Well, maybe he means that you should celebrate actual achievements instead of dates that just happen every year. The YouTube video he linked didn’t tell to completely stop celebrating birthdays. Just limit it to a total of 20 birthdays for most people (you get more if you live really old).
Counterpoint: birthdays (and cake days, and many anniversaries) are a pointless celebration.
Payton Oswalt had a pretty good plan on that: https://youtu.be/sbJs-Ul1QFo
How are they pointless if they bring people joy? I know there are exceptions but I’m pretty sure people generally really like birthdays…
I will need an explanation of this one. Are you saying that people don’t like birthdays?
Just that once you hit a certain age….its no longer fun to be reminded
Well, maybe he means that you should celebrate actual achievements instead of dates that just happen every year. The YouTube video he linked didn’t tell to completely stop celebrating birthdays. Just limit it to a total of 20 birthdays for most people (you get more if you live really old).
What if you’re working the same 9-5 job five days a week and it pays you well and you’re happy yet you don’t have any new achievements
Then you can get drunk without celebrating I guess
Have we really gotten to the point of being demeaning to people simply because they celebrate their fucking birthday?
NO HAPPINESS ALLOWED! GET BACK TO THE COAL MINES!