So I'm turning 18...

[MirrorSweep]

Got drunk on Fable two, and felt okay with it.

 

[Mcupobob]

SNIP

Thanks for the profile, Dr. Phil.

Yeah, why not 365 days after you were born? I mean, arbitrary numbers are awesome!

-_-

You need an excuse to celebrate life? I guess I see where you're coming from; it's so hard to be happy and excited that you're alive all year 'round. I can totally understand marking the date on the calendar, like a chore, so you know when you can celebrate your very existence with friends.

Why is it an arbitrary number? Its the celberation of your birth and the day you came into existance and coming of age. Thanksgiven and all like it are the celebration of a bountiful harvest, chrismas is the celebration of resting during the harsh winter(all cultures have something similar to it) and why not celebrat those things? So do you celebrat life everyday intill your birthday where you sulk around and complain about it being just and arbitrary number?

/facepalm

You may want to read what I've been writing.

Every day of my life is the best day of my life; I don't need a reason or a number of days to be glad I'm alive.

If you do - I feel sorry for you.

I'm glad to be alive everyday, I don't see a reason why I can't be extra glad to be alive on a the day of my birth. I still don't see any of your logic. I'm not gonna reply btw I feel like were de-railing the thread. Sorry if it feels if I'm just droping the arugement without your rebuttal but this isn't the place for it.

 

[8-Bit Grin]

I went Milf hunting with the money I got for turning eighteen a week ago.

Money well spent, if you ask me.

 

[neoontime]

It'll be like any other day, just I'll have more cash.

 

[nelsonr100]

I went to the pub and had my first legal drink! Also had a house party a week or so later which was fantastic. Just have a good night in/out with some mates

 

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

I didn't do a thing.

It's just another day.

Nothing special.

Just a number.

Just an arbitrary number of days.

Celebrating surviving another years seems awfully strange to me; as if no one expected you to, so they throw a party.

/shrug

That's pretty much how my 16th went down.
Did nothing, didn't care, and it was good.

My 18th might end up like yours.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Eh, leave the house maybe?

It is 3 years down the line...

 

[Fetzenfisch]

I invited a few friends, we hang around in the garde, drank some beers. Thats it, its just another day. Nothing special.

 

[nelsonr100]

I didn't do a thing.

It's just another day.

Nothing special.

Just a number.

Just an arbitrary number of days.

Celebrating surviving another years seems awfully strange to me; as if no one expected you to, so they throw a party.

/shrug

I see a lot of others have quoted this but I just feel I need to say something as well. Mainly cheer up and just go with it. Sure if you think about it too hard its everything you listed but its nice to have essentially "you day" once a year and especially on your 18th which is a good place to mark your transition to adulthood in the legal sense and its probably roughly around the time you'd consider yourself one in your mind as well.

Plus its not completely arbitary, you are celebrating your birth which happened however many orbits of the sun ago, you could think of it as almost a celestial moment, for that day the earth is in the same position relative to the sun that it was when you were born! Thats quite cool in itself

 

[wooty]

I went missing on my 18th, family wanted a shit party and my mates wanted to "go out and get bladdered mate!!!!". So I vanished for 24 hours, I hate being the centre of attention for anything.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

I turn 18 next june. I was thinking something along the lines of renting some glitzy mansion with a jacuzzi and champagne and all that crunk-as-hell shit and partying it up with my bros and broettes...

...but it'll probably just end up being some low-level house in the countryside with a lot less jacuzzis and champagne and a lot more cheap whiskey and vomit.

 

[MercurySteam]

Just to be clear: Here 18 is the legal drinking age!

You gotta love Australia, right?

 

[nelsonr100]

I didn't do a thing.

Plus its not completely arbitary, you are celebrating your birth which happened however many orbits of the sun ago, you could think of it as almost a celestial moment, for that day the earth is in the same position relative to the sun that it was when you were born! Thats quite cool in itself

Or, you know, be stoked for you every day of the year.

Hey, I love me. I'm happy to be alive. I love my fiancée. I love my life.

I couldn't care less how many times the sun goes around me - it doesn't change the above in any way.

But you can't celebrate everyday surely. At its simplest level a birthday is a convenient point to do something extra special or give loved ones presents. You can't do something special and give presents everyday. I'd go bankrupt!

 

[Josdeb]

I'm kinda planning to go to the Mana Bar for my 18th...
Hopefully I'll be able to get in

 

[nelsonr100]

I didn't do a thing.

I couldn't care less how many times the sun goes around me - it doesn't change the above in any way.

But you can't celebrate everyday surely. At its simplest level a birthday is a convenient point to do something extra special or give loved ones presents. You can't do something special and give presents everyday. I'd go bankrupt!

You need to mark a day on the calendar to give yourself permission to give a loved on gifts or to do something special?

Sort of makes it a lot less special if you wait for a specific day - as if you don't think of them as special and deserving every day of their life.

How sad.

I don't think i'll be the sad one when I give my friends their 21st birthday presents. I think you'll be sad when you get that disappointed look off your friends face while you explain to them its just an arbitary number while eating their birthday cake and wearing a slightly askew party hat.

I wasn;t trying to argue with you in a nasty way but implying I don;t care about people because I recognise their birthday is mad.

If your profile is correct and your 18th was this year, I'm guessing it wasn't much fun. Also, a fiancee at 18? All I can say is, best of luck.

 

[Mistermixmaster]

I had my friends over for a party (as I got the house for myself ^_^). Had a lot of fun, though it did get a bit messy (pizza crumbs, accidental spillage of drinks and the like, but nothing serious). Was a good time, though there are certain things that happened there that we won't speak of, ever. XD

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I don't really remember what I did. I was one of the eldest in my peer group, so going for a drink would have meant excluding alot of people.

I think it was probably along the lines of, playing football(soccer)and then videogames as a group.

A day spent with friends.

 

[astrav1]

Yeah don't get drunk. Just get together with friends. Have some cake.

 

[Josdeb]

I didn't do a thing.

Plus its not completely arbitary, you are celebrating your birth which happened however many orbits of the sun ago, you could think of it as almost a celestial moment, for that day the earth is in the same position relative to the sun that it was when you were born! Thats quite cool in itself

Or, you know, be stoked for you every day of the year.

Hey, I love me. I'm happy to be alive. I love my fiancée. I love my life.

I couldn't care less how many times the sun goes around me - it doesn't change the above in any way.

But you can't celebrate everyday surely. At its simplest level a birthday is a convenient point to do something extra special or give loved ones presents. You can't do something special and give presents everyday. I'd go bankrupt!

You need to mark a day on the calendar to give yourself permission to give a loved on gifts or to do something special?

Sort of makes it a lot less special if you wait for a specific day - as if you don't think of them as special and deserving every day of their life.

How sad.

I don't think he means that every day ISN'T speacial, he's just saying that cerain days can be ETXRA special. I mean, take you and your fiancee: If you get married (hopefully so), would you give her a diamond necklace every day you were with her?

Financially that would be a bad move (Unless you happen to be an Arab oil sheik or something).
Not to meantion that the act of giving would lose meaning- We judge normailty by repition. It's not special to go to a resturant for dinner every night. It would be special if you went to a resturant once a month, though.

So why not plan the big events and gift-givings in one-year periods?

 

[Doitpow]

Do something fun, you'll regret it if you don't.
I rented a cottage on a clifftop and got 25 odd friends around...
I have far fewer friends since I left school