So I LOVE birthdays. I love your birthday. I love his birthday. I love her birthday. I love my birthday. I'm all up for celebrating EVERYONE on their special day (and sometimes making that last at least 2 weeks.)
A lot of people don't like it that facebook has birthday reminders because it makes the congratulatory comments from friends who never speak to you otherwise seem generic and trite. I, however, do not see it that way. I don't care if all that happened was that someone glanced over, saw my name on the "today's birthdays" sections, clicked it, wrote "happy birthday" and then moved on never to think of it again. I LOVE that for that 1/2 second, that person thought about how it was my birthday and wanted to wish me well. It's always interesting to me which friends from the past will reappear on my facebook wall on my birthday.
Take that and add phone calls, texts, and emails, and lunch dates. I derive my energy from social interaction and positive relationships. So, needless to say, all of this birthday attention winds me up big time.
That's the long way to basically say that I'm really, really lucky to have such wonderful people in my life, however distant they may be.
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