Is your 50th Birthday a big deal? I suppose it should be, but it really wasn't for me. I think birthdays stopped being important to me when I reached 21. I remember my dad told me then that it seems like you wait your whole life till you turn 21 and then after that the years FLY by, faster and faster. Very true. The thought of being 50 makes me feel OLD! Not in a bad way, but old nonetheless...I very much believe that "youth is beauty" and "youth is wasted on the young". It certainly was, in my case.