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azurelunatic) wrote2001-09-11 08:37 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2001-09-11 08:37 pm
this should never happen on my birthday (attempted e2 node which did not go through)
Your birthday is supposed to be a special day, where all of your friends and relatives bestow gifts and affection upon you.
Some people are unlucky and have birthdays on or near major holidays, such as New Year's, or Valentine's Day, or Christmas. These people find that their birthdays are overshadowed by the adjacent holiday. Other people share birthdays with siblings, which also detracts from the "this is *my* day" aspect of the personal holiday.
The worst of all is when your birthday happens to fall on the date that some inconsiderate terrorist, restrictive government, irate foreign nation, or other random lunatic decides to commit a noteworthy atrocity, or a dire emergency occurs.
Even if it's a small atrocity, your birthday for that year is near-obliterated by people discussing the atrocity or the emergency. If it's a huge enough issue, the date will be remembered for years to come only as the day when, oh, say, the Chinese military ran tanks over protesting college students, or the day when terrorists crashed airplanes into major buildings, and only incidentally by your friends as your birthday.
Nobody should commit any acts of terrorism on my birthday. No one should commit any acts of terrorism on any of my family's birthdays. Nobody should commit any acts of terrorism on any of my friends' birthdays. Nobody should commit any acts of terrorism on anybody's birthday.
Some people are unlucky and have birthdays on or near major holidays, such as New Year's, or Valentine's Day, or Christmas. These people find that their birthdays are overshadowed by the adjacent holiday. Other people share birthdays with siblings, which also detracts from the "this is *my* day" aspect of the personal holiday.
The worst of all is when your birthday happens to fall on the date that some inconsiderate terrorist, restrictive government, irate foreign nation, or other random lunatic decides to commit a noteworthy atrocity, or a dire emergency occurs.
Even if it's a small atrocity, your birthday for that year is near-obliterated by people discussing the atrocity or the emergency. If it's a huge enough issue, the date will be remembered for years to come only as the day when, oh, say, the Chinese military ran tanks over protesting college students, or the day when terrorists crashed airplanes into major buildings, and only incidentally by your friends as your birthday.
Nobody should commit any acts of terrorism on my birthday. No one should commit any acts of terrorism on any of my family's birthdays. Nobody should commit any acts of terrorism on any of my friends' birthdays. Nobody should commit any acts of terrorism on anybody's birthday.
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