So Who's Afraid of Birthdays Author:Anna B. Mow One, two, three, four, five...I could hardly wait for ten. Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen...I could hardly wait for twenty. Graduations, marriage, and three babies. (One at a time!) and I was satisfied with forty. The birthdays kept on coming! Fifty wasn't so bad. I could scarcely believe sixty. Then retirement into a whole new life at sixty-five. ... more »Another ten years have gone and the next birthday is seventy-six. I really can't believe it. Life is more exciting and fulfilling than ever. So birthdays don't count. It is life that counts.« less