Those of you who hate your birthday, why?

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1. – The rose-colored glasses 🤓 wore off.
   – Family isn’t close anymore.
   – No one to share it with.
   – Not in the mood to find someone to share it with.
   – Reminds me my white hairs aren’t manic panic hair dye. ☹️

2. My bday is last in the year for my family of 6. My mom never celebrated my bday, flat out forgot it at 11 and 13, and left my dad on my 16th. It’s not that I hate my birthday, I just don’t really care about it.

3. I don’t hate them very profoundly but I don’t really feel they are something worth celebrating. There are occasions so much more appropriate for celebration. What I hate is being a birthday kid at the office, providing everyhting for others to have fun and then cleaning afterwards.

4. I don’t hate my birthday so to speak, but I celebrate it very calmly, it’s just another day of life and I take it as such. There are many people that for me exaggerate in how to celebrate their birthday, I feel that they are dates that were created to spend a lot of money hahaha.

5. I just stopped caring. Any time I look forward to it or make plans it ends up falling apart. So I just let it be another day, my mom will make me a cake and I go home for dinner and that’s enough

6. When I was a kid, I had truly awesome birthdays. Big party every year, lots of friends, always at a different venu and Mom always went all out.

   Now I’m 30. I havent had a party in about 4 or 5 years. Friends all grew apart, we moved away from everyone so even if we did reach out it isn’t realistic they would make the drive. Family sucks to be honest.

   If I had more people I truly cared about and wanted to have a fun night with, and who I would make the drive for or felt would do the same for me… I’d probably enjoy them. Now its just a reminder how lonely I am.

7. I’ve never had a good memory attached to it. I don’t hate it but i am indifferent. Nobody has really cared about it either so it’s chill.

8. I always hated my birthday because I didn’t like getting old. Now it’s even worse because one of my friends died of an overdose at my birthday a few years ago. I was the last person who saw her alive. I let her die because I wasn’t sober myself and the idea that she is overdosing didn’t enter my head. I thought she was just sick from alcohol and should just sleep. I had this feeling that something is wrong but I didn’t come to the right conclusions. So I hate my birthdays now mainly because of guilt.

9. It confronts me with my lacking feeling of self-worth

10. Don’t really care, it’s just like any day. I can buy myself any “gift”. I don’t really care if my friends acknowledge my birthday or anything but as I’ve gotten older and remained single for a long time that I would rather celebrate it with a lover instead of friends.

11. On my birthday I take stock of what I’ve done with my life so far and it’s kind of disappointing. The years keep going by and I’m not where I want to be.
    Also sometimes celebrating a birthday means putting yourself at center of attention and having expectations from others,which also leads to disappointment.

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13. I don’t “hate” my birthday. I just wish it wasn’t in the middle of 🤬 winter. I hate cold

14. I HATE the fact that I’m getting older….. I get so sad