Why Birthdays are the Best
On the day this post goes live, it’ll be my birthday!
Birthdays are my favorite celebration for this reason: Birthdays are the only time in life that we celebrate someone just for existing, and not any achievement, accomplishment, or relationship.
In short: YOU’RE STILL ALIVE, LET’S HAVE CAKE!
Seriously though, I think part of it is that my birthday is at the beginning of the year, so I turn on the pot on a new year and it gets to a boil just in time for me to celebrate! But to me, the biggest thing about birthdays is taking an opportunity to celebrate yourself, to reflect on both the year past and the one ahead. For some people (like me), that always comes with joy and excitement. For others, it comes with some more complicated feelings: disappointment, trepidation, sorrow. Allow yourself to hold all of your feelings on your day, even the ones you don’t necessarily like.
If you’d like to celebrate, here are a few ideas:
Get yourself flowers or another treat you really enjoy
Take the day off work, and just relax
Do something fun that you don’t really have time to do otherwise
Book yourself a spa day or a day at an amusement park or a day at the beach
Go to a new place that you’ve been meaning to visit: a restaurant, museum, art gallery, park, etc depending on where you are on your birthday
Plan a small gathering with loved ones
Plan a large gathering with loved ones
Journal about your hopes for the new year ahead of you
Journal about what the year past has brought you
Your birthday is yours. It’s okay to choose to do something nice for yourself on this day.
