While age really is just a number, turning twenty-one does signify that last milestone into the full freedom of adulthood. So if possible, one should try to revel in it. Being from a small town and a rather conservative family, there wasn't a whole lot of reveling on my 21st birthday. But at least I was able to do a little vicarious living through my artwork, recreating what may-have-been... getting my first tattoo, getting drunk off my ass at the bars, and having a hunky dancer do a special bump-and-grind strip for the man of the evening!