Birthday

Is a birthday a good time to reflect and take stock?  And if I were to take stock at this point is it a brilliant life that I have been living?  I am not sure that I would declare my attitude to be that of the brilliant, there is a well of sadness hiding behind my eyes waiting to burst forth into today.  My today 

June 23
There seems to be an inertia settling over my days, like a dust that for some reason is...