Today is my birthday!

It would seem like the perfect day to smile, accept congratulations and feel especially needed. But to be honest, today I don't feel like pomp and circumstance. I just don't want to be alone.

Sometimes, it's on days like these that you feel especially keenly how important it is to have warmth nearby... Not candles on a cake, but another person. Someone to look you in the eye and quietly say "I'm glad you exist".

I don't dream of parties all night long. I just want a sincere presence. Someone who will share this day with me, who will raise a glass to us, to life, to feelings.

Perhaps age makes us a little more sentimental, or maybe it's just that with age you begin to understand that happiness isn't noise and glitter, but the warmth of being close. And today I feel that especially.

Honey, how do you usually spend your birthday? In company? In silence? On a desert island? :)