Happy Birthday To Me

Every year my birthday feels less and less like a special day... and more and more like just any other day. I remember as a child how important my birthday always was to me. It just felt magical. Lately though, with each passing year, I wonder why anyone over the age of 18 even bothers to celebrate getting another year older. Perhaps this is my cynical outlook on life speaking loudly. It is just funny to me how I can be so excited and gung-ho about my children's birthdays and view my own as a non-event.

An even stranger phenomenon are the people who did remember to say "Happy Birthday" to me versus the people who did not. I guess everyone feels the way that I do about December 13. Just another day.

Comments

[Becky]

Happy Be-lated Birthday!!!!!!!!!!

[LIsa]

Happy Belated birthday! You deserve to celebrate you! Just because we're over 18 doesn't mean we can't still regard our birthdays as we did when we were children. I hope you still manage to do something special for yourself, even if it's just baking a small cake with your kids. It's okay to get annoyed when people forget your birthday. I still do.

[sylvia]

BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY K!

i love celebrating my birthday. i celebrate the whole month of august, and i must admit, i'm pretty obnoxious about it, and love being that way too! LOL LOL LOL if anyone forgets my birthday, it's ok because i remember it! LOL

my daughter started that tradition of celebrating our birthdays the whole month, and she's just as obnoxious. we're both pleasantly obnoxious though.

as i get older, i celebrate another year of LIFE! it's wonderful.

here's hoping you had a very special day!

[""Aunt Sharon]

Birthdays are special and are meant to be celebrated. Remember this occassion is especially for YOU. Don't wait for others to make this day special for you, and keep in mind what if there was no you.
Thank God for your special day and from
now on CELEBRATE!
"Aunt Sharon"
(Everybody calls me this)