As time goes by, I just “celebrated” my 36th birthday
with my family in a fancy restaurant and a bunch of my friends on Facebook a
few days ago. Believe it or not, I have 810 friends on Facebook, approximately 135
out of whom left a comment for birthday greeting on my FrontPage. To
demonstrate my politeness and a gesture of life-long friendship, I pushed the “LIKE”
bottom and simply replied to each comment, which took me another two
hours.
時光流逝，幾天前我和家人以及一群在Facebook上的好友慶祝36周年生日。信不信由你，在Facebook上我有810個朋友，當中大約135人在我的臉書上留下祝生日快樂的訊息。為了展現禮節和終身友誼，我在每個訊息上”按讚
，並做簡單回應，這又花了我另外兩個小時。
Needless to say, however, the older I grow, the less interesting and
willing for me to “celebrate” my birthday, let alone the fact that 135 people assembled
to remind me that it’s the time AGAIN. Don’t get it wrong. I do enjoy the
feeling of being concerned, but the feeling of getting older and older is always
getting sadder and sadder. Most of the time people will not gather to send
greetings for specific reasons, especially for a middle-aged, rug-faced and
potato-shaped man(potato, a new nickname from my dearest homeroom students),and
then my birthday is a perfect reason.
然而無庸置疑的，隨著年紀增長，我越來越不樂意”慶祝”我的生日，更不用說有135人聚集起來提醒我又老一歲了。別誤會，我喜歡被人關心，只不過越來越老的感覺真的是越來越糟。很少有機會一群人會聚在一起為了一個滿臉橫肉、馬鈴薯身材的中年男子傳遞祝福，而生日卻恰好是最佳理由。
Ironically, it seems everything keeps notifying me of this
heart-breaking piece of information about getting old annually. The feedback note
after the meal of the fancy restaurant is a typical example. The box I ticked
for my age has shifted from 26-30, 31-35, and now it’s 36-40, and sooner or
later it’s time for the box of 50 and more. What’s worse, it’s unlikeable, unstoppable,
and unchangeable. This irreversible aging process really gets on my nerves.
諷刺的是，似乎每件事情每年持續提醒我”變老”這個令人心碎的訊息。這家我們去餐廳的餐後問卷就是一個典型。我打勾的年齡欄位已經從26到30歲、31到35歲，到現在已經勾到36-40這個欄位，而遲早就會勾到50以上。更糟的是，這是個不被喜歡的、不會停止的、不會改變的，不能逆轉的老化事實，而這讓我抓狂。
Looking on the bright side, I can see Andy grow up as I grow old. Greeted
by one-eighth of my friends, I also can feel I am not actually alone. Nonetheless,
the only true conception about my birthday is that I have more and more mixed
feeling about it. One thing is for sure: my pleasure of celebrating my birthday
has decreased gradually and annually, and no longer will I push the “LIKE” bottom
on the comments for my birthday on Facebook for it.
從好處看，我老了，Andy才會長大。而被八分之一的朋友們關心，我也覺得我不是孤單一人。儘管如此，唯一確定的認知是我對生日的感觸越來越複雜，過生日的喜悅已經逐漸降低，而今後我也許不會在臉書生日留言上按讚了。
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