The best and worse birthdays

[kewleyes]

best:

18 - you're no longer jailbait. you can buy cigarettes, legally watch porn, and vote. how liberating is that? and in indian casinos, you can gamble!

21 - you can do everything, including buying drinks! if i had a choice to stay one age forever, i'd want to be forever 21.

80 ( if you're chinese ) - chinese people dig the number 8. they like it because it resembles the infinity sign, and it stands for longetivity. if you live to see your 80th birthday, you get a big old ( no pun intended ) celebration for reaching such a momentous milestone in your life.

worse:

22 - because after turnining 21, every birthday after that just sucks. you're just getting older and older, there's reallly nothing to look forward to except turning 40.

40 - the dreaded over the hill birthday. some fear it more than the apocalypse. this usually signals the onset of the midlife crisis, where men buy expensive sports cars and women think about plastic surgery to make themselves feel younger and better. what's worse than turning 40? being a 40 year old virgin.

anything above 80 - my biggest fear is not death, it's getting old. the thought of being all old, wrinkly, and weak scares more than anything in this world. since i'm chinese, i do wish to live to see my 80th birthday. then i wish to somehow magically pass away, painlessly in my sleep the day after. if that doesn't happen, will someone promise to kill me? i won't press charges.

[dreampegasus]

have you heard of the concept, where life is divided into 8 stages?

Is anyoune intrested to know?

[hhope1]

I'm coming up on my 22nd birthday and already I'm starting to feel old and wrinkly. eew.

I think the best birthday would be your 25th because you have been around long enough to know something about life, but you aren't old yet.

[sugarglider]

My most disappointing experience in life was proudly going into the newsagency on my 18th birthday (in my school uniform and everything) and asking for a one of those scratch lottery tickets. To my absolute dismay, I was not asked to show ID!

But turning 18 was great. Where I live, you can do everything when you turn 18, including buy alcohol, and even drink it!

I agree that 21 is really cool. I remember my 21st birthday party as being one of the happiest times of my life.

I remember 23 as being the first time in my life I actually wished I was younger. Up until then I had always wanted to be older.

I think the main reason most people get married is that after 21, you don't really have any more fun birthdays to look forward to, so you have to have a wedding to make up for it.

I'm not telling you how old I am (I'm old enough that it's rude to ask), but when you get to my age you just go 'Oh no, not another @*$^&#$% birthday!'

[vickileigh]

Each and every birthday is great for me. I am 41 and am always happy for the part of my life that I am in. I never wish I was older or younger or smarter or prettier or richer. I have a great husband and 3 great kids and happy for every stage of life that I am going thru at the time of my birthday. I do wish that I could have my kids be the little peanuts of their baby days, but that wouldn't be good for them and eventually I would be too old to chase them. Life is good so while we have it we should enjoy!!!!

[robeau]

When I turned 75, somehow I expected things to be different. But no -
I am still the same person I was last year. I notice some other people have got older, but I am still the same person.

I still think the same things. I still remember the same things [well - most of them]. Sometimes I cannot think of a word or a name. I guess this is probably because I have not used that word or thought of that person for a while.

If I look in the mirror, I do see a slightly different person, but I feel the same as I have always felt. I enjoy the same things. I hate the same things.

The best part is that I can remember things from long, long ago - such as seeing my first airship, my first monoplane, my first television set, my first jetplane, my first long playing record, my first CD, my first wife, - oops, how did she get in here!

And I guess, when I am 76, it will be more of the same. Enjoy life. Enjoy your birthdays. I am sure it is much better than being dead and gone.

[humpty]

Excellent theory!

And I guess, when I am 76, it will be more of the same. Enjoy life. Enjoy your birthdays. I am sure it is much better than being dead and gone.

Love that!

As for me, hmmm, I somehow don't really fancy all the birthday parties, I rather spend it really romantically with that someone special, and since I haven't found that someone special now, birthdays are like another reminder that I'm getting older yet still not having that special someone beside me to celebrate it. Then, I'll tell myself, next year, hopefully it'll be different form this year.

Sadly, these occasions don't only appear on birthdays, it's the same for valentines' day, christmas, and basically most of the other special days in the calendar.

I guess it's the need to share your life with someone you really want to share your life with, this is why people celebrate things, to share the happiness. So, best birthdays or worst birthdays, if it's worth celebrating, be happy about it and spread the happy virus around your loved ones. There's no need to feel sad that you're growing older, everybody's growing older everyday anyway. :D

[sugarglider]

I think it's all true - your birthday is a little signpost of where you are in your life, how happy you are, how much you enjoy the things you do and the people you're with, rather than just a clock ticking away telling you how old you are.

If you love life, you love having birthdays.

[pussykitty]

Yeah, enjoy your birthdays!

On my birthdays, I don't really care if I've grown a year older, it's a great day worth celebrating and partying, worth being joyful about.

Hey life's so miresable already with so many things in our lives, why wanna bog yourselves down with your own birthdays feeling older, come on, it's the perfect occasions to throw all your worries away and just enjoy life. Though it's just one night, well, it's a great short getaway don't you think.

So, why waste it, enjoy your birthdays to the fullest!

[sugarglider]

Oh, and I almost forgot - birthdays are the one day of the year when you can eat as MUCH chocolate as you like.

[slutty87]

i loved the 21st birthday the most, finally getting the license to do so many things in life that we can't do in the past, it's a sign of freedom to me