Just a day like any other.
Ask HN: How do you celebrate your birthday?
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#12I take the day off. I go for a long walk in the countryside somewhere with my partner. I eat a bunch of food of the sort that I wouldn't usually allow myself to eat, in larger quantities than I would usually allow. I don't worry about being productive or doing anything I don't feel like doing.
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#13I have a wife. I don't celebrate.
Re: Ask HN: How do you celebrate your birthday?
#14I have a wife. I don't celebrate.
Are those two things related?
Re: Ask HN: How do you celebrate your birthday?
#15If it’s a thing for you, then celebrate it. Personally I hate the pressure of gift giving or making a big deal about it and practically beg people to not mention it. Unfortunately there is a social stigma where people feel they have to acknowledge it.
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#17I invite friends over and usually celebrate it for a week. Have done so for decades. I don’t want or ask for gifts; don’t want more stuff.
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#18When you're a child, birthdays are important because this is how you grow up. As a young adult, it's important for your social life. As a mid-life adult, it's depressing, because it's one more year closer to death...my birthday is now a source of anxiety, so I just don't celebrate it. But still happy to receive a present, which never happens anymore, sadly!
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#20Last year we were holidaying in Drakensberg (mountaneous area in South Africa) and for my birthday I've decided to run the "Big 5" hike which involves climbing five hills in the area (it's at Cavern). About 20k with ~2000m elevation gain. Took me 4 hours and I was pretty much dead at the end, but the best birthday gift I gave myself, ever!