Lol, after my 18th birthday nobody cared. As soon as you pass over that threshold, family won’t care.
I have spent the past 13 years reminding my family on my birthday that it’s my birthday and I’ll get a text with the usual “happy birthday, I hope you’ll have a great day” a text, not a cake, not a party, not a gift, but a text. Those time I have recieved something, it’s been because I have asked for it in a more begging way. Imagine that, you have to beg for your family to give you something on your birthday. You have to beg and ask for a simple cake. Oh and in most cases I have ended up making it myself or buying it for myself because guess again, yes.. they don’t care.
This comment was so funny you guys are so broken up about people not celebrating your birthday like you’re a grown ass adult come ON lol. Take note from everyone else and throw your own damn party it isn’t that tragic girlfriend.
Wow, did you know that it’s a human feeling to feel hurt when you have to remind your own family about something like this, did you know that people are allowed to actually feel hurt and down when you just want one day out 365, that they would actually take the time to remember and possibly celebrate it with you?
It is family and it doesn’t matter if you’re old or young, adult or a child. It’s one day that might actually matter to a lot of people and devaluing it by saying something as you just did, goes the show that you laugh at people who express a genuine emotion of feeling let down by the ones that means the most. It is not bad to actually express emotions like this.
Not to mention when you’re expected to remember everyone else’s and expected to attend, and expected to help celebrate, and expected to be happy and in a good mood. Why am I not treated with the same courtesy? Why is theirs so much more important than my own? It’s one day, one single day.
But okay, let’s say I did throw my own, you wanna know what will happen? I ask them to come and you know what the answer will be? Because I do, because I’ve heard it so many times before “sorry, I’m busy.. I’ll make it next year but I hope you’ll have a great day anyway”
It’s not a tragic thing to express emotions, it’s not wrong to express genuine hurt feelings when you’re an adult. You’re allowed to have them, you’re allowed to express them, you’re allowed to say “hey I’m a grownup ass human being but this shit makes me actually feel sad”
Being pushed to be a hardened person that bottles everything up because everyone else think “whah whah, stop whining you’re an adult act like one” is the correct response, that’s wrong. Having emotions and expressing them should never be seen as something bad or being laughed at because you’re considered an adult, it’s not something only the young and children have the privilege to experience.. even adults are capable of having a vast experience of complicated feelings, which shouldn’t be critiqued by someone who themselves has a lot of growing to do.
Next time, think before you mock someone. It won’t hurt you to show some empathy.
Slutty Yorick 