Are Birthdays Special? · 7:40pm Jul 24th, 2016
I've been thinking about this quite a lot lately. Are birthdays special? Everyone has one. Why do we celebrate the birth of another human into this world when we ourselves came in the same way? It's not special at all.
I have never regarded my birthday as special, in fact, I generally hate my birthday. It's just another day to me. Though I don't care for my birthday, I do celebrate the birthdays of those around me. I never thought to stop and ask myself why I bothered.
This all came up during this week. My father's birthday is on the 19th. I called him the 17th, he received his gift I sent him, but I did not call him the 19th. I didn't wish him a happy birthday on his facebook - not that I get on it very much, and I didn't call him the day that I remembered I forgot to call him. I didn't think it was important to call him since I already missed it. What am I going to do, wish him a happy birthday days later? That just sounds ridiculous.
Maybe I'm just pretentious. That or it could be I don't have a very close bond with my father. I'd like to say that was it, but I could skip my sister's or mother's birthday and I wouldn't really care either. Though, I don't have a close bond with them either.
I have to wonder if I'll hold the same opinions on the idea of birthdays whenever I get married or have kids, if I choose to do either, or if I'll still hate my birthday, as I do now.
Maybe it's just a stupid thing to hate, but there's a lot of hate in the world so I may as well hate something stupid like everyone else.
~TheTimeSword
I don't care about birthdays very much either. The only reason I still celebrate them is because my family does.
I don't hate them exactly, but I am pretty apathetic.