Dear Dr. Sadie,
I am having a birthday soon. It's not a milestone birthday or anything, but I find myself feeling old, depressed and generally sad about aging. What can I do to shake the birtday blues?
- Feeling Older but not Wiser
Maybe you should try to not feel sad. Sometimes you forget how sad you are when you're having a lot of fun.
If you want to have a good birthday, you should have a lot of fun. You could decorate a lot of placemats and have a fancy party. I'm getting older, too, and I like big, boomy birthdays. A "boomy" birthday is big and exciting. You could have fireworks and get crazy. That sounds fun to me.
