Do you hate your birthday? UPDATE

[ForeverAlice]

Nope

 

[wishesuponastar]

My one grandmother's birthday was December 29th. My other grandmother's birthday was December 25th. My grandmother whose birthday was on Christmas grew up very poor and received only a Christmas gift. Her siblings received a gift for Christmas and another on their birthdays. It always made her a little sad that she didn't get a special day.

That is so sad your gram didn't get birthday gifts and she was probably such a loving person anyway.

 

[MickeySP]

I really, really do and it's coming up...again.

Old age.

HECK NO!! Old age really is a state of mind. I am 54 and having a blast. My kids are grown, no worries about what I am doing with my life, great relationship, money & I can go where I want when I want. Best of all I am no longer figuring who I am, I am just fine. Loving it!!!

 

[kimblebee]

No, but I'm not looking forward to the next one. I'm turning *deep breath* 40 and that seems so old LOL

I don't act 40 so it's just a number. I'm also on the right side of the dirt for another day so that's a plus.

 

[disneychrista]

It is not that I hate my birthday in the sense that I am "getting older." I just don't care one way or the other about it. I don't enjoy being the center of attention, I don't really like/want to get gifts (and I a have a co-worker who refuses to understand DON"T GIVE ME GIFTS).

 

[crazymama]

HECK NO!! Old age really is a state of mind. I am 54 and having a blast. My kids are grown, no worries about what I am doing with my life, great relationship, money & I can go where I want when I want. Best of all I am no longer figuring who I am, I am just fine. Loving it!!!

Okay so I am turning 53 and am not really having a blast right now... still have two teens at home and have decided that teenagehood and menopause are a lousy combination!!!

 

[MickeySP]

Okay so I am turning 53 and am not really having a blast right now... still have two teens at home and have decided that teenagehood and menopause are a lousy combination!!!

I feel your pain. Just hit the carry it with with mini tropical vacations myself. Thankfully no teens. Just grands & you can send them home. It does get better then you and DH can act like 20 somethings.

 

[minnie mum]

Why would I hate my birthday? Every day you are one day older than you were the day before.Instead of hating getting older, I try to be grateful for whatever time I have.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

I tend to be positive, so I enjoy my birthday. I always do a little something for me, and thank my parents for the gift of life. I've never felt a need to hide my age because it doesn't change anything if someone knows it or not. Glad to be 55.

 

[NMAmy]

I love my birthday. I always take the day off work and DH and I do something fun. Getting older in and of itself doesn't bother me--only the little aches and pains that have been creeping up.

 

[Domo]

I'd prefer to forget about the whole thing.

 

[MIGrandma]

I would rather see my birthday every year than be dead and 6 feet under. I have never understood people who have such fear of their birthday. Age is just a number. I don't feel any different the day before my birthday than I do on it. We are usually camping on my birthday, or spending the day at the local fair, or having cake and ice cream with family and friends so it's always a fun day.

 

[DisneyOma]

Two thoughts

First, growing up, we used to get out of school every year on my best friend's June birthday, and go back to school on my September birthday. While I liked the time of year, I hated the frame of mind that we were re-starting school rather than ending the year, like with my friend's; she always had a great pool party! (I'm sure it could've been worse, though, like in the dead of winter, or on a holiday, etc.)

Secondly, I didn't enjoy getting older - until I was diagnosed with cancer. All of a sudden I realized that subsequent birthdays were not a given. (And a lot of other things, too.) So now I appreciate each one, and age really doesn't matter.

Same here - my kids were little when I was diagnosed with melanoma. I am so happy to be 50+ years old!!!! That means I was there when they graduated from high school, went off to college, etc. I bought a sheet cake and brought it to school on my 50th birthday, and shared it with anyone who wanted a piece of cake

I know many people who stopped having birthdays, sucks to be them.

Are they dead? How else can you stop having a birthday? (Although google insists on 'celebrating' dead people's birthdays , as in so-and-so would be 127 years old...)

 

[jdb in AZ]

"Age is just a state of mind. Don't ask me what state I'm in."

 

[Teresa Pitman]

It was my birthday yesterday! I don't much like getting older although I agree that it is better than the alternative. Yesterday was my first birthday since my mum died in June, and that's been a bit hard. My aunt (my mum's sister) called me yesterday evening to wish me a happy birthday, and her voice and accent are so much like my mum's that for just a split second I thought it was her. Then I remembered she was gone and realized it must be my aunt. I was happy to hear from her, of course, but after we finished talking I had a good cry. I did have a good party with my family (minus two of my grandchildren who are sick with the chickenpox) and some old friends, and I'm going out to dinner tonight with another wonderful group of friends.

 

[kamik86]

I don't hate my birthday. I like when it falls in the calendar (end of september).

I don't like many I know do a "birthday week" and make it all about me, just something low key. But I don't dread it either. Maybe I will later since I'm only 29.

I have joked with DH that the last few years my birthday has been really low key and we did huge things for his (we were in disneyland for his last one and will be on a caribbean cruise this year) however we didn't pick the cruise for his birthday. We picked it for the cheapest date they offered this itinerary which just happened to be over his birthday.

 

[Lilacs4Me]

I hate, hate, hate my birthday. I really just wish that nobody knew when it was.

I have no problem with the age thing. No big shakes. Can't worry about what you can't stop!

Growing up, the "it" birthday month was March. I was born at the end of May. My birthday was largely ignored. I mean, I got the Happy Birthday from my parents and occassionally a sleepover with friends, but almost always no family party with grandparents/etc. That was pretty much saved for the big March birthday blast. My mother was always good for combining holidays, too, so if our family happened to get together Memorial Weekend, they might have thrown in a cake for me as an afterthought. As a matter of fact, LOL the year I turned 18, my mom decided that since I graduated HS two weeks after my birthday, why not throw a graduation/birthday party and get it all done at the same time. And, since we were inviting a lot of family anyway, let's call it a Family Reunion, too! (how awkward for my friends and neighbors, and other side of my family, to walk up to the house thinking it was a graduation party and seeing a big "Welcome! "Z" Family Reunion, 1994!!!!" sign in the yard! And then later my mom brings out this cake that says Happy Birthday "S", and under it: "Congratulations!"

OMG...the memories are almost as haunting as the confused looks on guests' faces LOL

Now, FFW many years later, and I really don't want the attention and I don't want to be happy if I'm not just because it is my birthday! I want to wake up, go about my normal business, and have nobody remember.

Oh, and....did I happen to mention that I also share a birthday with my attention-seeking, needs-to-be-the-center-of-attention Mother in Law??!!! I'm pretty sure I stopped caring about my birthday when we started having to go see her every year and spend money to take her out for the dinner of her choosing, where upon arrival we have to go through the whole story about whose birthday it is, listen to the MIL/DIL jokes, etc, and then at the end, the waiter almost always brings the cake and waitstaff entourage to stand behind her and sings happy birthday to MIL....then leaves.

Or maybe it was on the 15th year in a row when she called me at 7am with the greeting "Happy Birthday my birthday Twin!" and I have to go through the whole giggling "this is so ironic our birthdays are on the same day", "who would ever think", "can you believe you share a birthday with your old MIL" rigmarole.

Every. Single. Year. Since. 1990.

My birthday wish is that May 20-something would disappear from the calander. Forever.

 

[cijay]

Are they dead?

You got it.

 

[Kitty 34]

Don't hate my birthday but sometimes wish it wasn't in January. As a child several of my planned parties were canceled because of weather.

 

[RedAngie]

I don't mind getting older. But I don't want a fuss made for my birthday.

BD is April 1 and the April Fools pranks about it grew tiresome decades ago.