muladhara | (no subject)

helvetica asked: What is your favourite birthday memory?

I do not remember my birthdays so much. I mean there are ones here and there where I think yes, this was my birthday. Like my fifteenth when I had a massive nosebleed in school, and bled all over my science homework, and the dining room table, and possibly myself. My best friend at the time took me (and my bloody belongings) to the nurse's room, and cleaned me up, and we had a conversation about Keanu Reeves while she stopped me crying and bleeding. Or the one where I went swimming with a different friend at the local pool (but I can't remember how old I was). I don't even like swimming!

I never had birthday parties, because I lived in a small council-owned house, and we were very poor. So we couldn't accommodate other children, never mind afford food to feed them. So, like, there's not a particular birthday party I remember (or there is, but neither of the ones I recall are my own).

However! I do have a positive answer for this question.

Last year, I had a really nice birthday. I turned thirty-five. I dug out the record player, and my LP of Low, and I baked cookies all afternoon. It was a surreal experience (because a lot of Low is instrumental and, I dunno, I don't think David Bowie intended it as a baking soundtrack). But it was me, in a warm kitchen, doing a thing I liked, listening to music I liked.

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Your last birthday sounds pretty great. Parties and ceremony are wonderful, if that’s your thing, but just being able to do what you want is the best use of “birthday time” of all.

It really was. I just felt so chilled at the end of the day.

Made me happy reading about your recent birthday last year ♥ sounds like a good one. I hope you have another good one this year 8D

I've never had a party on my birthday either.

It was a good one. Thank you :)

Your last birthday sounds amazing!!! :)

When I asked the question I didn't really htink of my own answer. As a child, my only memory is a painful one too! I begged my parents to take me to a petting zoo and when we got there I fed a horse to a carrot and it bit me pretty hard. I was bleeding a lot, but I was afraid if I told my parents we would have to go home and I had barely seen any of the other animals so i just walked around the zoo holding my hand tightly and not petting anymore animals until my mom saw the blood dripping off me

My later, adult birthdays have been much nicer haha

Thanks :)

Oh no! That sounds awful (I always used to be scared of getting bitten by horses when I was younger).