I turned 51 on Sunday and it was one of my toughest birthdays that I had to experience in a very long time.
I have a very small group of friends who really don’t know when my birthday is and I do prefer it that way. It’s just another day to me as is Christmas. A day of celebration that should be celebrated daily and not just on one day.
And yet, for some reason, this birthday seemed to hit me the hardest and I have not completely figured out why. Maybe it is the fact that I am homeless, or the feeling of failure in how my business is currently situated, or just the fact that I am now over 50.
I’m sure that I will figure it out over time. Until then, the Holiday season is here and I do intended to enjoy it.
On Tuesday, I joined thousands of others to celebrate Thanksgiving at the annual HEB Fest of Giving. It was a traditional Thanksgiving dinner and it was enjoyable for what it was. Live music and other activities also made it festive. For myself and other homeless people, it was a pleasant event. For the other thousands who choose to attend for they felt that as a customer of HEB that it was owed to them, they also enjoyed it.
As for Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, I have actually turned down a couple of invitations to dinner so that I may attend a ‘bar dinner’ and bring some treats to go with the evening. This is something I have been doing for a long time now. This is one of the aspects of being a homosexual that I do support; other gays and lesbians joining together to enjoy a Holiday because their family and society has kicked them to the curb. This tradition of a ‘bar dinner’ has gone back for 30 years that I know of and I am sure many more than that. Too many from the LeTs Bi Gay community are stilled turned away from their family and thus they create a new family that includes people like themselves. After all, you may be born into a family of people you don’t like, but you are always free to create a family of people you do enjoy.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and may you enjoy your family no matter whom’s a part of it.
Life goes on…I go on.
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