We celebrated my birthday a weekend early . We went to dinner with family and friends and then out to a couple of bars for dancing and drinking . At the last place we went the table behind us was having a birthday celebration too . Of course after a few drinks I feel like just about everyone is my long lost friend so I went over ,and introduced myself ,and told them it was my b=day too .
The woman that was celebrating came over later and was talking to me saying how nice it was to be out with good friends . I made the comment this was only my second time ever for celebrating my birthay and she says "oh why did you use to be a Jehovah's witness or something ?" I said ,"well yes that was how I was born and raised ".
She told me her Uncle was a JW and growing up whenever it was a family celebration it always got weird when he came because they couldn't call it a birthday or Christmas ,but just a family celebration . She asked me why after all this time had I changed . So we had a really long ,nice talk about it . She said she could see how controlled and unyeilding her Uncles life had been as a witness . She is now engaged to a Catholic and she sees similar traits within that belief system as with witnesses ,such as being so rigid about certain things and thinking they are the only right way to worship God .