So soon it will be my birthday, and I know the title might just make it seem that I’m waiting for some big surprise or seeking attention, but genuinely I don’t want to celebrate it. If there is anything I hate more in the world than the government, it’s probably when I celebrate my birthday at school. It’s basically the equivalent of celebrating a birthday at work. It’s seen as this terrific thing to all the students and teachers, and yet I still have to show up. And here especially. At least at my old school I could fake sick and do whatever I wanted. Here if it was my birthday and i decided to sleep and extra ten minutes Mr. Moe will probably get in my room and drag me out of bed. Oh, and don’t get me started on singing happy birthday. Singing it with five to ten people at a party, fine. The whole school singing happy birthday to one person, yeah im out. Even when it happens to other people I still don’t sing. The embarrassment of already having 89 people singing your name is not going to change if the number is 90. And what is this thing about having to sing happy birthday. Sure I understand it acts as the acknowledgement of the person’s \u201cspecial\u201d day, but what if I don’t sing I go to hell. I think we, as a community, have to change the happy birthday song being mandatory BS and change it to a nod of acknowledgement. Yeah I nod, that’s fair and simple. Besides, men do it all the time to each other, so I’m sure that everyone else can figure it out just fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now happy birthday in school is already pretty bad, but what’s worse is when your friends or family tell the waiter at the restaurant that it’s your birthday. And they think it’s cute. ITS NOT, ITS NOT CUTE ONE BIT. It’s bad enough when about 50 people you know sing you happy birthday. It’s ten times worse when fifty drunk men at the sports bar of a Texas roadhouse singing it. Even if it’s for a joke i dont want to do it. I was with friends back home and they tried to put me through that and I almost walked. Now looking back at this I can see that this kinda seems a little gloomy and down, but I feel that I’ve reached a point where my birthday is just another day. I no longer have that child-like mentality about it. For the past four years my birthday has gone by and I treated it as just another day. The only real time I actually celebrate my birthday is when I’m with my family, and I can’t even do that here. So in about three weeks from tomorrow I don’t want to hear any happy birthday songs or anything. I will accept a small gesture or a slight nod because by God if someone starts singing happy birthday to me at 7 in the morning I’m throwing hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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