Weekend-Engagement writing topics: WEEK 165 ~ Birthdays

Birthdays
Do you like celebrating birthdays (your own or other people's) or not? Explain in a post of at least 300 words and use your photos in your post, not stock images.

In my twenty-something years on earth as an adult about clocking thirty in just a few years, I am not sure I have ever had plans for my birthday or taken out time to go snap birthday pictures like every young lady out there calls it, and do.

I am a happy person and always happy for others when they are celebrating themselves, regardless of what they are celebrating I wouldn't know if it is a result of biological or environmental factors but there is something that always happens when it's a birthday or when I realize my birthday Is around the corner, I am not excited or enthusiastic about the whole birthday stuff.

I mean like every other young girl I see out there who goes to the extent of taking a birthday picture so they can post on that day, who constantly reminds everyone of their friends and family that day and how they expect a gift from them, who also have a worked out plan of how that day is supposed to go and end, they anticipate of that day.

For me, it's different I always wish those around me could even forget about that day, I never have plans even if I am asked, I just see that day to be like every other normal day in my life, I never prepare myself for a birthday picture or anticipate for anything from anyone, I always take the day as it comes especially that day.

I could be happy, and of course grateful to God for allowing me to see a new year and keeping healthy and hearty for the new journey but there is always this nagging that comes and this self-awareness and even self-consciousness that I just added another year to my age, I wouldn't know if it is just me or my way of reasoning, but I begin to ask questions like, "What have I achieved over the years that I can be proud of, "how is this new year going to look like" and many more questions that keeps reminding me that as much as I am happy for a new age, I should also be aware that this new age comes with much and an added responsibility.

So, I guess that's why I don't like celebrating my birthday and just love to see and think that particular day is just like every other day in my life and would treat it as such. I remember a friend telling me in her words a few months ago on my birthday "It seems I am not grateful to God, I should push all my problems and choose to be happy that day because it's my birthday", but on a true sense, I wasn't sad, there just wasn't enthusiasm, like everyone has on their birthday.

The worst part is, I have never been a picture person, so I don't give ears to snapping pictures just for that day.

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Just yesterday while returning from school with a friend of mine, she reminded me of her birthday coming up next month and the 17th precisely, by that time, we would be done with exams and would be on holiday, she told me she has no plans of celebrating it and since it would be a holiday will be traveling out of the state, with the way she sounded I felt bad about her not having anyone to celebrate that day, and I told her not to travel that we could come up with something for that day even though it is going to be small and economy right now is bad and that I know is a promise.

I seriously do not know how I am going to celebrate her, but one thing I do know is I am going to do it, I love to see people celebrate themselves and I am going to help me make her feel special on that day.

But I don't usually love to extend my bad vibes to others, so I love to celebrate others on their birthday, just to make them feel special, I don't have to do big for the person, but I just always love to remind the person that it is a big milestone he or she has just crossed.

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I love to celebrate others' birthdays but always feel there is no need to celebrate myself when it is mine.