| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 6:26:30 AM | | By the way, we lost the journal back in 2002 and we were devastated. Her daughter borrowed it for a book report at school. But amazingly, the librarian at the school (the same school we went to) found it and recognized the characters and located one of our classmates and they returned it to us in 2004 at our 25 year class reunion.....and bought us our blank second volume to continue it. All we could do was cry. We lost a few years of writing in it. But did our best to fill in those years. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 6:36:18 AM | I don't make a big deal out of my birthday. I have worked on many of them.
What I find annoying are these people who think they have to have big organized parties for their birthdays every year !!!!! | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 7:26:49 AM | Happy birthday, you lil' ray of sunshine... not! Lighten up, man. You're only 22... old enough to know better but too young to give a sh**. Don't dwell on the past. Live in the present.
I don't expect people to make a big deal on my birthday and wouldn't be offended if everyone forgot. However, I'm blessed to still have my mom around along with 3 lovely daughters who always acknowledge my birthday in some simple way. It's not the attention or gifts I enjoy so much as the opportunity to be with people I love. I frequently cook on my birthday and Mother's Day cuz... well... it's my special day and I want to insure the food is good.  | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 7:35:40 AM | I think if you love someone, you want them to feel special on their birthday. Pretty simple idea, really. Call 'em and acknowledge it. Let them know you remembered and that they're special to ya. No biggee necessary, just a phone call or an email.
Some people say they don't like to celebrate their birthdays.....but they lie..! You know they do ~ some people are notorious for tellin' people it's just another day, then want you to make a big deal about it.
The more they tell ya or are adamant about it bein' just another day...phooey ! Those are the ones that want a BIG DEAL made out of it. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 7:42:30 AM | | ^^^^ Oh... I don't know that I'd go so far as to say that. If a person said they didn't want a big deal made about their birthday I probably would do no more than call to wish them a blessed day or send a card. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 8:19:26 AM | Absolutely nothing different then the day before. Maybe this year'll be different since I'm turning the big "4""0", but I seriously doubt so. Meh!
Carry on!
Ray | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 9:03:34 AM | In my case, I have to respect my birthday because my parents went through a lot to have me.
My mom was a child abuse victim for many years and her father refused her permission to marry my dad. Since she was underage, he could do that.
So. They decided to get pregnant thinking, in their idealized little teen world, that the adults of the town would have no choice but to let them marry if she was "knocked up". They didn't realize that the adults were more likely to send my mom away to abort.
Fortunately, my parents fought too hard and that didn't happen.
43 years later they're still married, still grope each other when they think no one's looking, and still remind me I'm a product of love.
I have no choice but to respect my birthday. It's less about me than it is about them, frankly. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 9:22:04 AM |
It's less about me than it is about them, frankly.
That's exactly how I feel, without the endearing story. (Thanks for the upstage, Cats) It's really just another day to me. My general philosophy on birthdays is this: if someone is important enough for you to go through the trouble to make them feel special for a day, then you should probably be doing it regularly.
Birthdays are day for the lazy people to get in their rah-rahs. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 12:38:44 PM | | I have a birthday coming up in a little over a week. It is on a Monday, so boring day. I don't have a huge celebration or anything, maybe dinner with family. Last year was a huge snow storm. Thing is, I am grateful for each year I am here. It is just another day, so don't get down about it. I think in the past, I may have felt the same. That birthdays have to be a big party, but they don't. Take the "Happy Birthdays" from your family and friends and be thankful that they are there giving them. As you get older, I think your perspective with change. So, that being said, "Happy Birthday!" | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 12:40:39 PM | well, you certainly SOUND depressed. No wonder, you are here on POF on your birthday! what the **** do you expect???
Happy Birthday!! Now go out and have some FUN!
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 12:42:53 PM |
What I find annoying are these people who think they have to have big organized parties for their birthdays every year !!!!!
Please explain why the way someone else chooses to celebrate their birthday gets you so riled up? Maybe they're like herdingcats and they're happy to be alive...and their friends & family are happy they're alive also. Maybe it's hard for you to relate to people being happy. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 1:24:03 PM | | I love my birthday. Well, love-hate I guess. I have had a ritual over the past 4 birthdays that have swung me more to the love side ... I download all the digital photos I've taken in one year, string em together in 3 or 4 second increments, and put them to a piece of great, freeing music, then watch. It makes me fall in love with my life all over again. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 1:27:38 PM |
I download all the digital photos I've taken in one year, string em together in 3 or 4 second increments, and put them to a piece of great, freeing music, then watch. It makes me fall in love with my life all over again.
What a cool idea! | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 2:15:37 PM | Hrm.. People keep saying to think of the alternative.
Well, I have seen it. It's not good, but its not bad either. [no suicidal]
My family never celebrated birthdays, so I am not jaded, IMO.
But when they tried to celebrate something bad always happened. On my ninth birthday my 'father' came back into my life after leaving my mother when she told him. He showed up to tell me that I was old enough to know he was never coming back and I would not see anything after he died of cancer. Nice guy eh.
Every year after that, until this one, someone in the family has died or has been close to death.
On my 19th birthday I actually died, clinically, for 30 minuets, and what I saw was not a very happy place.
Last year my father died of his cancer. His adopted son came to tell me he was dead.
There are other bad experiences that I simply can't tell anyone.
To sum things up, Those are the main types of things that happen on or close to my birthday. Hence my sounding as if I were depressed. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 2:49:30 PM | Happy Birthday to everyone...regardless if it's your b-day today or not!
I always look forward to my b-days because I share mine with someone special...my twinner.  | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 3:36:26 PM | No, you are not alone.
My birthdays as a kid are remembered with great expectations being replaced with utter disappointment. So, I stopped celebrating them when I reached adulthood, and rarely let anyone know when it is. My family tends to forget about it, too, now that it is the anniversary of the death of an uncle.
So, before you REALLY make your wish to not have to celebrate your birthday anymore, consider what might happen that could make that wish come true. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 3:46:35 PM | My birthdays have always rocked--I used to hate the time of year I was born--right in between Christmas and New Year's--but I found it was a great way to squeeze in some extra party time with my friends. Most of my friends from out-of-town were always around because of the holidays, so all I needed were a few phone calls and I'd have a party.
I remember my 16th and 18th birthdays--at Chuck E Cheese; I remember my 25th birthday (Being carried down two flights of stairs because I had too many tequila shots), and I remember when I turned 27 and started to split up my celebrations into two separate nights (based on the fact that not all of my friends liked to do the same things...).
The only one that really sucked was my 30th back in December. A lot of my friends promised to show up and then blew it off without so much as a phone call or message. THAT really pissed me off because I had spent a month trying to work around everybody's schedules to plan the nights out.
So you're 22 this year...that's AWESOME!! You should be THANKFUL that you have people in your life who love you enough to wish you well. Count your blessings and quit whining about it. Trust me...you'll look back a few years from now and it will seem like a lifetime ago. I miss being in my early 20's--right out of college, just starting to learn about guys, and coming out of my shell.
*Sigh*
Those were the days....... | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 4:12:51 PM | | So things happen in each birthday but what happened when you were 20 and 21? were they tragic as well? Perhaps you should take the day to be with people less furtunate and maybe there's some happiness. You could mope around and say how crappy is it, or take charge of the day and do something positive. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 8:17:14 PM |
Every year after that, until this one, someone in the family has died or has been close to death.
On my 19th birthday I actually died, clinically, for 30 minuets, and what I saw was not a very happy place.
Last year my father died of his cancer. His adopted son came to tell me he was dead.
I am so sorry. But each day (including birthday) is a new day, and one choose how to spend it... I know it's not easy when bad things like that happen, but try to look for joy in small things, find little things that can brighten your day.
Regarding birthdays, I kind of like mine. Most of my friends and family live far away from me, and though we stay in touch on a pretty regular basis B-day is one day when I hear from ALL of them and that in and of itself is enough to make me happy.
I am very much looking forward to my birthday this year. I will be in New York, and New York in April is always gorgeous. The trees in Central Park are blooming, the sun is usually bright, everyone is quite happy that the winter is over. Not to mention that NY is one of my favorite places...
So, methinks this will be one of the bestest birthdays.
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