I See No Point to Birthday Celebrations

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Attending them and doing them anyway, I never saw a point to celebrating birthdays.

Why celebrate birthdays? Aging is a natural part of life. Need we celebrate the "milestones" of someone's life? One's birthday is but a normal day in his life. Regardless if we are the "birthday boys" or "birthday girls" or neither on a certain day, we still have to work on that day. For everything, there is a beginning and an end. We are all born, and we all die, so it seems needless for one to celebrate his life.

What is so enjoyable about birthdays?

I enjoy birthdays because see them as a celebration of life.

Birthdays are just an excuse to indulge yourself and do something you enjoy. For alot of people its having a big gathering of people, but if you don't like that, you shouldn't have to do that.

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It's a cultural thing. I used to enjoy it but now I don't like having constant phone calls and saying false "thank-yous" and receiving presents. Others enjoy the attention. One time I attended a "social night" at my school that was on my birthday and a girl I'm not crazy about sang happy birthday to me in the microphone. Also it's annoying when people say "but it's my birthday".

I don't see the point either, however my friends expect me too a) buy them something & b) 'go out' I do a, but i never go out and end up having to make excuses as to why.

I find birthdays difficult; being the centre of attention and the surprises etc. I also hate getting older

I don't like birthdays anymore, as it is one of many things that make me feel old (not saying that some things make me feel very young, too).

I only celebrate my birthday when I feel like it. Usually it's a group of people who don't even know each other eating somewhere at a restaurant. But this year the situation's a bit different and I was really worried about having to do at least something together with my roommates, cooking and pretending I have any kind of social life... Luckily I had a sudden change of plans)

last couple of years even i felt birthdays are sheer waste.
infact i just hate it....why did my parents have to bring me on this earth.
they hated me, always beating me up, abusing, yelling
and why should i celebrate the day which marked the beggining of my suffering on this """" planet

Getting cake and presents. That was all I cared about. Now I hate it when my birthday comes because I have enough stuff and it means I am another year older which means I am getting old.

I like the free stuff, don't mind the attention, just hate the day after. You feel so happy and crash down the next day. :/ Kind of the same deal with Christmas, almost makes me wish I celebrated Hanukkah so it was 8 days instead.

I used to enjoy them....not that much ever happened. I rarely got parties.

Then, at 18, something painful happened to throw my life off track. Birthdays became a time to reflect on how the past year went. Absent things getting "better," I saw little reason to celebrate the passing of yet another year. Now I pretty much despise birthdays. I don't feel like celebrating another year stuck in the quagmire that is my life.