I don't like celebrating my own birthday

I feel this so hard and sorry I'm not gonna rant a bit.

I'm a mid-December baby, so I've always been shafted by the holidays.

When I was a kid, my parents always made sure I felt special despite everything going on - they made it a point to differentiate my birthday presents from my hannukah presents, and worked some scheduling magic to always throw me a well-attended birthday party.

It sounds dumb and materialistic, but I kinda needed that since I was otherwise stuck with joint gifts and afterthought cakes at holiday parties, which sucked because I got to watch everyone else have celebrations devoted to only them at other times during the year.

Then college hit and if my birthday didn't fall during finals, it was literally right before while everyone was cramming and stressed and no one wanted to go out.

Now, no matter what day of the week it is, I can count on at least one of my friends having to bail for their company party. I've gone to three of my own company parties on my birthday.

Also, someone once stole the cake meant for my work bday celebration out of the fridge because they assumed it was available to anyone 'because holidays'.

I'd really just rather ignore it all together, but people always ask me what I'm doing for my birthday and convincing me that I'll regret doing nothing so I make plans and always end up stressed and disappointed. Maybe this year the pandemic will at least give me a good excuse for just avoiding the whole damn thing.

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