Today is my birthday...my 32nd! I feel good! I don't care for big birthday bashes, surprise parties and the like. I usually enjoy spending time with loved ones and relaxing (in between chocolate cake and ice cream binges). I try not to expect much from birthdays. They normally don't live up to any of my expectations. Why so negative? Well, when I turned 21, my "friends" decided to go dancing on my birthday. What's the problem with that? Well, they decided to go without me. To make a long story short: THEY FORGOT MY BIRTHDAY. I remember that as one of the worst birthdays ever!
From that day on, I learned not to expect people to remember my birthday. Despite this though, it still comes as a surprise when people don't. I'm always left hurt and disappointed, especially when those who forget are the people I would die for.
Today I am 32 and ALL my New York friends (I moved to NY when I was 23 and stayed there a bit more than 6 years) forgot my birthday. I'm pissed. Am I being a brat? Acting like a child? I am going to address this with all of them primarily because I know keeping my feelings in would ultimately just cause resentment (and this isn't just the b-day thing...there's more I can't really get into).
Whatever! Do they think I don't have a birthday? That I somehow escaped a little thing called AGING? Fucking idiots!
All my SF and LA buddies remembered...ALL OF THEM, but the NY ones are apparently too into themselves to even bother with such a trivial date! Now tell me...am I being irrational? How would you react to something like this? Just had to vent. I've been antiquing all day long and having a great time, but I've also been looking at the phone, wondering if perhaps I missed a call. How pathetic!
Now...be 100% honest...WHAT WOULD YOU DO???
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you already know what I would do, tell them all to go to hell next time they call you, especially if it's to bitch and moan about their lives.
ok, so I said it like 3 times already but one more time can't hurt:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!
(^_~)
Thanks, Mailyn! You're really sweet. I wish you lived in SF so we could hang out. I will e-mail you when I get back...going out to eat myself into oblivion...woo hoo!
Welll.....considering my own mother occasionally forgets, I'd just deal. :-)
Happy Birthday!
That bites that they forgot! I'd just forget them (easier said then done) and enjoy the friends who did remember your birthday
Hey!
I now feel like I was being a brat yesterday.
Argh...Happy Mother's Day to all mothers!
I'd kick all of their asses! After I cried on my chocolate cake, that is. LOL
I'm lucky enough that the people I care about remember my birthday. Though there are several memebers of my family that don't.
Jerks!
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! Sorry I missed it! I hope, despite your jerkass "friends" forgetting that you had a great day!
Hugs,
Holly
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