“Surviving is winning, Franklin. Everything else is bullshit — fairy tales spun by people afraid to look life in the eye. Whatever it takes, kid — survive!”
Your birthday doesn’t mark the beginning of an age, but the completion of it. The number you ‘turn’ is the total years you’ve already lived, and each birthday is the first day of the next year of your life.
There’s this thing called the “Baader–Meinhof phenomenon”. Once you learn a new word or fact, you start noticing it everywhere. It’s not coincidence… that’s your brain actually trying to filter what it used to ignore.