3 days after - Twenty-two

My dear friend and fellow ShinyHappyVloggyPerson is turning twenty-two today. I don't know about anyone else, but twenty-two seemed like a bit of a letdown after twenty-one. I mean, think about it: twenty-one's a milestone birthday. You get to buy alcohol now! A scant three years earlier, you were given the power to vote and buy nicotine. The year before that, to see R-rated movies, And the year before that, the power to drive. (Or at least the power to get licensed. At least, that's how it used to be. I don't know how it is now.) So all these milestone ages come BAM! BAM! BAM! and ages like nineteen and twenty are mere stepping stones.

But now, twenty-two is . . . what? A stepping stone to being old?

So, for Kaitlyn's sake, I'm going to spell out all the advantages to turning twenty-two.

-Twenty-two is the first palindromic age since age eleven. (And honestly, who wants to be eleven? Unless it means going back and being accepted to Hogwarts . . .)
-Twenty-two is the age of college graduates!
-According to some cultures, twenty-two represents perfection or worldliness. There are twenty-two letters in the Hebrew alphabet and twenty-two cards in the Major Arcana of the Tarot. Speaking of . . .
-You can assign each year of your life to a Hebrew letter or a card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot. If, you know, you ever wanted to do that . . .
-There are also twenty-two paths between the Sephirot of the Jewish Kabbalah. But I don't really know anything about that, so . . .
-Um . . . "catch 22" . . . which isn't exactly uplifting, when you think about it . . .

Okay, that's all I could think of. Anyway Kaitlyn, regardless of what age you are, it's still your birthday, so enjoy it, and just be sure to think of me when I'm turning twenty-five . . .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MISS W/AKAY!!!

-Matt