What is the big deal about birthdays anyway?
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
First of all, what is a birthday? Well, it is the day a person is born, enters this reality, comes forth from the womb, and is a person. (Anti-choice advocates might argue with me here and say that an embryo is as much a person as when it is born, but work with me here okay?)
Now, this day you are born suddenly becomes yours. Every aniversary of this day is celebrated. You get presents and cake. Well, you get presents and cake and a little celebration from the ages of one to about sixteen or seventeen. Then if you don't plan the party yourself, you don't get one. Things begin to change depending on how much your family loves you and how your family works.
Some families stop celebrating birthdays after you turn about eighteen. By then you are too old, or your parents don't care. Some families never celebrate birthdays, and those children are very neglected, oh cry me a river.
As you get older, whether or not your birthday is celebrated, sometimes you are the type of person that insists everyone know it is your birthday and expects tons of huplah on "your" day. Or you don't let anyone know and let your birthdays pass undetected. Most of us are in between depending on how we are feeling and how old we are.
A birthday is just a day that a person decides everyone must think he or she is special and must treat he or she differently. When you are little, you get away with more because "come on, it is my birthday."
So a birthday is just a day on which a person happened to be born and on every aniversary of that day expects everyone to remember them and feed them cake.
But really, it is just another day.
Now, this day you are born suddenly becomes yours. Every aniversary of this day is celebrated. You get presents and cake. Well, you get presents and cake and a little celebration from the ages of one to about sixteen or seventeen. Then if you don't plan the party yourself, you don't get one. Things begin to change depending on how much your family loves you and how your family works.
Some families stop celebrating birthdays after you turn about eighteen. By then you are too old, or your parents don't care. Some families never celebrate birthdays, and those children are very neglected, oh cry me a river.
As you get older, whether or not your birthday is celebrated, sometimes you are the type of person that insists everyone know it is your birthday and expects tons of huplah on "your" day. Or you don't let anyone know and let your birthdays pass undetected. Most of us are in between depending on how we are feeling and how old we are.
A birthday is just a day that a person decides everyone must think he or she is special and must treat he or she differently. When you are little, you get away with more because "come on, it is my birthday."
So a birthday is just a day on which a person happened to be born and on every aniversary of that day expects everyone to remember them and feed them cake.
But really, it is just another day.
