Dear Humans,

Over the weekend we celebrated my daughter’s birthday. We went out to a restaurant she picked and she got a Dr. Pepper (her favorite drink) and then her first Boba Tea (which is not her favorite drink) and finally she went shopping and added to her extensive collection of oversized sweatshirts (so maybe she’ll stop stealing mine).

And it was a great evening and she felt like the center of the universe.

Which made me think what a good thing it is that we only have one birthday per year.

Because though we are the center of the universe for a small circle of people, so is every other person on our globe (or at least they deserve to be). And the vast, vast majority of people on Earth will never meet us or even think about us. That truth doesn’t make us any less special; it just means that our specialness is an unearned gift and it is not unique.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt