Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The Older I Get, The More Skeptical I Become

    Today, (27 July, 2011) is my nineteenth birthday. Yes that's right the last birthday of my teenage years. Another thing that is significant about this birthday is that your secular and Jewish birthday are on the same day on your nineteenth birthday. However I woke up today just like every other day. I did not feel special and I was in a bad mood for most of the day.

  One thing that annoyed me was that the the nineteenth birthday is a very insignificant birthday especially since you can do everything at nineteen that you could do at eighteen such as, vote, buy a cigarette, get married etc. I hate when people get a birthday high, when in fact to everybody else your birthday is just another day. I am awaiting my twenty-first birthday, just so that I can throw a party in a bar, not because I am a social person or, because I enjoy drinking (which I occasionally do.) I will throw that party just to show that I as a person have gained another right.

  However, one thing that offends me most are the people who pretend that they actually care that it is my birthday. Most of the people who wished my happy birthday on Facebook only knew that it was my birthday because, Facebook told them so. I do not mind it as long as these are people are people whom I encounter on a regular basis and/or actually give me a birthday wish that is not as cliche as the stereotypical "Happy Birthday' wish. Those two words take less than 30 seconds to type. One person put in the effort and actually posted this amazing video where people sing For He is a Jolly Good Fellow in Klingon. I find having my BlackBerry vibrate throughout the day just so that I can see "Happy birthday", or "Happy bday" to be quite irksome.

   I like Facebook because, otherwise I would be ignorant of my surroundings and upcoming events and is a useful tool for school, but I really hate getting those insincere happy birthday wishes especially when I have not had any contact whatsoever with that individual for years or months to be very hurtful. If that makes me in South Park terms a "cynical asshole", then so be it.