Happy Birthday, OJ!

[Yoshi Boo 118]

You're a truly kind person and I'm glad to know you on the forums.

Happy birthday, and have a fantastic day!

[l.m]

❤

[Raiyuuni]

Happy birthday!!

[~Yuri]

happy birthday fellow UR <3

[Oranjui]

aw that's sweet <3

thank <3

[Karyete]

happy birthday fellow UR <3

what he said, happy birthday ye glorious beverage

[-BY]

Happy Birthday, buddy. ^^

[Harmless]

happy burfdai and lots of vitamin c

[Vajrin]

happy birthday!

[Oranjui]

This is going to be a little bit of a weird post and I'm half-hijacking a thread made for me or something? But anyway. On a whim I decided that since New Years feels so arbitrary to me, maybe it's better for me to start doing New Years resolutions on my birthday instead of on January 1st, since my own age is a little more personally significant than the age of the Gregorian calendar, even though birthdays themselves don't really feel all that important to me either. Okay I'm already rambling, all this dumb "le holidays are a useless social construct" stuff is besides the point.

So, to get to said point, thanks for all your wishes and puns. I had a pretty good birthday. I think my goal for the next year is going to be to read more. And by more, I mean a ♥♥♥♥ ton more, like maybe 1 book-per-week level, as compared to the maybe 1 book every 1-2 months pace I've been going at for the past few years, which was itself mainly dependent on school assignments and not very independent/personal. I've found a lot of interesting stuff lately and I just want to make it more of a habit I guess, since there are so many proven benefits to reading a lot anyway. Also, I think I said this somewhere on the forums at one point, but we started doing a reading log thing for the last month or two of the year in my English class, and after seeing that I only read like 60 pages in my first two weeks combined, my teacher was kinda like, really, you can do better than that bruh. I tried to use the excuse of not having free time, but she replied to that by telling me that nobody has free time, especially busy high schoolers and college students, so by saying that you're going to do something in your free time, that's essentially a death sentence for whatever it is you wanted to do. Even though that's probably not original advice, it kind of inspired me to start being a more active reader. And also a little more physically active but that's a different story and more of a secondary goal for me right now because I'm not super concerned about that yet.

Maybe I should have posted this in a different thread. Iunno. I guess it doesn't really matter all that much at the end of the day, anyway (haha good one OJ).