So I have never shared my love and thoughts about birthdays. It always came as a shock to me that some people didn't like their birthday as it brought a reminder of them getting old or they had horrible memories of terrible birthdays. As I got older I began to understand that. In a little over 3 weeks I will be celebrating my 24th birthday. A age that makes me feel like I'm getting older. But as I thought about their reasons and logic, as much as it made sense, I didn't feel the same way and that is totally ok. So here's my thoughts on why I love birthdays and celebrating them, whether they're big ones or small ones. I for one lost my birth family pretty young, I never got to hear my birth story. In my family on our birthdays we used to beg our dad to tell our birth story 😂 always from his point of view while my mom corrected it. Mine always started the same and ended the same. Enough to make one never want to hear it again. Which we don't anymore ( thank goodness). Well I decided I wanted my birthday to be a happy reminder to myself of the life I have and not the life I had or was born into. My goal was to make each birthday something I was thankful for having and make sure I was celebrating with the people I loved. Because if I'm going to be celebrating me one day of the year, I want it to be something I look forward to every year. And every year I end it with what I am thankful for. Because a heart of thankfulness on your special day is really important and makes it more rich. So for as long as I'm living to celebrate a birthday, I want to be reminded of all the good in it and end it on a heart of thankfulness and know that I am worth celebrating. Just like you are worth celebrating on your birthday.
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