Birthdays?

[Sam172]

Birthdays, we all have one every year (yes yes, unless you're born on that day in the leap year you smart asses ;P). So how do you find it?

Is it a usually a boring event? Do you tell other people that you're celebrating the day of your birth?
Do you even really care?

This post was inspired because *sigh* it's my birthday again tomorrow. Yes i'm one step closer to my grave, sadly.
I find birthdays to be irritating events. Why celebrate that you're closer to death's door? Why bother buying people presents when they are just going to have to return the favour when it's your birthday?

For the third year running my parents have been pulling their hair out at what to get me. I keep telling them that i'm not worried about anything. I'm going to be 17, it's not a big deal. All the fun of being a child and having huuuge presents to open has long since washed off. I don't want any material goods I can't just buy with the money I have leftover from my last birthday. I don't want a large party, event or anything. But i'll still probably end up with money and a pile of near useless nick-naks which my parents will insist on giving me. What if I don't want anything? I mean, i'm excited enough as it is from getting a gift of 120 flaxseed oil capsules today; let alone something like a pair of socks or a book of "The Worlds Stupidest Signs".


Then it's time to think of everyone elses birthdays. Must find them a card, must get them a present or else they will get upset or angry with me.
It's like frigging christmas all over again. A mass of stress, money spent on often pointless or useless objects and enough capitalist consumer brainwashing to drown a giraffe.

-end rant-

Most people can't see my viewpoint. I'm going to cook some soup now and play with some matches.

[EternalCynic]

I don't care much for my own birthday.. maybe a nice dinner or a movie or something. I try not to let the day pass without at least a little something to mark the occasion. Other peoples birthdays.. hum. I love to take them places and make them feel special on their birthday (if they're that kind of person), but I get so absentminded.. I never remember to buy them gifts. I'll put it on my non-existent "To do" list, and then forget about it five minutes later.

As for Christmas.. oi. I hate Christmas. I dislike it mostly because of the thank you notes you have to write afterwards.. but it's nice to give friends and family things, if you have the money to spare.

[int]

I use it as an excuse to go out drinking.

heh, like I really need one.

[BritainOphira]

I usually try my best to ignore my birthday. It's not that I hate getting older, it has it's pluses, but as I was born in the middle of January in Appalachia, it's not like there's that much I can do. When I was in elementary school I used to want to have parties, but my mother always feared that there would be a blizzard and everyone would wind up stuck somewhere (I live out in the middle of nowhere). Recently my sister's been complaining that she never gets to do anything on her birthday (it's in April, I really don't see why she's worried about it in November, but whatever...), and I pointed out that I didn't get my presents for my sixteenth birthday until late July for reasons I don't understand, and that that is nothing new in my world. Then she figured out that I had never had a "sweet sixteen" party (again, I don't see why she cares as she can't possibly have one herself until next year), so she has decided to plan some sort of party for me.
When asked for my input, I told her that I would not attend unless I got a hot pink boa and a tiara. I probably shouldn't be so difficult, but...

Oh, yes. And happy birthday, Sam. (Just be glad you don't live closer, or I'd be tempted to make you one of my infamous macaroni and rhinestone shoe boxes purely out of spite.)

[file cabinet]

the sooner it's overwith the sooner I can forget about it.

[Sam172]

Oh, yes. And happy birthday, Sam. (Just be glad you don't live closer, or I'd be tempted to make you one of my infamous macaroni and rhinestone shoe boxes purely out of spite.)

Thankyou. At least I can sit safely in a large village most people have never heard of before ^_^

[SheepDog]

When my age was single digits, I cared. Since then, the only birthdays I cared about were ones that led to 1) driving, 2) drinking (legally), and 3) discounts on my auto insurance. I'd really rather prefer to skip the celebration of the day altogether. Family just doesn't get it. My alternative is that we be nice to each other EVERY DAY, instead of one day per year, +/- christmas, of course.

[jimkopelli]

Birthdays? Meh. I've had a string of mediocre ones plus a few where I was sick as a dog... and I either know what I'm getting or it's so off the wall I'd never have seen it coming. A favorite trick of my family is to get me something I don't really use all that often but everyone else does... bah. Yay for gift cards and dead presidents.

[candela]

Each day you're another day older. It's not like on your birthday you suddenly gained a year of age. So that thing about being closer to death, well that's always happening.

As for birthdays, I really don't find them to be anything special. I never feel any older.

[jimkopelli]

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. This is true. The process is called living.

[ainoassassin]

Eh. I don't care for them much. I expecially don't like haveing them during school. Too many dumb twin questions ( Yes, me and my sister have the SAME birthday, just like last year, dumbass) Luckly, this year my b-day is on a holiday. :D

[Niflheimian]

Eh. I don't care for them much. I expecially don't like haveing them during school. Too many dumb twin questions ( Yes, me and my sister have the SAME birthday, just like last year, dumbass) Luckly, this year my b-day is on a holiday. :D

Are your and your twin's personality type the same?

[ainoassassin]

ya, probably since were identical

[crule81]

I used to like my birthday simply because I received presents. 21 was nice because I didn't have to sneak around to drink anymore - but it's all downhill from there - nothing else to which to look forward.

I hate birthdays now because all of the attention is focused on me. The worst part is the singing of Happy Birthday. I never know what to do while everyone is staring at me. I wish I could sing along too instead of just sit there uncomfortably, but singing Happy Birthday to yourself makes no sense. I try to keep my birthday celebrations small, although my mother always tries to invite more people.