Birthday thoughts

Today is actually a special day but much of that will be left to the main blog on Friday to talk about such as these things do pan out.

One thing to say when it comes to any kind of annual event is for me it is more like an endless loop rather than a linear progression because for being forever a boy it is more or less the same as it ever was whatever my chronological age may be.
Thus emotionally today just feels like the tenth birthday and people sometimes say like why do you go on about things in that year I became ten and the answer was and is that's very much where what interests me and how I see things remains.
It's not that it's an identical re-run because for instance I read new books and watch new tv shows never mind things have moved from the heyday of Mud and the Bay City Rollers musically but more I engage in their modern equivalents having more in common with aspects of today's ten year olds.
Unlike then, we do use computers to view websites, play games and stream shows in ways that back then we couldn't imagine but that's just the means of doing very much the same sorts of things because beneath all that sophistication that's in modern life for all, we're still the same children with the same needs.