How do you feel about your birthday? Do you look forward to it and remind all your friends, or do you dread it and try to keep it a secret?
I'm pretty apathetic about my birthday, really. I don't freak out about it but I don't run from it either.
I think the main reason I don't flip out and obsessively remind everybody is that I'm awful with dates. I forget everybody's birthdays, so if I expect them to remember mine unprompted, or wish me a happy birthday when I forgot to do the same to them...I think that's kinda rediculious. That and, I don't want to bug people, because I think it'd look kinda bad. "Okay guys, it's my birthday in T-minus 3 days, get me stuff!". I really don't need stuff, in all honesty, and if I do I can probably get it myself. Not saying I don't enjoy presents or appreciate them (because Lord knows I do), but they're not a requirement. Just knowing that people are thinking about me is enough.
I guess it doesn't bother me if people forget the day, because I'm happy knowing that they're thinking about me at any point in the year, and I know a lot of them do anyway.
To me, it's just another day. And I don't say that as some jaded adult whose birthday has gone wrong so many times that they've given up or anything. I've had some really great birthdays. I just don't put a lot of effort into it, I guess, because I'm not really original in any ideas on how to celebrate XD Among other things, of course. Maybe this year I'll try to do something for my 23rd. It's my 'tegraday, afterall! I guess I could..uh...go to a shooting range? XDDD I should try to do that.
But yeah. That's how I roll, son <3
~*~Me
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