The birthday paradigm

The reason we celebrate our birthday is to be happy about our birth and it’s relativity to the position of the world in comparison to the sun. Because when each of us was born the earth was at a certain place, a rotational degree to the sun, which is intern defined by a day of the year. So every birthday you celebrate, the world is in the same orbital position as it was when you were born. Celebrating this simply means you appreciate that day and location to define you as a person. In and of itself of no relevance to your life, but still affecting you by counting your age, you still see it as an important day.

Some people don’t care for their birthdays, not because of its meaning, but just because the day is factually just like any other day. They prefer there to be no fuss, no party, no gifts, nothing. Rather than having this day be like any other day such people often bar themselves from doing anything, and turn that day into the most boring and lackluster day of the year. Technically still celebrating that day by making it different in the attempt of making it the same, trying to be the same will always result in being different.

On the other end of the scale, people who celebrate their birthdays in enormous and luxurious ways are sometimes also over zealously popularizing their day of the year, as it will repeat itself every year anyway. Some throw massive parties with hundreds of guests and an equal amount of gifts. Other yet will buy some ice, bier, and chips, grab a cooler, throw it all in a truck drive to a beach or parking lot, and have anyone show up, and make it a fun time, regardless of any gifts of invitation rights.

Personally I prefer the simple party with friends and strangers to isolate my birthday as the day I throw a party, and have fun at my expense, as I have a friend born on the same day as me, we have shared the occasion together, splitting costs and guests numbers. Impossible to draw a straight line through cost and guest, the line is left obscured and simply ignored as fussing about it would take away from the primary objective of having fun and enjoying the night.

So how ever you choose to celebrate your rotational degree around the sun and the day correlated with it, just know, someone else is enjoying it with you.  So it not your birthday, it the birthday of at least a thousand other people as well.