“It’s like she’s allergic to birthdays,” her mum told me. Hard relate.
I never do much, in fairness. The world is divided into those who make a big deal out of their birthdays and those who don’t, and I believe you can tell absolutely everything you need to know about someone from which of these camps they fall into.
You may possibly have deduced from subtle clues that I am in the latter camp, the non-celebrators. The cringing blushers. Birthdays literally make me embarrassed to have been born. I’ve always felt like this. But I’ve had many parties, gatherings and drinks over the years because if someone asks you what you’re doing for your birthday and you say nothing, the reaction you get is, I imagine, the same as you would if you announced you’d recently murdered your entire family.
I enjoyed maybe six per cent of the evening at a generous estimate. The snooty staff were whatever the polar opposite of welcoming is, the table was long and not-conversation-friendly. Out of the corner of my eye in all directions I could see people who’d never met before awkwardly asking each other how they knew me, like at a wedding, but without the getting married aspect to distract everyone.
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This decade, it’s a different story, because of all those cliché rewards of getting older that are meant to make up for what’s happened to my neck and eyesight, but don’t. I know myself well enough now to be sure I will not enjoy a big do. I have the guts to say nope and stick to it no matter how many times someone suggests, insists, cajoles, or tries to shame me into having one.
Instead I’ll do a few, low-key little separate things with a few, low-key little separate groups. I’m going to please myself, because IT’S MY BIRTHDAY. Tune in next week, to hear all about the utter horror of my huge surprise party.
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