Why You Shouldn't Celebrate Birthdays

Birthdays are stupid and getting older is dumb. But since you can't avoid it check out these tips on how to celebrate your special day to make it truly mean something to the people you love.

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[TheJoshSpeaks]

Birthdays are stupid and getting older is dumb. But since you can't avoid it check out these tips on how to celebrate your special day to make it truly mean something to the people you love.

#birthdays   #gettingolder   #bekindtoothers   #happybirthday

[BryceJohnson]

I avoid my birthday at all cost. Since I haven't had Facebook for over 5 years no one remembers it. (Including my mother) and I'm ok with it. I hate the attention.

[phanteid]

Who else is watching this while trying to find reasoning for their birthdays?

[Seductive_Psycho]

I don't like birthdays. I don't see somebody getting older as a means of Celebration. And these people that end up having a bunch of guests and renting out a special room all because of their birthday seem to be very full of themselves and my opinion

[anthonyfrade]

You are my my kind of people! I can't stand my birthday.

[Zedd]

I hate birthdays. I'm not a birthday person. Nobody has shaped who I am today.

[Petero]

Thanking other people for what they've contributed to my life makes sense. But it's better to give that love to people right back every day and every moment, not once a year. Without any reminders and ceremonies.

[ErynnHalvorson]

Birthdays are quite dumb. We only get one birthday in our entire lifetime...it doesn’t become a national holiday or some ridiculous thing like that, we don’t have a birthday every single year. What’s the point? I could honestly care less about the day of my birth (lots of personal reasons). In 2020, I’ve learned birthdays are just superficial, driven by social media. I hate the idea of how people expect attention and gifts for their birthday. I wish people would work hard to the things they want instead of things being handed to them.

[TheJoshSpeaks]

I hate birthdays. I hate celebrating them. I hate thinking about them. In this video, I lay out the clear cut reasons why we should just STOP celebrating them.

[maggiemoran]

Today is my 16th birthday and I don't want anyone to say happy birthday to me

[fschool]

I don't, i even turned off Birthday notifications on FB. I find it silly, haven't done anything great yet so whats point, even if not born world won't have been much different.

[TrumpetDinopup]

Just think if we didn't celebrate birthdays or even have them - we wouldn't "know" what "age" we supposed to be and a lot of people would be a lot younger for a long time. I notice in cultures that don't have birth certificates or birthdays that people who might be 80 years old look 30 something... in other words they stay in prime health because they are not conditioned by society as to what age is and what "old" is

[Raet]

*My birthday coming up... im not celebrating it there's no point. Just another day...*

[claudiaarmah]

Very true Josh! By celebrating your birthday you are publicly announcing your age of maturity. What for? We all mature on our date of births plus we need to act according to our age but it does not mean that we cannot be ourselves. The fact, you have grown you have to act like you have grown.

I know some friends of who have not changed their behaviour after cele rating their brithdays. People forget to pay gratitude to God because without God you would not have been able to exist and yes they forget about their mother who went through excruciating labour pains just to deliver them into this world.

So for me rather than glorifying myself on my birthday, I used that day to write a sing or poem to my mother and paying gratitude to the Creator.

Furthermore, our brithdays are not necessarily a holiday so just treat as a normal day.

[USA_]

I haven't really celebrated my birthday since 16 yo because I feel birthdays are more for children and certain life milestones. Plus, I love to celebrate life everyday for it's own sake 😊🍀💪

[lenny]

birthday refers to our material body which according ancient vedic philosophy is a temporary illusion. Rather we are eternal souls who are never born and will never die. Celebrating that day when our material body was born means to intensify our false identification with something that we eventually have to give up again.

Add to all those good reasons you gave us, the fact that this "celebration" stems from idolatrous nations Egypt and ancient Greek cultures and has nothing to do with Christianity. The Bible mentions two birthday celebrations of pagans in both innocent people were killed the last one being John the Baptist after Salome danced and the king promised her a wish.. Which ended up being her mother's wish to have John beheaded!! ..  First Christians century never celebrated their birthdays and for that matter we do not even know when Jesus was exactly born!! ..

[lisaross]

All Birthdays are important! I'm 53 today. And I can tell you it hurts, when you sit at home alone, wishing your family and friends would stop by or at least call. To me.... a Text message is not a good thing to send your mom on her Birthday.

[man]

I personally just see Birthdays as literally just celebrating inching closer to death.

[danielestaub]

Thanks for making me think. I actually like birthdays and try to make sure that people know they are appreciated. You make a good point that we can celebrate OUR own birthday by remembering the people around us.