So I'm officially 24 today.

[Jeunemaitre]

So yeah, I'm 24 now.  And I feel the same as I did when I was 23.  Yay, go me.

I feel ya’ dog. [/Randy Jackson voice]

My birthdays haven't made a difference in the way I fee for the past 6-7 years. My wife always gets upset when she tries to do something nice for my birthday, and she's more interested in celebrating the day than I am. I've stopped measuring my life in years for the most part (I actually forget how old I am quite a number of times). I’ve been paying more attention to things like x years married, and z years in my current job [where z/5 = % vested in the employer match contributions to my 401k account].

Raw years stopped making a difference to me when I got to my senior year of high school, and realized that no matter how old I was, I was always too old for one thing and too young for something else. So I stopped worrying about it. Now I just try to fool people into thinking that I'm either young enough to not have something held against me, or old enough that I deserve the chance to succeed.

edit: I just realized I never actually congratulated you: happy birthday.