What Was She Thinking?!

Waaayyy coooool! A The Beatles birthday song! I have never even heard that one before! A Beatles song I haven't heard! And the danish birthday song! Thank you so very much, dear Joni, and you don't have to cough before the friend part.
I am 55 now! That's the iron number and the top of the fifties mountain, now it's counting down to 60!
I remember a poster from the sixties, believed to have been found under Saint Paul's Church Baltimore dating 16something, later discovered to be by Max Ehrman, but none the less great:

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952.

Ah, copyright the year I was born, but I think it's from the 1920'es if I am not mistaking. Now I only recited all this, not because I like it, which I do, but because there is a passage I have always imagined myself in kinda Monty Python-ish:

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

While this is being read by John Cleese, other members of Monty Python in the background are dragging a 55 year old person by the legs, wildly screaming, making claw furrows in the wooden church floor with his fingernails - dragging him away from youth by the feet, towards a sign saying "old" ....

I don't know if you can imagine that?

Thanks a lot, Joni, for the slamming birthday present! (I just saw a hiphop movie yesterday, where they don't say cool but 'slamming' - is that correct or the correct use of it?)

after the old part...

Hello jonimueller,I'm come back.

I haven´t heard the Beatles Birthday song before neither. Thanks is great.