The Reason for Birthday Parties?

[buffysmglover]

This is probably more directed towards the younger age group:

I was thinking about what I have planned for my birthday party, and I had a moment, a moment in which I asked myself "Why do we celebrate with friends?" A birthday party is meant to celebrate our birth. Why do we go to so much trouble to spend the day with people we haven't had an affect on and who may not see or have a reason to celebrate our birth? Because we don't. My sister's party is going to have 70 people at it, and I'm sure at least half of them secretly hate her, and se probably knows half of that half hate her. But she's still inviting them.

So then I asked myself "Do we invite those who want to celebrate the day we were born, or do we invite those we want to spend the most time with? Do we invite people who give a damn about us, or people we want to spend another day with so we use our birthday as an excuse?"

My answer to this is that I believe that a celebration should only include those that feel the need to celebrate that specific topic, in this case, the birth of another person. However, I'm a hypocrite in a sense for believing this, because I don't believe all the people I'd like to come to my birthday party have any reason, need, or desire to celebrate the day I was born. And I'm inviting them for a chance to spend another day with them.



So, I'm interested in your opinions on the subject.
Thanks mucho.

Tim

[mattitudev2]

When it comes to celebrating birthdays, I'm all about making it totally about me. When it's my birthday, it's my special time and I feel like it's my time to have all of the attention on myself, which includes having all of my friends celebrating with me.

Basically, I'm a hardcore supporter for someone always having their ideal birthday and getting to do what they want to do to make it the best birthday they can imagine.

[Mathieu]

I am not a birthday party person. I am always embarassed when lots of people come over to celebrate with me something they don't care about. I celebrated my birthday only once in my whole life when I turned 18. But it was also a going away party as I was leaving France for a long time. I think birthday parties are just a lame excuse to just party. But I don't like the opening all the gifts moment.

[buffysmglover]

My birthday parties aren't even really parties. I just inivite people to go to dinner. My sister does the whole party thing. I think its stupid and a waste of money.