Day of Birth
Happy Birthday to me! Yep, today is the big day and I’m looking forward to receiving a pile of Facebook wall posts as a gift. (In fact, those have already started to roll in.) I shall do my best to respond to them all… but if you have had a birthday whilst on Facebook you know it can be an intimidating proposition.
I know there are people out there that view their birthdays as a major event. I’ll tell you right now: I’ve never really done that. This birthday in particular has snuck up on me and with a busy schedule of performing and preparing for Tuesdays With Morrie in under two weeks (have you got your tickets yet?) I won’t even really get a party in.
As with most North Americans the time surrounding my birthday is filled with questions about gifts. I consider myself very lucky; having want or need of very few material things. (But thanks in advance for the socks, Mom!) So these questions are tough to answer. When I think about the things that make me smile I am far more focused on experiences. Events that give an audience (even an audience of one) a sense of joy. The more remarkable, the better. I suppose this is what I see as the true value of entertainment, and the reason that I do what I do.
A few weeks back (maybe going on a couple of months now) my friend Cory Mack shared this YouTube video with me and it is a perfect example of what I am talking about. Imagine being one of the people to witness this event as it happened. How could you not help but smile for the rest of your day? I just watched the video for the up-teenth time and I know that’s how I’ll spend the rest of my birthday.
