Not yet potty-trained, you still have to learn how to deal with your own waste.
You still need to learn to eat right, exercise, and get enough sleep in order to maintain good health.
You still need to learn how to lock your doors so that thieves don't sneak in and rob you of what's rightfully yours alone.
You still need to learn how to manage your money and to take better care of your natural resources because they are what sustain you and have enabled you to grow as much as you have.
But, even with these and the other negative things you need to grow through, you're still the country in which a lot of people want to live and few want to leave.
Although many celebrate the national holidays of other countries, they're celebrating them in the United States of America and not in those other nations. That, in itself, is a sign of your goodness because having big bashes themed on our cultural diversity is what we Americans do to remember from where we came and to joyously celebrate the freedom and the wealth we have in you.
Look at St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo, for example. St. Patrick's Day is a quiet, religious holiday in Ireland except where the Irish have learned the value of the American tourist dollar, not the boisterous day of parades and green beer that it is here, and Cinco de Mayo is mostly ignored even in the Mexican state of Puebla where the originating event occurred.
So, celebrate your birthday and have a good time doing it.
May God give you wisdom to grow on.
I love you!
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