| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 9:59:18 PM | As the topic suggests I want to know about how people feel about their own birthday.
I have never had a good experience when celebrating my birthday. As such, I don't even like to remember it is my birthday when it rolls around.
I unfortunately am 22yo today [02/12/08] and have to suffer the onslaught of 'friends' and 'family' congratulating me on another year spent here on the journey to the grave.
Am I the only person who wants to forget they even have a birthday? | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 10:10:47 PM | sounds like someone is depressed. Why do you feel that way? It's another year to experience life and enjoy it.
I"m 32, soon will hit 33, I only wish I acheived more things when I was younger. But I can't complain. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 10:12:16 PM | I don't know but, in my opinion you're kinda young to be so jaded about it already.
I'll be 41 on my next B-day to me it isn't a big deal... just another day. It bugs my mom more than it bothers me; because she is getting older too. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 10:14:19 PM | | I don't really celebrate my birthday but thats because its xmas eve and people are busy with their family. I don't make a big deal out of it, but I don't hate it either. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 10:29:08 PM | Every year I'm amazed I've reached another.  If you want to trade ages, I'm game. your young enough to do all the things I missed. Don't get me wrong I'm busy as I can enjoying life at least whats left of it. Family history says another 14-24 years. I plan on celebrating each of them.    | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 10:29:12 PM | | I love my birthday! I enjoy celebrating with family and friends. It the end of November so it right around Thanksgiving and being alive and kicking is just another thing to be thankful for. Beats the alternative. Although I must say that I'm not too enthused about being 58 this year. I'm thinking about reversing it and becoming 56 instead. Then 55, 54, 53 and so on and so on and so on... | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 10:32:00 PM | | No OP you're not the only one who feels that way. I've had many birthdays that were forgettable in my life. My ex never remembered one of them and never bought me a gift or card once in the 15 years we were married. One that particularly has bad memories for me is my 8th birthday. During dinner my dad told me to go downstairs because that was where my gift was. I went down to the basement and there in the back sat the ugliest used bike I had ever seen. I went upstairs crying. I'm the youngest of 4 and he had given each of them a brand new bike for their birthdays. I wanted to know why I got a used one. He said to quit my crying and be happy that I got anything. I think parents don't fully realize what effect they have on their kids sometimes. I'll be 50 this coming birthday, ugh!! I think I'll sleep in all day....lol I've already warned my kids to forget this birthday. Birthdays suck!! | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 10:46:54 PM | | Interesting thread. OP you sound almost suicidal. If you are, you should talk to someone you trust about your feelings. You birthday is your day and you have a right to celebrate it however you want. If you don't want to be around people you view as fake friends and fake family members on your birthday then don't. I felt the need to chime in here because I've felt that way a time or two myself. In my 20's my solution was to go on a trip every year for my birthday. People would ask me "what are you doing for your birthday?" and I'd say "I'm going to Mexico!" They were perfectly happy with that answer. I think they even felt relieved that they didn't have to come up with any birthday ideas or gifts. If I'd have said, "I'm staying in bed all day please leave me alone" I'm sure there would have been a unified movement to change my plans. Nowadays I celebrate it with a friend of mine who has the same birthday. For the past 10 years he gets his close friends together and I get mine together and we meet at a restaurant for dinner. It's so awesome because we laugh for hours and hours and usually end up singing karaoke or something. If you're like me, you'll grow out of that feeling. Please try to find something that makes you feel good on your day and HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY! | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 11:03:44 PM | Am I the only person who wants to forget they even have a birthday?
No matter how much the day disappoints, the fact that I made it through another year and woke up ON the day is a bonus.
Glass half full or half empty, OP. Choose now how you're going to live it. That choice will effect the number of days you have to endure. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 11:11:34 PM | I love my birthday. A year older, a year sexier.
And don't think of it as another year closer to the grave but rather a year closer to getting the senior's discount. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 11:18:54 PM |
As the topic suggests I want to know about how people feel about their own birthday.
People sing to me, bring me cake, and give me presents. It's not that bad of a day really. If I can somehow work in guaranteed sex, roller coaster rides, and fudge, it would be the most perfect day of the year. I wish every day could be my birthday. Obviously excluding that tacky aging part. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 11:47:46 PM | A birthday is just another day to me- maybe that's the ingrained cynicism of being a December baby talking though.
Don't dwell on it, say thanks if people say happy birthday, and remember it's just another day. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 11:50:00 PM | Well much as I am as proud as punch to be turning 44 this year, I agree with an earlier post, I am in fact doing the Merlin thing and de-aging each year. Each passing year (since divorce - 10th anniversary this year too high five YES!) I feel HAPPIER, HEALTHIER, and GET MORE ATTITUDE and, get more decisive about factoring in FUN!
Where I live the canal has flooded the park, and I'm dragging the kyak to the park in the morning! OP its the nicest thing about aging - I am way happier now than I was at your age. In my teens I overtrained and had overworked ligaments, looked great and felt 90 and was often sick. In my 20s I worked 2 jobs and studied, as usual I went like a bull at a gate at everything always, and yup got sick too often. Today I am just smarter about how I do things, mmm it can take a long time if you are stubborn...
Go to a natropath, get some tonics into you, see an irridologist and get that liver checked into. Whenever you feel jaded - this means you need more fun in your life!
Stay Single and have fun forever! I even celebrate un-birthdays too if I feel like making a fuss of someone. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/11/2008 11:53:13 PM | Mine's in January. Everyone is always broke, it's cold, it's grey...
BUT the ski hills are open (and I have my own stuff being ancient as I am), the lakes are frozen hard enough to place a fishing cabin, the smell of two stroke engines fires up the urge to hop on a snowmobile ...
And I have a whole new year to mess up
I have considered changing mine to August, but there are enough fun things to do in the summer. I reserve the misery of January to celebrate the turning of my next page. It can only go up from that :) | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 12:32:57 AM |
Mine's in January. Everyone is always broke, it's cold, it's grey...
When is Vancouver NOT grey? (s'ok, I still miss living there)
Mine's in January too... I tell everyone everything is 1/2 price so I ought to get twice as much, lol
I like a quiet birthday, but I enjoy it. There have only been a few that have bothered me... 29 because that meant I only had 12 months to achieve all that stuff I'd written on my "Thou Must Complete This By The Time You Are Thirty" list. About killed myself for the first six months too, lol. Until either I realized (or gave up from exhaustion) that, DUH, I wrote the list, I could change it if it no longer suited me and the sky wouldn't fall in.
The other year was 45. Became aware of "age" (really for the first time) and spiraled off into the ether over it for a while. This birthday was joyous so I've got a grip again, lol. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 12:37:11 AM |
This birthday was joyous so I've got a grip again, lol.
Mine too :) After several boring years of missing my family, and feeling sorry for meself boofukinghoo, I had my daughter with me and we had a BLAST a few weeks ago.
I wouldn't have given up, through all of the other duds, to miss this one. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 4:53:23 AM | I don't do birthdays anymore.... I have an UNbirthday! LOL
I don't want anyone to know.... yet I want people to know! LOL how sick is that! | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 5:06:34 AM | 22 year olds hate their birthdays because they have no more birthdays to look forward to.
When you were a kid, someone asked you how old you were, and you would say "I"m 9 and a half." Your age was important to you because you had lived for such a short time.
Then, you get to 13 and now you're a teenager. How exciting for you and your parents.
Yay, 16, you can drive. Also exciting for you and your parents.
Woohoo, 17, you can see rated-R movies in the theater without a parental guardian.
18. Welcome to suffrage.
19. You don't have to be a busboy/busgirl anymore. You can serve alcohol now (yeah not a big birthday haha).
20!!!! You're not a teenager anymore.
21. Welcome to the wonderful world of legal alcohol consumption.
After 21, you have NOTHING to do look forward to. I should know.
25? You're a quarter of a century old. How DEPRESSING. | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 5:21:28 AM | Im gunna be 22 this year aswell!!
have never had a good experience when celebrating my birthday
Only ever had one bad experience that was on my 19th bday! something i wish to forget
Am I the only person who wants to forget they even have a birthday?
Possibly, i feel a lot older then i am. so if anything having a birthday reminds me that i am still young, i can go out and still have a good time!! but i'll probley still be saying that when im 50!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Serenity~ | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 5:55:14 AM | well, first, happy b-day!
but, yes, I don't celebrate my b-day...some friends don't even know when my b-day is...it's just another day to me.
but, if you want to forget your b-days, you should announce them! | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 6:01:34 AM | I'm 45 and will be 46 in June...I don't traditionally celebrate my birthday, but it doesn't bother me in the least. I find that it bothers me more when my son ( 20 last Sat) has a birthday.
I'm happy in my life and enjoying things...on another note...I detest New Years Eve and that's the time I'm likely to get depressed.... | |
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| How do you feel about your own birthday?
Posted: 2/12/2008 6:13:05 AM | Well Happy friggin' birthday to ya !
You sound down in the dumps about it and I just don't understand that.
Consider the alternative, will ya !
I think maybe you aren't old enough to appreciate the years your reelin' in. C'mon....get jiggy with it or die ! I mean ever'day is a gift. As you get older you're gonna appreciate it more. If you don't have children yet, someday you will and every thing will change. Your years become theirs and life is a new game. You'll want to live for them. You'll want to stay healthy and be there for their years to come. It ain't a BAD thing at all.
I'm 46 and love it. I may be over the hill, but my gosh...the view is wonderful !
I have many personal traditions I follow and look forward to every birthday. One is my birthday journal, I write my feelings, what I've accomplished, what I want to do differently in the coming year. I then give it to my best friend, who keeps until her birthday 5 months after mine, she writes in it and then gives it back to me. We've kept it since we were in junior high. We're on our second volume and it's amazing to go back and read the entries. We are only allowed to make entries and read it ON our birthday and only on that day. That way we have a better appreciation for it.
We fully intend to make into a movie someday....well our lives are cinema quality anyway, so if it's never published, we'll be fine with it. We're just writing the script now ~ a great work in progress it is ! | |
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