assuming you were once excited about it and no longer are excited. when did the change happen?

this will be the 2nd year i'm non-plussed about mine. i dunno if it's a permanent change or just a thing i'm going through now.

sitting on the porch with a "#1 SON" T-shirt on holding a half deflated balloon like "DAMN...IS IT THAT HARD TO FIND A CARTON OF NEWPORT 100s ON THE SOUTH SIDE?!?"

Fuck my birthday, yo

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hugs my nigga..

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I stopped caring about my birthday some time around 30, but I REALLY stopped caring when I had a kid

and i wanted to be fancy so that's why i went w/nonplussed.

GOTCHA!

its been over 15 yrs. finally got your ass.

this deserves an archive lol
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But they're both wrong. Lol

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/nonplussed

^^ the word means confused, unsure how to react. And that's what I meant to say.

you wont steal my joy, devil - kirk franklin

you wasnt surprised by your birthday! you knew that shit was coming you just dont gaf. youre not non plussed. just take the L & back back we got a parade to throw now


does it really matter?

wonder what bin's doing?
http://i.imgur.com/phECCMp.jpg

To the point where I cannot plan a celebration bc I'm so conflicted about how I feel.

Sorry, Charlie.

does it really matter?

wonder what bin's doing?
http://i.imgur.com/phECCMp.jpg

Since 1976

>GOTCHA!
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>its been over 15 yrs. finally got your ass.
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"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

It's been used incorrectly so frequently that the alternate definition gains acceptance.

Yall let irregardless slip in, I am taking a stand on non-plussed.

IT DOES NOT MEAN NOT CONCERNED!!


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def stopped celebrating it so to speak by 30


does it really matter?

wonder what bin's doing?
http://i.imgur.com/phECCMp.jpg

My daughter (11) is always excited so that keeps me somewhat excited I guess. She made me a slightly burnt cake last year. It was cute though.

For me, they all kind of ran together. I get excited because me & the lady may take a little trip or go to a cool restaurant or something. And she even threw a big party for me around 35-36. But birthdays aren't that big of a deal to me anymore. I turned 40 last year and she asked what I wanted to do. I told her nothing. Let's do a little bar crawl together and hit that new restaurant. And that was it.

And it's gotten me in trouble with other people because I forget to make a big deal about their birthdays either.

and no...i'm not following instructions.

but growing up my birthday was never a big deal. i'd get a gift or two...we maybe did dinner. but i think i had one party. so i never mad a big deal of it. then i got to college and one of my boys was like...you better celebrate. that's your day. and he's right.

you share holidays if you even believe in them. i mean technically...Christmas is for the Christians and Veteran's Day is for the veterans. Columbus Day and Thanksgiving are for oppressors. Memorial Day is for dead people. you really never get a day.

so i've grown to love my birthday. sometimes i buy a new suit just for the occasion, and 99% of the time i won't be at work. my birthday is on a Wed this year. ain't shit gonna be going on, but i guarantee you i won't be at work. i love myself and that's the most important day of the year. followed by Thanksgiving. i love Thanksgiving even tho the reason we celebrate it is some bullshit.
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it's true what they say...people are strange, when you're strangers.

not compassionate....only polite.

I am not like you at all and i cannot pretend.

but i'll have a 3 day weekend to make up for it. lol

normally i feel about my birthday as you do about yours. i dunno what's up these last 2 yrs.

take some good drugs and just go on an unplanned adventure.
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it's true what they say...people are strange, when you're strangers.

not compassionate....only polite.

I am not like you at all and i cannot pretend.

so maybe I will take Friday off or Monday off.

I never knew that was a thing until OKP.

For years I shrugged off my bday but an older lady at Walmart was like CELEBRATE that shit, life is too short, be happy for making it through another year.

people die, yo.
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it's true what they say...people are strange, when you're strangers.

not compassionate....only polite.

I am not like you at all and i cannot pretend.

>CELEBRATE that shit, life is too short, be happy for
>making it through another year.
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>For years I shrugged off my bday but an older lady at Walmart
>was like CELEBRATE that shit, life is too short, be happy for
>making it through another year.

I'd like to adopt this attitude about it tho...

Everything since has paled in comparison

Then i started reading World news and history and needing a glass of scotch after social studies class

*Insert Debbie downer gif

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson


"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

It's the fourth birthday since I moved up here. Still not THAT close with people here and I don't like toning it down for my birthday. So I'm going out and doing some punk rock karaoke.

and I was actually somewhat excited about. mainly cuz folks at work and the kids were excited.

mine is tomorrow.


fuuuuuck yooooou.

happy early burfday to you.

mine is tomorrow too.

shit use to confuse me as a kid when I tell people I was cancer and they'd argue I'm leo.

happy burfday to you. enjoy it!

my birthday always falls around memorial day and sometimes ON memorial day (may 29th)
after i had a party at sport-o-rama that barely anyone showed up to i learned to not get too hype for my bday
i had to realize most people have obligations centered around family and bbqs around that time

i mean i have a good time on my birthday most years
but i don't get crazy excited or anything
if stuff happens, great
if nothing happens, cool.

i've had some really great birthdays though
my expectations are just really low

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"Love your haters until they can love themselves and then love them further." ~ J. Case

I was sick, and didn't do anything but hit a random club the next week.

I was sick, and didn't do anything but hit a random club the next week.

my birthday is on christmas eve. it would always get lost in the holidays. i'd often get 1-for-2 presents ("it's for birthday and christmas!"), which was very disappointing when i was a kid. getting friends together for a proper party around that time was nearly impossible so i usually had to have my "birthday" celebration some time in the summer or fall. those parties always rang false to me so i stopped having them after the 2nd or 3rd one

i absolutely hated my birthday from ~22-32 years old. i guess that's still technically caring about it... my goal then was to try to sleep or self-medicate my way through it. i got pretty good at doing that. i don't hate it anymore but my preference is to have the day pass without incident and minimal acknowledgement of it. i'm more interested in being able to hang out with my family on christmas

the corner, which meant folks were gonna be tugging at my pockets again

"If you wanna help us, fine. Sit down with your kids and make 'em study at night...otherwise, shoot THIS mothaf*cka!" (c) Morgan Freeman,

dele downer, I know.. sorry :(

parents gave me $ and then threw me a surprise party anyway

which was a generous and classy move on their part

but yeah i was never gassed on being the focus of celebratory attention

because it's around thanksgiving
let's just say i'm used to being disappointed

edit: i take that back, i spent 31 in thailand. that was the best birthday ever. the rest suck.

turn up.

NO ONE WAS BUYING ME PRESENTS LIKE THAT...

ROUGHLY 17-18.

loooooooooooong time gone... nowadays it is becoming even less than unexciting.

.. there's still some moments.. but I'm old

I could care less but I guess she wants to have something big.

Posting pics on fb, talking bout "dem Leo's comin"

Muhfuckas posting birthday related shit days in advance. Not party plans, just ' I can't wait' 'the turn up is real' type shit

I be feeling like Morpheus n shit, tryna explain the matrix to simple-ass Neo

'So....you're celebrating a moment in life you don't remember, notated by a man-made concept designed to make you feel as if there is order to the way a person ages?'


I never really gave a fuck about birthdays though, but I always quietly played along, just to not be a contrarian ass nigga. This year was the first year I was adamant about letting it pass like any other day, and it felt great.

It's (somebody's) going down this year, though.

My bday is next friday and other than my usual bday massage i have nothing planned.
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Music is almost everything.

i didnt really do a damn thing this year accept let everyone that wanted to kick it take me out to lunch/dinner all week.
i think i partied or went out every year before that.
this year i was just whatever about it.

Fuck what I was talkin bout. It's my birthday weekend and I'm turning up for 39. All weekend. Bc I didn't have to make it through another year. And I'm doing well and there's promise for things to get better. It's on.