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Bursting the birthday bubble!

After you reach a certain age, I fail to understand what the big deal with birthdays is! No offence to those who decorate cakes and light it up with a gazillion candles and the next year again its gazillion plus one candles but the spirit of celebration just remains the same. I, for one, cannot stand the idea of holding parties and giving grand treats to everyone just because I turn another year older. This means that I spend money, time and energy on letting the world know how close I am to being called ‘middle aged’ or old’. When the world will get to know, it will, I certainly don’t want to help advertise the fact!

I mean seriously, we don’t get younger with each passing birthday! Some people either forget or overlook this ‘little’ fact but I can’t help feeling sorry for such people. It’s not as if grey hair and wrinkles aren’t enough, why should one bear the agony of having to confront age full in the face by receiving cards with girls on the front who clearly have had breast implants? (Because lets be honets, no one really looks like that) It freaks me out when I see people getting sloppy messages written on cakes for birthday ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ who are long past boyhood and girlhood respectively.

Birthdays are just regular days in my opinion and as my dear friend put it,”There isn’t a purple moon for you just because it is your birthday!” Hard hitting and cynical as it may sound, birthdays are nothing special if you are no longer a kid. Once you hit a certain age, you suddenly realize that you actually dread your birthday. In fact those you don’t understand this fact should give it a thought. You don’t want all that hassles and troubles that come naturally as you age. Each birthday is a reminder of the painful truth that you are inching closer to doom and making a celebration of it seems like you’re actually welcoming doom! This is the reason why I just can’t stop but get irked at people who never cease to making birthdays into such an ‘event’. In my opinion a birthday should just be ignored if you want to maintain your sanity. Stay away from gloom and spare yourself the torture of a birthday celebration.