7 Valid Reasons Not to Celebrate Your Birthday ...

Are there reasons not to celebrate your birthday? I´m beginning to wonder if there are some – but then I have had quite a few birthdays! So I´m getting tempted to ignore birthdays, as it´s starting to seem a bit pointless celebrating. And I can´t be the only one who thinks this way! Besides, if you don´t celebrate, you can pretend it hasn´t happened ;) So here are some valid reasons not to celebrate your birthday … and stay forever young!

1 Double Figures

I once read the following: ´There is a time you should expect people to stop getting excited about your birthday. That time is aged 12.´ Whoever wrote it had a point. Birthdays aren´t really that exciting once you´re into double figures, and not everyone wants to mark milestone birthdays such as 30, 40 or 50. So that´s a good reason to ignore birthdays.

Stella After age 50 it seems like you are celebrating a y...

2 Repetition

What can you do to celebrate your birthday? Go out to dinner … again? A good reason to ignore birthdays is that it can all become a bit repetitive, as you end up doing exactly what you did last year (and probably at the exact same venue). Of course, there are more imaginative ways to celebrate, although that then puts you under pressure to find something exciting and different.

3 Expensive

Probably one of the best reasons not to celebrate your birthday is that it can be very expensive! Even going out to dinner can be pricey when you factor in the cost of dinner, drinks, taxis and babysitters. Everything´s expensive these days. So if you choose not to celebrate, you´ll not only save yourself a small fortune on a night out (buy yourself a gift instead), but your friends will probably be relieved that they won´t have to shell out either.

4 Just a Number

Whenyou think about it, what is the point of birthdays anyway? It´s just a number, and yet people impose a significance upon it, and think that if you´ve reached a certain age, you have to behave a certain way. I firmly believe that the date on your birth certificate only has a meaning if you allow it to. I refuse to
have anything to do with my biological age!

5 Arbitrary Date

Another reason to ignore birthdays is that it´s an arbitrary date. So it marks 365 days (or 366 in leap years) since your last birthday – so what? It doesn´t really mean a great deal. In fact, it can actually be quite depressing realising that another year has gone by!

6 Uninterested

Ask yourself this question: are you really that keen on celebrating your birthday? Or do you just do so because your family, spouse or friends expect you to? If you´re not really that enthusiastic about the prospect, then you´re under no obligation to celebrate in any way. So if you´d rather not, then don´t bother (although presents are rather nice).

7 Pressure

Does anyone tell you ´You have to do something, it´s your birthday!´? Do your friends drag you out to a bar when you´d really rather rather be at home with your feet up watching a movie and eating pizza? Don´t be pressured to do anything you don´t want to do – it´s your day, and you can ignore it if you wish!

If you don´t want to ignore birthdays, then you have every right to celebrate – go out and have a great time! What I am saying is that nobody should feel obliged to celebrate; birthdays don´t always mean a lot to some of us. Do you find that

people automatically expect you to want to party, and you have to find reasons not to celebrate your birthday?

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Om They are asking me again and again the same question regarding about my birthday but there curiosity is destroying me internally completely and also very badly can someone please help me please 😞😞😞😞😭😭😭😭😭😞😞
Om What to do because in my hostel in Russia everyone are forcing me to celebrate my birthday but i dont want to celebrate on my birthday because every situation has merits and demerits
Jose they are overrated
Dino Birth only happens in one moment. The actual moment we came out of our mother's. Any other day than that is for the insane.
Lavanya yes! this is what actually i thought.
Nacnudinoj The only thing I think about on my birthday is my mom my birthday was her day not mine I had no clue what's going on in my birthday per se.... Not celebrating your birthday with other people wow what a chore........the chore pissing people off that you don't celebrate......
Dr Birthdays condition the wrong set of values into our children; to want, crave, envy & assume consumption is a healthy response to scarcity. It trains your child to feel Jealous of those with more, to take pride in superiority against those with less, to separate children from other children by re-enforcing classism, segregation, & gluttony. I will never forget the shame I experienced one Christmas, when my friend found nothing in her stocking for Christmas & I had stacks of junk pilled up. I will never forget the look on her face & the disgrace I was forced to endure which echoes in my mind upon every special occasion since. Every aspect of our sick culture & traditions has been hijacked to re-enforce our passive dedication towards maintaining our combined ignorance - so that Capitalism has the best chances of out-living everything else on what ever is left of our planet.
Marc Celebrating birthdays are for kids, not for adults.
Marc This is an awesome article. I love it. It does all the thinking for me.
Ezra Ezra. All my birthday day finds me in school .So I don't have time to celebrate and in fact i feel okay about it.
Karen I hate birthdays and I don't even display my cards. I so wish my birthday was in January when it is cold and miserable and I could then look forward to summer. My birthday is in August so summer is ruined for me.
Jorge love it!!! i personally hate celebrations of all kinds!!!! it is a total nonsense for me some time even feels stupid!!
Isabel I am using this for my writing
Stella #1 After age 50 it seems like you are celebrating a year closer to the grave.
Skylar My birthday falls right after the holidays (Jan 2nd). I have never been keen on celebrating. It's never been about me, it's always about what everyone else wants to eat, go or do. I could have said, "I would like to do a brunch" and the response was "well your aunt and uncle won't like it. Like, screw them! Today is my 23rd bday and just didn't give damn anymore. I told my parents that I wanted donuts instead of cake this year.... guess what my dad brought home. A pink cake with ribbons and sprinkles on it. When I asked about donuts the response was, "well, we really wanted cake." When asked about dinner, I said I wanted chicken with the alfredo recipe my grandpa used to make. My mom said that she felt like pizza. I had it. I told everyone to d do what they wanted. I said I relinquish my birthday rights (yeah, my bf uses big words and I'm starting to catch on) and they can celebrate as long as it's not about me. My mom went ballistic with "do you know how bad I wanted you? it's my birthday too." I said then celebrate your f'ing self and left for work.
Success I don't celebrate birthdays as a matter of rituals. In fact, in my 62 years on earth of which today is the 62nd, l had only celebrated my birthday once. That was when l turned 55 years old. Then my husband is was my partner and financial supporter just passed away. I needed to visit my evangelism field in Africa as well as pay the tuition of the fatherless children in my care. So l got a friend's advice that l could use a stone to kill two birds. Mark my birthday and raise support for the two purposes. So l did because of the helpless need. However, the support was just enough to carry out the Ghana evangelism. My kids and l struggled for the fatherless kids. I do not feel that those celebrating birthdays are in the wrong. That is purely individual differences. When and if l do in the future, it will be to promote my ministerial assignments to the needy and helpless. Birthdays celebration to me should be more purposeful than entertainment and eating and drinking Thanks for this write up. It blesses me today, as a message on my birthday. Thanks and God bless you.
Stella I like birthdays, but I don't like all the hyper crazyness that comes with the parties. I prefer to acknowledge my birthday with a little treat and have a relaxing and laid back day.
Michelle Omg I so agree to this. It’s like you read my mind. My family says it is selfish of me to not celebrate but we just have a special dinner and eat cake. We don’t even go out so what is the point. My 16th is coming up next year and my parents have been saying that it is going to be huge but I just see it as another day. When I was 10 I was excited but now I just want to read a book.
Nikki This is depressing
JM I dislike having birthday parties. I agree, at the age of 12, people just kind of.. forget your birthday. I would know, since i'm turning 13 this week. Anyways, I dislike people celebrating my birthday because of bad memories and things like that. For starters, my parents verbally abuse me ( and thanks to that, I have no idea how to interact with human beings ). I also am scared of big groups ( though I feel safer with friends around ), and I'm just not an attention seeker. I like being alone becauseI just feel.. I don't know, safer? I dont really know why.. but those are the main reasons why I don't celebrate my birthday and dislike it.
Hanan Hey can I copy your words I love it I will share in anther website
Abigail ooooh someones been having bad birthdays
- Neecey @Abigail Jaiyeola, I only ever celebrate "big birthdays". So it's not necessarily a case of having bad ones - I just can't be arsed ^_^
Billie I love celebrating my birthday. It falls near the end of March. I consider the entire month my birthday month and celebrate it that way.
- Sheila Haha Billie! I usually have a birthday week but a birthday month sure sounds tempting! :)
Devyn I love birthdays! My birthday is at the end of March and I start getting excited in February.
- Sheila LOL Devyn, I'm exactly like that too! Unfortunately my boyfriend hates his birthday. I don't get how anyone hates their birthday!
Lauren If there are only 7 reasons NOT to celebrate your birthday, then I can think of 1,000 reasons why you SHOULD celebrate your birthday.
- Jorge @Lauren: nah, might there a 1000 reasons, still wont make me celebrate my birthday.
Krixta Studies have shown that those who celebrate their birthday actually live significantly longer than those who don't :)
- Jorge @Krixta: Well, isnt like they gonna stay here for another century, i can deal with that.
- violet @Sheila Joseph, i agree i love celebrating my birth day but some people just dont want to be reminded that their getting older well at least thats my opinion
- Sheila I love love love celebrating my birthday Krixta! I just don't get people who get depressed on their birthdays and choose not to celebrate them. Sadly, my boyfriend is one of those and I'm still learning to cope with it. When it comes to my birthday though, it's party time! :D Thanks for reading.