In answer to the topic title: When I was born. It has continued every year since, and gets meaner each year. See, My birthday is the first of April. So it's always been a rather cruel day for me, lol

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)