a very merry un-birthday

birthdays are a pretty vain celebration. celebrating the day you were born as if it was something important and expecting others to do the same. if anything people should congratulate not the birthday person but the mother who suffered through hours of excruciating pain to push a baby out of their vagina and pay thousands of dollars for a hospital to help. birthdays: the day mothers and wallets suffer. but back to the main point, why should we celebrate peoples birthdays? why are people so sure they are a blessing to this earth? we are suffering from over population so maybe its a curse for babies being born now. maybe we shouldnt celebrate the birth of a new child but the very small decrease in resources and the slow quickening of the effects of global warming (more people eventually driving cars etc...thats how that ties in) what about children who are unwanted? mistake pregnancies, people who dont want children but ended up with them anyways for one reason or another...things like that.  do we celebrate birthdays to celebrate the fact that you have survived earth for however many years? because now a days its not that hard to really survive. with advances in modern medicine, decreased threats of the plague small pox, newer and safer building codes which decrease the threat of collapsing buildings that spontaneously combust, and the decrease of people who live in areas in which a carnivorous or dangerous animal (ex: man eating tiger or wooly mammoth) also inhabit the general threat of people dying off that quickly has severely decreased. for gods sake we have people who live to be over a hundred! so thats not what we are celebrating. and we arent celebrating any major accomplishment on your part, even famous people like composers like Mozart or famous scientists like Einstein dont have their birthdays widely celebrated. so we arent celebrating your accomplishments. but the most interesting part is that its anticipated for other people to want to celebrate your birthday too...every one should be saying happy birthday and presenting you with gifts but whos to say that they should have to? they might not even like you...they might not want to and they honestly dont have to. so even though i still dont really understand why we should celebrate others birthdays i guess its kind of like a support system for them, similar to attending an event like a play or something and clapping, celebrating or remembering somebody's birthday and making them a heartfelt card or buying them a present is just like that, only for support, and only for those who care, or care enough to feign caring.  but next time nobody remembers your birthday or you dont get a present, dont get upset, its a vain celebration anyways and the only person who should have to celebrate your being alive it is you.