I'm getting 50 next Monday!

[wiseheart]

It's outrageous! Schocking! Depressing! Unbelievable!

So, cheer me up! I want, just this one time in my pretty unspectacular life, to have posted a LJ entry that gets so many comments that after a while they only appear as subtitles on the comments page.

So, give me this gift. Send people my way in cyberspace. Talk to me about everything and nothing - as long as it raises the count. lhun_dweller might remember about that dream of leaving a supermarket with a full shopping cart - just once.

Yes, it's silly, I know. But honestly, it costs you not "a weary cent", as the Germans say, and I'd like to have this so badly, just this one time. And since it's highly unlikely that I'd manage to reach my goal by posting astounding fanfic or simply interesting topics, I have to use more drastic methods.

The audience room is open till October 9, which is my 50th birthday. Come in, have a good time and talk to me!

Edit: And if you want to know what are we going to eat on the RL party on Sunday, check out my next entry. *g*

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, there are a lot of Chinese people living in Budapest - they even have their own, very big market on the other end of the city - although we still don't have our very own Chinatown yet.

But you are right. Countries are constantly losing the very thing that would make them special, and soon we'll all be a big happy planet, full of McDonalds and Starbucks. I find it somehow depressing, actually.

When I was younger, Hungary was very different. We didn't have all those things young people throw their money for nowadays, but I believe we were happier, more content. We weren't exactly poor, not after we'd moved to Hungary from Transylvania, but life wasn't always easy, and I've learned to make a difference between things that were truly necessary and things I simply wanted.

I'm grateful for that, because it enables me to the present day not to live beyond my true possibilities, not to be in debt and to lead a content life, even if I can't always have everything I fancy. Sounds old and boring, I know, but I think I've more in my life than all those young people who have everything I couldn't even dream of at the same age and are still discontent.

[cirdan-havens.livejournal.com]

WE were kind of the same when younger. Our dad was supporting 4 kids and our mom on his rather small salary so we didn't get a lot of the things we wanted. As a result, we got teased a lot at school. I would say I did have less but I really appreciate it now because I see spoiled children and get really annoyed. My mom does still complain about our spending, but it's because a fortune teller once told her that she'd die poor so she's obsessed with this idea. In truth, richness isn't measured by material wealth alone. Guess she's not so grateful for 4 kids since we aren't married and having grandkids for her.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I feel sorry for today's spoiled children, actually. They have nothing to look forward to any longer.

[cirdan-havens.livejournal.com]

They look forward to the next video game coming out.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

A sad perspective for the future. Unfortunately, I'm afraid you are right.