old and will eventually die anyways. So, I will just enjoy my moments while I'm still alive. Just be as happy as I can be.

Live life to the fullest!

I think 35 is a good age to be, especially after reading this hilarious observations I received from a friend yesterday. This is really funny!

Read on, people!

People over 35 should be dead

Here's why ............

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets,

... and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.

(Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)

As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.

After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day.

NO CELL PHONES!!!!!

Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, videotape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

We had friends!

We went outside and found them.

We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

They were accidents. No one was to blame but us.

Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.

Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.

Horrors!

Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own.

Consequences were expected.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law.

Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them!

Congratulations!

People over 35 have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good !!!!!

People under 30 are WIMPS! (Hehehe...I didn't say that :)