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.
 
I have a big milestone coming not this year but next. Now that one I am hoping I get to see
all 3 of my son's together for that. If it happens it will mean an old old hatchet has been buried
among 2 of them. I am so hoping more than cake or presents it happens.
I don't mention this to them, it's their choice but it sure would make me happy.
 
MarkD said:
My hour glass is bottom heavy enough. Another birthday, another year's accumulation. But I do like the somberness of mortality, it's a nice contrast with the easy joy and frivolity of youth. A cake with the correct number candles would be a fire hazard.

I guess I'd describe my feelings as ambivalent. Let us eat cake.
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To me my birthday is just another day basically. No one celebrates it so I really don't care.
 
IrishEyes said:
I have a big milestone coming not this year but next. Now that one I am hoping I get to see
all 3 of my son's together for that. If it happens it will mean an old old hatchet has been buried
among 2 of them. I am so hoping more than cake or presents it happens.
I don't mention this to them, it's their choice but it sure would make me happy.
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If you have good relationship with all 3 then why not express that as a birthday wish they can fulfill for you. You won't lose anything & could gain a whole lot. Sometimes all it takes is a mothers love to make it happen.
 
I've always been uncomfortable with people acknowledging my birthday, I have no idea why. Maybe because it was never celebrated when I was a kid or maybe I don't like the attention but I'd prefer to act as it's simply another day.
 
Rae said:
I do like the birthday cards and wishes on my birthday. My husband and I like to celebrate in our own way with a special dinner and dessert. We do not buy presents for our birthdays just make it a nice day.
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The same with my wife and me.
 
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