How do you feel about your birthday?

[Ferdinandus]

Couldn't care less about it. My parents are always pushing me to call all my friends and make a dinner. Of course I don't do it.

To me, it's just like, 'Oh, 21 years of repeated failures, jolly good'.

I don't tell anyone. I only have dinner with my family and that's about it.

 

[Earthcircle]

Almost no one ever notices. I really wish the day didn't exist, that the calendar would skip over it. Hotels skip the 13th floor. Why can't the calendar skip my birthday?

 

[hexagon_sun]

I don't see the point in celebrating a day in which my misery began... The day I'm liberated from disease, worry and self-doubt: now that day I'll celebrate!

 

[Flanscho]

In the past, I normally ignored my birthday. Last year though, I thought "well, it's my birthday, so it doesn't need a party, but we can do other stuff I like". So I asked on facebook, where I got a tiny friendslist of about 30 people, if someone is interested in a boardgame afternoon on my birthday. And a few people showed up, and it was a nice day.

 

[Kiwong]

ambivalent

 

[spearhunter]

My birthday is actually a normal day, it was a special when i was kid , invited friends and having fun, but its no more the case.Actually none of my friends celebrate their birthday.

 

[chle]

You're a lucky one. People still ignore me on my birthday.

 

[Richey]

best advice i can give you is to get yourself relaxed, maybe drink two beers before the start, and chew gum, also take regular toilet breaks, pretend you are on the phone a few times. distract yourself but try to enjoy the day at the same time. if you have a party held for you.

make up some sports to play in the back yard, doesnt matter what it is because, it gets people out of that (sitting/standing around - awkward) mode. You can buy and hour or two doing that. So you dont have to say alot if you're outside running, kicking a ball or playing a sport. You can also set up those giant board games etc.

 

[mixedupgirl]

I hate my birthday....I wish everyone would just forget when my birthday is....i find it depressing getting old...and I think people start to look old and lose their looks wayyy too quick...i'm dreading getting old.....I've been dreading it since my 18th birthday and i still feel the same way nearly 10 years later, what is there to look forward to.....grey hair, baggy eyes, saggy everything, wrinkles....oh joy... Well hopefully the upside will be that'll still be able to wipe my own backside.

 

[NightTimeForever]

No, it feels like I'm getting more pathetic with each passing year.

 

[ImNotMyIllness]

I hate my birthday....I wish everyone would just forget when my birthday is....i find it depressing getting old...and I think people start to look old and lose their looks wayyy too quick...i'm dreading getting old.....I've been dreading it since my 18th birthday and i still feel the same way nearly 10 years later, what is there to look forward to.....grey hair, baggy eyes, saggy everything, wrinkles....oh joy... Well hopefully the upside will be that'll still be able to wipe my own backside.

I feel the same way. My life already sucks. So, I have more suckiness to look forward to.......I'd rather not.

 

[mixedupgirl]

I feel the same way. My life already sucks. So, I have more suckiness to look forward to.......I'd rather not.

Awww sorry if I made you feel down with this post...it's just its my bday next month and i'm not lookin forward to it.... I'm also hopin lashings of anti-wrinkle cream will help delay some of the dreaded aging process haha

 

[Barrier]

I don't like it, simply because I have no one to celebrate it with.

 

[FeartheGreat]

I HATE my birthday! It's right smack in the middle of december and like a few weeks before christmas (Dec 14th). Also my family NEVER throws parties. I never get to celebrate it properly. My sweet 16, 18th and 21st birthday were all the same. I just wake up, get told once or twice happy birthday by my mother, given some money and thats it. No fancy party, no presents, no friends coming over, nothing. Sometimes I don't even GET the money. It's been like that for as long as I can remember, and it's gotten to the point where I really don't care anymore. I already missed my most important birthdays according to people, so why bother caring right? I just spend the damn money and buy what I want for my birthday, whatever. Also since it's so close to christmas time, my family likes to use that as an excuse to only hand me one set of presents every year, which I find is completely bull****. Be at least thankful you don't have to deal with all that crap... Damn... Now I'm too angry to write anymore. Rant over...

 

[Ashiene]

Can't even remember the exact day of my birthday because I never celebrated it in 24 years. AFAIK, I only celebrated my first birthday. Many times when I have to fill in my birthday on a form I have to take out my identity card and look at my Date Of Birth because I always get the day wrong.

 

[Luka]

I just had my birthday 2 weeks ago and it was kind of depressing

 

[MollyBeGood]

My birthday is in 6 days and I am going to treat myself to somethings I have wanted for a very long time.. Yippeeee!

 

[RoseQuartz]

Glad to see there are other december people here!
yes, my b-day is on December 27th, and I don't know how to feel about it lately.

A few years ago my friends used to call me and said something like "hey, I'm at the beach/some other town visiting grandma/somewhere else but I wanted to say happy birthday".
Even though I wanted some company to celebrate, I was happy to hear their voices.
But now everyone uses stupid facebook, so I just give myself something like a nice meal ( when I happen to find a restaurant that's not closed for the holidays ) or a nice present that I bought 2 months ahead, before all the good presents were gone cause of Christmas

 

[Flanscho]

In the past, I really disliked my birthday. People would ask whether I have a party, and surely as hell I would not have one. I want my home as a place to retreat to, when I want to be alone, and not have dozens of people rummaging around in it.

Last year though I changed my opinion, and asked myself "why a party? It's my birthday, I can do whatever I want on it." And so I invited some people over for a board game afternoon. I got some nice presents and we had a lot of fun playing good board games.

 

[miserablecow]

My birthday was last week, but I didn't celebrate it and didn't want to...I just don't see the point.

Don't even have enough friends to celebrate with and hate celebrating it with my family.