eleven (anon text) ♞ ❝you'll be smarter--more grown up and a better daughter or son.❞

[limitstorm]

Maybe this isn't the kind of thing anyone should be thinking about...

Does it make sense to celebrate a birthday after everything that's happened?

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[luxuresombre]

I only see nothing inherently special about birthdays. Or at least, not to the degree that some others do. Unless one makes a large event out of it, the day will pass just like any other.

[limitstorm]

Doesn't that make it more important? So you can make that one day different.

[luxuresombre]

If you wish to be sentimental. As I said, it's anyone's own choice.

[limitstorm]

As long as it's not taking the lives that're gone in vain, I don't mind being sentimental.

[luxuresombre]

What a sentimental sentence in and of itself.

How do people usually celebrate their birthdays, in any case?

[She knows the basics, but she wonders if it differs much from person to person.]

[limitstorm]

Cake, presents, family and friends. Some people go out to celebrate. Depends on how high-maintenance you are.

[luxuresombre]

I see. My own family has a few members who are overly invested in celebrations as well.

[limitstorm]

I'm not sure if I'm overly invested, but this would be the first time he'd be free to celebrate it.