Poll: Does your birthday matter?

[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]

le snip

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.