Hip hip hooray: why birthdays in quarantine don't count
Last year on the first day of September I turned 30. And I found that, to put it mildly... Not so fun. Confronting. It made me rebellious. I don't feel 30, if there is really a feeling that comes with that age. I don't know how old I do feel, by the way, but not 30. No, because at 30 you are old. I had this image that when I hit the Big 3-0, I would have my whole life in order and that from your thirties everything would be the same until your retirement. Fortunately, I have come back from that a bit, and I must add that this image was formed around my twelfth year and that I just never adjusted it.
Because your life is of course not over at thirty, but I did have a whole list of what I wanted to do and achieve now that I had reached this age. What do you think I have achieved? Well, exactly NOTHING, because suddenly that coronavirus comes around the corner. The whole world locked down. Fortunately, I did go on vacation before that (to New York AND Bali so you really won't hear me complain about that), but you do lose a good half year to achieve your #lifegoals. Now I will turn 31 on September 1st (what a nothing-age that is too…) and I have mainly been indoors for the half year before because a pandemic was wildly going on.
That is why I advocate that the government does something about this. It seems to me a very good plan if this year simply counts as a non-counting year for everyone. So I am not turning 31, no, I am turning 30 again. Or I stay 30. So I can throw a I-stay-the-same-age party. And that especially applies to people who have had their birthday during this corona crisis. How lame is that? You are then sitting with your party of max three guests at one and a half meters apart… No, there is really nothing festive about that. I would even dare to go so far as to want to give people who have had their birthday during the corona times two years of leniency. For the emotional damage suffered. You just stay the same age for two years. Seems like a brilliant plan to me, right?
Because even though it is just how it is; as much as possible indoors, that one and a half meters distance, max three people visiting at home… If you are then having a birthday, that is a bit extra annoying. I am somewhat glad that I didn't turn 30 during these times, because I was already struggling with all my friends around me; I would really be a heap of misery if I were in quarantine. So props to the people who still make it a nice day. How nice if you can celebrate that day just one more time? This corona year simply doesn't count. Period. I am starting a movement with this and I hope it gets picked up. If everyone refuses to get older this year, there is nothing else to do but accept it, right? I wanna beee forever yooooung.
