I gave up on birthdays when I was about 25. Feeling old.
No longer a reason to celebrate that you're just still alive.
Worst was to forget a friend's birthday yesterday, who came to visit me the day before. Friends are far between around here. This one is older. I didn't go to see
Reason for gathering together used to be every binging night as students, from 1994 to 1998, and contd. to about 2005. Each New Year's Eve in completely different places... countries... in the summer
We are party people. Not watching TV or listening to pop or boy bands (eg. not a usual mainstream pay-for festival). We have serious professional kit. Vans & lorries packed for €uropean roads with generators, speaker stacks and amp rack rigs. Events are often prone to helicopter intervention in Britain, France, Spain and Czech Republic
I recommend this to any SA people as a true way to get involved and lose your anxiety and gain confidence and individualism. A healthy anti-society attitude