Poll: Does your birthday matter?

[Fraught]

I think it's very sad and pathetic you don't care for your birthday at such a young age.

OT: Birthday's do matter to me. They are one constant routine in almost all cultures and can be a very special moment for someone if they approach it the right way.

Eh, not seeing what's so special about being one year closer to death. That's not something I'd like to celebrate really.

Fucking Christ, I will kill a man if I hear this one more time.

What if due to the celebrating of one's birthday, you avoided getting into an accident? Then you're (though unknowingly) celebrating living much, much longer, and many, many more years.
And what about any holidays? Every year you celebrate Christmas, you know that last Christmas you were "farther" from death. Of course I understand that birthdays are meant to celebrate how long one has lived, which is connected to when one will die blah blah blah, but that's beside the point.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Fucking Christ, I will kill a man if I hear this one more time.

What if due to the celebrating of one's birthday, you avoided getting into an accident? Then you're (though unknowingly) celebrating living much, much longer, and many, many more years.
And what about any holidays? Every year you celebrate Christmas, you know that last Christmas you were "farther" from death. Of course I understand that birthdays are meant to celebrate how long one has lived, which is connected to when one will die blah blah blah, but that's beside the point.

You're assuming I celebrate holidays. I don't. I don't really care about them, and even if I would I wouldn't necessarily connect them with me living and as such not think about those things when celebrating that particular holiday.

And I don't see how such a random occurance would make me, all of a sudden, feel happy about my birthday. Such a thing can happen on any given day.

 

[Ymbirtt]

To me? Not really. To everyone else? Strangely so...

 

[RikSharp]

my birthday tomorrow and i dont really care for it too much, as mentioned earlier, why wait for one specific day to have an awesome time? just do it whenever you want.

Awesome we have the same birthday only you're older than me

Happy Birthday!

 

[crazygator]

I think that your birthday is very important. Yeah the routine gets boring and you grow out of the presents and the attention ( some people ), but you should remember that you are not celebrating your age. You are celebrating the anniversary of your birth. The number doesn't matter. Its the fact that you were born at all is what the celebration is really about. And don't for one second thing that its not special. Consider this, in all the quadrillions of trillions of atoms there are in the universe, the ones that make up you are very obligingly holding together to make you, and for a limited time only. After that they will go on to be other things, I don't know. Hats or something. The point is, you are very rare, when you consider the big picture. Not only is there only one of you, you will never be again. So Celebrate! If not for the chance to be selfish once a year (like most people), then celebrate for no other purpose than that You are alive, and that's awesome!

 

[Andalusa]

It's not overly important to me, it's just a day in the year that gives me an excuse to have a party. Not necessarily to celebrate my birthday. But parties are fun and I quite enjoy them, so any excuse for a party.

 

[Cowabungaa]

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Then what does that tell you?

Try to make a difference and maybe this years birthday will be different for you.

Hm, I guess. If I'd know how, I can't even take care for myself, let alone make a difference to someone. As it is now I don't even know where and if my next birthday will be celebrated at all, I don't dare to look ahead another year, scares the living shit out of me.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Fuck yeah. It's my birthday, damnit! I get presents, food, money and have my mates round to eat a load of food and watch movies!

 

[Betancore]

Well I get money, presents and attention, so I guess I don't mind it. Sometimes I'd rather be left alone though - it gets tiring by the end of the day. But it's still sort of nice, to see that people care enough about you to wish you a happy birthday. And I've found that birthdays at the high schools I've been to are always quite interesting. I wonder if it happens elsewhere.

I'm not sure that my birthday matters, but I do enjoy it anyway. Depends how old I'm turning. This year, I will be goddamn overjoyed to be one year older, because I'm turning 16. Same goes for when I turn 18. After that I don't think I'll bother caring, because I'll be...old. D:

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

I have BETTER reasons to bring friends together, without all the unneeded social scripting and obligations.

 

[DarkLordofDevon]

It makes little difference in the long run I find. Every day is just another day, regardless of festival or celebration.

 

[sephiroth1991]

We don't celebrate birthdays in my family, its just another day.

 

[Silent Eagle]

ever since i was 8 yrs old,i never understood holidays or birthdays. why do we get free stuff?
i'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth i just wondered why. i personaly dont celebrate holidays and the like but if i'm given something i'll return the favor. merry christmas

 

[Fraught]

Fucking Christ, I will kill a man if I hear this one more time.

What if due to the celebrating of one's birthday, you avoided getting into an accident? Then you're (though unknowingly) celebrating living much, much longer, and many, many more years.
And what about any holidays? Every year you celebrate Christmas, you know that last Christmas you were "farther" from death. Of course I understand that birthdays are meant to celebrate how long one has lived, which is connected to when one will die blah blah blah, but that's beside the point.

You're assuming I celebrate holidays. I don't. I don't really care about them, and even if I would I wouldn't necessarily connect them with me living and as such not think about those things when celebrating that particular holiday.

And I don't see how such a random occurance would make me, all of a sudden, feel happy about my birthday. Such a thing can happen on any given day.

You don't celebrate any holidays?

And really, it's all just how you view them, and I'm just sick of people thinking of birthday as that "one day in the year when you're closer to death", that one, single day, where you have the possibility to have a great time and have fun. I mean, what does it matter that this is the day when you were born some years ago? You get closer to death every day, but most people don't depress themselves with thinking about that on regular days, but choose to waste an opportunity of enjoying life on such a momentous occasion as a birthday on that.

And again, I get it that people connect birthdays, that is, to say, aging to their ultimate death, but that doesn't mean that that kind of attitude goes well with me.

 

[Cowabungaa]

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Nope, I don't personally. I don't object to them either, I'm cool with mum putting a Christmas tree up, but I don't particularly care about it. I think it's because I have no-one to share them with, same goes for my birthday.

Neither do I feel like I have a life that's worth celebrating, and I guess that that's what a birthday is supposed to do; celebrating your life. I wish it was, really.

 

[thylasos]

It's an excuse to bring together all the friends I have in whichever town I happen to be in, though not much more than that. Maybe a pub crawl and a nice meal? That's about as razmatazz as it gets, really. (And when I say a nice meal, I mean the 70s-looking curry house on the other side of town.)

 

[antidonkey]

I stopped caring about my birthday after I hit 21. Other people seem to care about it but I don't. It's just another day. Perhaps I'll care again when I hit the age at which I can collect social security if it's still around by then.

 

[darksky]

It means absolutely nothing to me.
I remember one year my family came over to wish me a happy birthday and I didn't even bother going down to see them.

I'd rather it if people notced how little I care about trivial matters such as this.