Birthday
This post in no way diminishes or denies an exceptional day.
Birthdays work backwards. Instead of being showered with gifts praise and exceptional affection, the birthday person should give back to the world. The people around you, your friends and parents sustained you through another year of your life as much as you individually have. A life requires people to live it with and for, and a celebration of a year or a person should celebrate those people as well. It relates to the way the subject/individual forms: in relation to others, bound up in them.
I would rather give a thank you to the world on my birthday.
Birthdays work backwards. Instead of being showered with gifts praise and exceptional affection, the birthday person should give back to the world. The people around you, your friends and parents sustained you through another year of your life as much as you individually have. A life requires people to live it with and for, and a celebration of a year or a person should celebrate those people as well. It relates to the way the subject/individual forms: in relation to others, bound up in them.
I would rather give a thank you to the world on my birthday.
posted by Duncan at 9:59 PM
1 Comments:
Sounds a lot like J.R.R. Tolkin's description of hobbit birthdays in the Lord of the Rings. I liked his conception of birthdays.
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