Today, I realized that I’ve gone out of my way every year to make everyone around me’s birthday extra special. I can’t remember the last time anyone celebrated or remembered mine. This year my “best friend” scheduled her elective surgery I’m supposed to take her to on my birthday. What a party. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I turned 22. Instead of cutting my own cake, I stood by and smiled at a friend's belated birthday party. Her birthday was actually two months ago, but she decided to have her party on my birthday. No one remembered mine but everyone got her beautiful gifts. FML
Today, it's my birthday, I once again had to remind my best friend of this fact, like I have every year for the past 20 years. FML
Today, I celebrated my birthday with my friend who has the same birthday by going out to dinner with a bunch of our friends. The waiter brought out a cake for my friend but not for me. No one noticed my exclusion. I sang happy birthday on my birthday. FML
Today, I found out that my best friend was having a birthday party and I wasn't invited. I had just finished planning a surprise party for her. FML
Today, it was my best friend's birthday party. Her boyfriend and I agreed to organize a dinner date to surprise her and celebrate. They celebrated, but forgot me until they arrived at the restaurant and saw the dinner reservation under my name. FML
Today, it was my birthday. Two of my best friends forgot it, and so did my grandparents. All of my friends were busy, so I spent it alone in my car. FML
Today, and recently, many of my friends have been acting strangely. My birthday is coming up soon, so I thought maybe they were planning a surprise party. Nope. Turns out they've just been secretly hanging out without me. FML
Today, I wished my best friend a happy birthday with a long, heartfelt post on social media. Turns out her birthday is next week, she'd just set a trap by changing the date on her profile. I was so confident that I even added, “Finally remembered this year!” FML
Today, it was my friend's birthday. She's been having problems with most of her friends besides me lately, so I wanted to do something special. I brought her a cake. Me and her were the only ones to have any. It gave us both food poisoning. FML
Today, my friends threw me a surprise birthday party. I was genuinely surprised—and also genuinely hungover from celebrating my birthday alone the night before because they'd all told me they were busy. FML
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Chazzster 32
There are not usually many openings to schedule surgery - Elective or not. I had a minor surgery on my own birthday a few years ago. Give your friend getting the surgery a break - Right now they probably have bigger worries than birthdays... OP, I get that some people are givers and some are takers. But you need to keep your perspective when it comes to your friend's surgery. Try reminding your friends of your upcoming birthday... Birthdays are big deal when you are a kid. Trust me as you get older they get less special.
D J's MOM 17
I think you need better friends. sometimes it's better to be alone than be surrounded by toxic people.
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D J's MOM 17
I think you need better friends. sometimes it's better to be alone than be surrounded by toxic people.
Chazzster 32
There are not usually many openings to schedule surgery - Elective or not. I had a minor surgery on my own birthday a few years ago. Give your friend getting the surgery a break - Right now they probably have bigger worries than birthdays... OP, I get that some people are givers and some are takers. But you need to keep your perspective when it comes to your friend's surgery. Try reminding your friends of your upcoming birthday... Birthdays are big deal when you are a kid. Trust me as you get older they get less special.
Yudith 28
Sounds like you are the one who needs to make your birthday extra special as nobody is as good as you at planning birthdays.
JaneSimple 28
Did you try telling your friends it's your birthday?
Brightside86 31
So was the elective surgery actually your surprise party?
Billsonhamsen 17
I often complimented my wife on her looks. She is very beautiful. Eventually we had a long discussion about what kind of compliments she would prefer. She prefers compliments about her personality. I stopped complimenting her based on her looks and she didn't even notice. I thought I was making some grand gesture by often complimenting her. Different people need different things. It sounds like you're expecting them to treat your birthday the same way you treat theirs which is almost logical. They may not appreciate it the way that you expect that they will and so they may not be inclined to return the favor. My wife for example cares a lot about birthdays but I don't. Just don't be too hurt when people value things differently than you do.