birthdays

For starters, why do we feel the need to celebrate something that in the big picture is actually rather depressing. You are now one year closer to death. Because of you, your friends are now out twenty bucks for a gift to celebrate you slipping out of your mother's birth canal (I think if we thought of it that way, it'd be a lot less ridiculously celebrated). You birthday has now inconvenienced several people, for now they feel that if they don't do anything than they will offend you because of those few douche bags that have given their friends shit for not doing something big. It's awkward for you, especially if you're on any social networking site cause then people you haven't talked to for literally years will message you birthday wishes and then you feel bad because you sure as shit did not do that for them. You get fat on your birthday for eati99ng all kinds of sugary goodness, and if you are a true partyer, drinking your ass silly. It's super awkward cause for some reason people put off all kinds of uncomfortableness and ugly past (exes, fighting amongst friends) in order to make your day wonderful, but there is always the Undertone of whatever issue lies underneath. Birthdays are always underwhelming; you never truly get what you want, who you want to see never actually shows up, and in the end it feels like a regular day. All of this could be fixed if the tradition around birthdays was ended. I personally do not want to remember a nasty disgusting birth as my own, but I'd rather celebrate the future. What's worse is that those specific people who do work hard to make your birthday fun and say the right things, their efforts are disparaged by all the rest.

And that's my rant for the day.