What's so special about a birth day?

[Deep Blue]

you celebrate that you have one less year to live! Come on and cheer up!

[hsmsful]

Obviously because x years ago, this day was the day when u came to existence. This was the day which was the very reason that now everyone know about me and my awesomeness.

And anyways if you are going to look at it from the angle that says it's a normal day, why do people celebrate it? Then u are just telling all day celebrations to go away which is really bad for all these workers out there (National Holidays and stuffz). So yeah Birthdays are awesome. Even more awesome when they are the birthdays of the people you care about and hold dear to your heart!

[Soulless Watcher]

When you come down to it, what is the point of any holiday? Most of them are more of a headache than fun and are simply celebrated, because our parents celebrated them. Much like religion there is only meaning in them if you believe that there is.

[bronx819]

Cause humans like celebrating noteworthy events. You have the major holidays that're celebrated almost worldwide and some events that're only celebrated in the city you live in. Its a way to gather friends and family together to have a good time, its to remember sacrifices, its to celebrate praiseworthy events like your birth etc.

 

I'm not a festive person and adamantly avoid any family reunion, and I try to avoid having a birthday celebration, with that said it'd be a bit sad if no one said happy bday to me.

[madvanced]

On a related note, did you know that when you turn approximately 31 years and 251 days you reach your first billion seconds lived?

[Stray Cat]

*Does not make rant about astrological significance.

 

But yea, it's a special day for an individual and it's one of the few universalities.  All humans are born on a day of the year no matter what culture/ethnicity.  

[astro]

It's the day your mom pushed you out of her vagina. I don't get what's not special about that

[Cofee]

It's the day this world was blessed with my existence.

How can it not be special?

[B0X0R]

It's celebrating the years that the people around you have been putting up with you.

[Cyrillej1]

I try not to expect anything, but to be honest, it's nice to know when people are thinking about you on that one day out of the year.  It's special because it's almost an appreciation day for the you being born into the world kind of thing.  The ones that care will want to celebrate you.

[chocoberry]

cake

It's always a nice day for me cause I feel like people appreciate the fact that I'm here.

[Darklord Rooke]

A lot of people (most people maybe) celebrates their birthday once a year. Uhh, for those born on 29th of February, once each four years. But really, what's so special about it? It's just one of the 365 days.

 

Nothing in particular. The common folk copied the practices of the rich, like they tend to do. 

 

People do tend to enjoy the cake and presents that come with the day, though.

[Eclipsed]

^Do you enjoy the cake and presents Rooke

 

Pls don't say "I did... 30 years ago"

 

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I actually don't celebrate my birthday anymore ie. no cake + candles + sing happy birthday. Just going through the day having people say happy birthday if they feel like it is good enough

[Darklord Rooke]

^Do you enjoy the cake and presents Rooke

 

Erm... no comment

[Amon]

Objectively speaking, a year is just a arbitrary measuring unit. Move to the next Planet and a earth-year makes no sense anymore.

"A year" is just a handy tool for having a reasonable rhythm to celebrate something. Why celebrate? Because we want to. We value whatever is being celebrated.

 

Well, but I don't give a crap about any celebration, including my own birthday, because I don't like celebrating for no good reason. And "just for the sake of it" deems stupid, at least for me. No wonder, my mindset is that of a cynical grouch and I abandoned as good as every real social contact.

 

Celebrating birth also requires to have a life-affirming world-view. Since I've read through the whole Schopenhauer, I'm probably more life-denying than most Buddhists (Fun fact: The real christianity is also pure life-denial. Todays christianity is, just as many other things, altered beyond recognition). Life-denying from a philosophical reflection, not some emo "Uhh, I hate the world, I want to die" stuff. But that's another story.