So I'm turning 18...

[Lukeje]

Ermm... I visited my sister in hospital. Her being ill kind of overshadowed the whole thing (not that I was planning on doing anything much anyway).

 

[Samwise137]

I Slept in.

 

[reg42]

Well I'm not 18 yet, but I'm planning to have a party. Lately I've found out that I actually throw pretty awesome parties, so I'm pretty excited.

 

[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?

 

[Talson]

I didn't really do anything. Just went to school, and wondered why I was now old enough to die in a war or kill myself smoking tobacco, but not do the same with alcohol.

 

[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?