How do you feel about birthdays as you get older?

Happy Birthday @MarkD .....
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I'm a Halloween baby. In elementary school, my mother once rented a room at a bowling alley and had all my classmates attend in costume. It was a big deal. Now I hate big deals. It's just another day. Hubs and I try to create special occasions throughout the year.

I've taken my birth date off of FB because I don't want to be inundated with people I never see wishing me Happy Birthday and having to go through and Like all of them. I do have a few close friends who reach out personally and it gives me the chance to catch up with them.
 
seadoug said:
I'm a Halloween baby. In elementary school, my mother once rented a room at a bowling alley and had all my classmates attend in costume. It was a big deal. Now I hate big deals. It's just another day. Hubs and I try to create special occasions throughout the year.

I've taken my birth date off of FB because I don't want to be inundated with people I never see wishing me Happy Birthday and having to go through and Like all of them. I do have a few close friends who reach out personally and it gives me the chance to catch up with them.
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So we have a New Years Eve baby and a Halloween baby. My wife's birthday is on 11/25 so very often a Thanksgiving baby and her brother is a Christmas baby. I often took part in doing party with my just younger brother who was born a week before me so on Lincoln's birthday and close to Valentine's Day while mine was on Washington's Birthday back before the much needed President's day holiday.
 
We never had a birthday party as children, although my mother usually made a chocolate cake for each of our birthdays. I never wanted a 21st birthday party but my parents insisted on it. I was glad when they said I could have friends from work and their boyfriends. There were only 15 people there, but it was a lovely night, and I got some nice presents. My boys now make it special and take me out for a lovely dinner.
 
Birthdays and holidays for me are kind of milestones or time markers that break up the years and keep them from being one big blur when I look back on them. They used to be bigger events, though, when we'd have my wife's family over to celebrate. We'd have a big party and get good and hammered. I don't even drink any more, so birthdays are now usually just a nice dinner, cake, and my pick for a movie... pretty boring.

Funny how we keep on plodding along through life. It's like an old car that keeps running with just some minor repairs every once in a while, but one day, it's going to quit running that will be it. My body will be taken to the great junkyard in the sky to rot away. I doubt there will be any parts in good enough shape for anyone to salvage.
 
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