Birthdays - Sucks to be in a Rut

Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday. It got me thinking about the people who have birthdays tomorrow. What if you don't even like football but all of your friends do?

So some birthdays just feel more special than others because they happen to fall on a holidays. The more famous or popular the holiday, the more special people say your birthday is.

The ultimate seems like Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. We all talk about how special you are for having those birthdays, yadda yadda yadda. Those birthdays are the worst though if you think about it.

At least during Thanksgiving, you get to see your family and you probably get gifts, but people are too busy celebrating the holiday so all you get is a cake which blends in with all the pies and other desserts.

If you are born on Christmas or Christmas Eve, it sucks because often times people only give you one present. Actually, at least if you are born on Christmas or Christmas Eve, please at least acknowledge that you are a Christmas baby. If you are born on the 22nd or something, you aren't special AND you don't get extra presents.

New Years, well it might not seem so bad when you are young, because you might get presents separate from Christmas, but then when you are older, it is quite possible that you or all your friends will be hung over on your birthday.

Then, if you have a birthday where businesses give a day off, such as Memorial Day, people leave town so you don't have any friends to hang out with.

Of course, for regular birthdays, if it falls on a weekday, then your friends might not be able to do much because they have to work the next day, but at least you get dinner or you move the celebration to the nearest weekend. Of course then you have to compete with everyone else who was born in the same proximity as you.

Maybe the best birthdays are the ones where you were born on the first or last day of the month. For whatever reason, it seems significant, but you are still not a holiday.

Hmmmm....what a strange turn of events. I love birthdays and I am a true believer in Birthday week (the celebration of your birthday over a weeks period of time) and getting whatever you want. Originally I began writing this post to show that although on its face, it seems like it is fun to have a birthday on a holiday, birthdays on "normal" days are the best, but now it seems there is a bad side to every birthday. Either that or I'm just being pessimistic. Probably both.

It sucks to be in a rut.