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I'm going to be 62. I LOVE birthdays. On my birthday, I'M the special one. For the whole day.
I'm the first of 5 children, and my siblings are all stair step younger than me. My brother is a year younger than me, my sister is 2 years younger than me, the next one is 3 years younger than me, and the last one is 4.5 years younger than me. I don't really have childhood memories that didn't have a sibling in them.
I kind of like having a day where it's all about me.
I hate them, and have for the past decade. Of course, better than the alternative, but yeah, one year closer to death which I very much fear. OP, you shouldn't have this attitude yet at 34. 30's are your best years, trust me on that. Enjoy them.
My 34th birthday is tomorrow (3/12), and I celebrated it with my wife and family this past weekend.
I find birthdays to be bittersweet for a few reasons:
The good
- Celebrating another year of life -- something to be thankful for
- New goals to aspire to
The bad
- Another birthday means another year closer to death
- Each year your parents/older relatives are noticeably older and with more health issues, reminding you that the time will come when they won't be around for your birthdays.
So while birthdays are a celebration of life, they also remind us of our mortality to a certain degree.
How do you view them?
I got the birthday blues for a month from my last birthday so hopefully it wont be bad this time around.
Happy birthday! I turn 42 the day after you and it's just another day to me. It's funny to me that I have friends and coworkers that are my age and older that take the day off work to celebrate their birthday every year. I know a multiple people in their 40s and 50s that take an entire week off work to celebrate their birthdays every year. To each their own. You should take at least 1 full week off of work each year if you have the ability and if you want to align it with your birthday that's fine.
My 34th birthday is tomorrow (3/12), and I celebrated it with my wife and family this past weekend.
I find birthdays to be bittersweet for a few reasons:
The good
- Celebrating another year of life -- something to be thankful for
- New goals to aspire to
The bad
- Another birthday means another year closer to death
- Each year your parents/older relatives are noticeably older and with more health issues, reminding you that the time will come when they won't be around for your birthdays.
So while birthdays are a celebration of life, they also remind us of our mortality to a certain degree.
How do you view them?
Birthdays have never bothered me one way or another, EXCEPT MY 30TH ! For some reason, it really bummed me out. Maybe it was me realizing I was no longer in my 20's, but I was in a funk for a week.
But the rest of them, even my 70th and beyond were just another day.
I tend to not worry or celebrate. But I like KA’s way of celebrating. She treats all of her birthday month as her birthday. Now that’s the way to treat yourself!
I’m just not in the habit of thinking like that. But I might start.
Neither. It’s just another day to me. Sometimes I forget it’s my birthday and will remember if I happen to look at the calendar. Old age kicking in.
Now when I turned 30 and 40, I was excited while my friends were dreading those birthdays.
I’m not as excited about my 50th as I was with prior decade birthdays. Right now, it’s just another day.
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