I've never really been that much of an out going kind of person, or a person who likes to be in the spotlight that much. Due to this, this time of year, specifically my birthday has always been quite strange to me and something, that most of the time I feel like I should just go about things as normal and avoid.
This year however things were slightly different. Not in a big way, but a way that now seems quite significant looking back on it.
Going into work on Friday, everything stayed the same, as I don't think anyone there actually knew it was my birthday, as it has never come up, and I didn't do anything to rectify this. This to me was not a bad thing, as I've said I don't like too much attention on me and as there weren't that many of us in that day I just thought I'd stick to normal everyday work.
That morning before work was also pretty similar to this. My family know I'm not the biggest birthday person, and so apart from saying happy birthday and opening a few cards, it was my typical Friday morning. Again, thus wasn't bad as its the way I generally would like to go about birthday stuff. The main difference this year came on Friday evening.
About a week or two ago, I decided that I would do things a bit differently this year and actually try mark my birthday somehow rather then just letting it pass by. And so I arranged to meet up with a few friends and have a couple of drinks to celebrate. In the end, although I did get a bit cringy when they started singing happy birthday, the rest of the evening was actually pretty awesome.
I don't really know how I came to have this view about birthdays, as I say its probably just down to the whole having the spotlight on you effect birthdays have. But doing this one little thing was actually quite a nice difference. I definitely haven't been out or done anything for atleast the last few years, but next year I think I'll definitely try organising something again, perhaps with a bit more effort too.
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