Birthdays

[stacey bo bacey]

I always freak out--in a good way--for people's birthdays.

I am always like "Holy ****! You're 21 (or 22, 23, etc)!!! Nuts!!" And they're just kinda like "Yea so what?"

Maybe it's just me? I realize life is so short and the fact that people turn a certain age is a big deal to me. They will never be the age they once were ever again.

Don't really know the point of all this, just pointing out something I've noticed...I always freak out and can't believe someone is a year older and they're like "meh, so what?"

 

[misanthropic_clown]

Heh heh. I am the exact opposite of you. I simply don't care about my birthdays. I don't think I have ever celebrated my own birthday in any big way. Granted, a big contributor to this is that since my birthday is in June, which tends to be exam season. On my 18th I had really important exams a couple of days after, so I was revising. I distincly remember for my 17th we went out for a family meal in that evening, and I actually brought along my Chemistry revision book. And on my 16th I actually had a Biology exam on my birthday, and a maths one the day after.

So yeah, hard to loosen up under those circumstances

 

[stacey bo bacey]

That makes sense.....

it just kills my joy when the people who are having the birthday care less than I do hahaha

Oh well, I will keep being excited for people's day of birth! :bounce

 

[DallasApple]

I understand Bo Bacey...

Especially when you have kids..Or you watch children grow..

It BLOWS your mind away...Im like "how old are you now. like .20..and they are like ...No Im turning 30 on my next birthday..and you are like WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!???????

Love

Dallas

 

[methylatedghosts]

To be prefectly honest, I don't really care all that much for birthdays in general.

But people expect me to be excited when it's someone's birthday and we're having a party for it...

I'm generally just more excited to have a get-together than the reason for the get-together. And I am terrible at prezzies. 1) I never know what to get people, and 2) I never know what I want (other than more books and CDs)

I guess I feel people make too much of a big deal about birthdays and stuff... Seems we need an excuse nowdays to have a party. Don't seem to be many parties for party's sake. ("what are we celebrating" *shrug* "make something up, and celebrate that?")

 

[stacey bo bacey]

Well for me the big deal isn't so much the presents or the parties, just the fact that people are moving on from an age they will never be again...another year is over..all that jazz.

Maybe I'm just a very sentimental person?

 

[ChristineES]

I get more depressed by my children's b-days. My oldest son turned 16 in September and I though "Holy cow, I have a 16 year old child!"

 

[Scruffitude]

I have no children, but my sister does. As they've grown up I've lost count of the number of times I've said "I can't believe [insert my nephew or niece's name here] is X years old!" For the record, my nephew will become a teenager next year.

On a personal note, I stopped counting my birthdays after I turned 30. When I turned 30, I somehow talked my mom into going up in an airplane... with me as the pilot! I might do something for my 40th, depending on where life has taken me at that point.

 

[madcap]

Well, obviously birthdays are great when you're a kid because they signify new privileges. Eventually, though, you reach the point when there's not a lot of tangible, instant advantage to go along with being another year old. Instead, birthdays become big, glowing neon signs reminding you that your time to accomplish the things you want to accomplish in your life continues to grow shorter.

Ugh.

But it doesn't have to be that way. If we focus less on the number of candles and more on the occasion -- celebrate the birthday, not the distance from it. The wonderful part of having a birthday is the reminder that you were born in the first place, and hopefully you can spend the day with people whose lives have been enriched by your presence on this earth.

 

[Jeremy Mason]

Happy Birthday!

YouTube - New Happy Birthday Song-NOFX

 

[AstralAkasha]

I like birthdays, they're cool. Mine is in 15 days time.

 

[Weddy]

On a personal note, I stopped counting my birthdays after I turned 30. When I turned 30, I somehow talked my mom into going up in an airplane... with me as the pilot! I might do something for my 40th, depending on where life has taken me at that point.

Wow! That's exciting. Maybe for your 40th you and your mom could sky dive.