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Originally Posted by golden_eve
Thanks, Divine. Yeah, people care about birthdays differently. I suppose I am one of the ones who cares about celebrating it. I used to celebrate an entire birthday month and would go out with each of my different friends to celebrate throughout the month.
The way I view a birthday is that it's a way to celebrate you -- the one day in the year when you have the opportunity to say hey, I am awesome, I am happy to be alive, I am grateful to be alive, life is good and I deserve this day. LOL. It's a person's special day. So from that angle, I like to celebrate my being alive with those I love and cherish the most.
I have volunteered in the past and have appreciated and enjoyed it immensely. I made my whole family volunteer in a soup kitchen on Christmas day one year because I felt we didn't appreciate what we had. It was great to do and taught us all something valuable.  |
You can celebrate "yourself" every day though, be grateful you are alive and have fun any other day too. There is nothing wrong with celebrating birthdays but I am just concerned that it upsets you can't go out on that particular day. Trying to give you different perspective.
Maybe I just cannot relate. It's just how it is. We can't always celebrate the way we want to: work or no suitable company or health or what not. Many people work in fields where they can't choose when to be off. My husband will be working third Christmas in a row, they have shortage of nurses and he believes women with young children should be the ones to request it off, not grown man with grown kids. He also always works on his birthday, just because how schedule works out. We just kind of adapt I guess to circumstances.
Schedule your outing for a different day, and pamper yourself that day.