Today is 1.29.2009 and I am writing to say that I will not be celebrating my "birthday" tomorrow. I know as people get older they don't want to be reminded about how old they are, but that isn't why I don't want to celebrate...

Birthday is the name given to the date of the anniversary of the day of a person's birth.

I've decided that an "annual" event is just really not important enough to be a cause for a celebration. What are we really recognizing in a birthday? The fact that I made it another 365 days without killing over dead, Wow, BFD. What exactly is a year anyway? 365 days = 8,760 hours = 525,600 minutes = 31,536,000 seconds.

Most people would agree once you reach a certain age your birthdays become so routine that they start loose meaning. I think it is because as you celebrate more birthday events they start to loose their importance.

I think of it like this... let's say I'm 6 years old. I can remember my last three birthdays, when I turned 3, 4, and 5. At this point in my life I have celebrated 3 important milestones. And probably have had three memorable parties. Now I'm 37. Do I remember anything special about previous birthdays, not really. Unless they correspond with some of the more important "right of passage" birthdays. Like the 16th, yeah I can date! The 18th, Lotto tickets and porn mags, The 21st, drink alcohol "legally", The 24th, cheap car insurance. Otherwise these events are basically all the same.

So I'm working on an idea that would make a birthday celebration scale that increases the interval the longer you are alive. Here is the way it works so far: Celebrate a birthday every year for the first 21. Then celebrate every other year for 9 intervals. Then every 3rd year for 3 intervals. Every 4th year for 3 intervals. And from then on celebrate every 5th year. When you have lived on the Earth for 100 revolutions around the sun you will have celebrated your existence 50 times. Plenty for the average person…