Birthdays

Birthday: an anniversary of a birth

A birthday is a day of celebration; you only get one a year and it marks the yearly anniversary of the day you were born. Every year there are many people who don’t get a birthday celebration because others simply forgot, for most, a birthday causes grief.

For the people who get forgotten every year, it’s a type of grief that is hard to express. When you are surrounded by people who know you’re birthday, who know you, but they forget your day, it’s rough.

Remember that a birthday is for you, treat yourself. It doesn’t matter what else anybody remembers, what they forget, what they do or don’t do. Treat your day and make it how you want. Forgetting what others don’t or wouldn’t do for you is challenging but it’s also something that is best for you.

Looking past what others don’t do for you but still celebrating them shows that even if they forget, that you still remembered.