Birthdays After 22 Kind Of Suck
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Birthdays After 22 Kind Of Suck

The suspense is over, you're old.

Christina Bays
Dec 20, 2016
Sam Houston State University
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Birthdays After 22 Kind Of Suck
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Growing up, the one day a year you look the most forward to is your birthday. Presents, cake, friends, and everyone is giving all their attention to you. Every childs' dream. Recently, I just had a birthday — for the 24th time. And honestly, I just don't care to celebrate anymore. I'm officially in my mid-twenties and I don't understand how this has happened because yesterday I was turning 15.

The big birthdays are always fun. 10, you're finally double digits. 13, you're finally a teenager. 16, you can finally get your license. 17, you can finally see an R-rated movie. 18, you can finally get into a club. Then the big one, 21, you finally have a alcoholic beverage! 22 is always fun, too, because you can dance like a crazy person to Taylor Swift's song 22 and not get judged because well, you're 22.

But now that I've just turned 24 — ew — I feel no need to celebrate. It's weird because you think that you'll want to celebrate the day God brought you to this planet; But frankly, dinner with your favorite people and a couple of drinks then a movie sounds great. You only want to go out to celebrate just for the pictures and make it seem like you have a social life when in reality, you just want to sit and binge watch some show on Netflix.

As you get older, the birthday wishes shrink with it, too. You only get a hand-full of Instagram posts versus the past where everyone's timeline was you. You stop caring about who texted you "Happy Birthday," but are thankful for the ones who did wish you a "Happy Birthday."

Birthdays are a time to be thankful for life, and thankful for the people in your life who love you enough to celebrate with you and that's all that really matters after 22.

I guess the next birthday to look forward to is 25 where you'll be a quarter of a century old. Now that's something scary. Then after that it's 30. Then soon enough you'll be 50.

Still hoping that someday soon they'll come up with the cure to death and we can all stop aging and just live forever. That would be cool. But until then, I'll just keep growing.

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