This is a question I get all the time. Even as a 45-year-old adult, people ask if having a birthday in December is kinda rough? I understand the reason they ask, thinking that Christmas– and Thanksgiving and New Year’s– overshadows my own celebration.
But I actually love that I was born in December. The whole month is already so full of cheer and festive spirits so adding the excitement of a birthday makes it more fun for everyone me. Even as a child, I looked forward to December all year long and my parents were very thoughtful to celebrate my birthday usually 2 or 3 weeks before Christmas (even though my birthday is actually after Christmas). I feel that it’s kind of special, too, that I was born the day after we celebrate Jesus’s birthday. I mean, who better to follow on the heels of than the Savior of the world, right?
Mostly I’m just full of happiness about being born in such a great part of the year. But there is one drawback. It’s all of you summer babies that really have it all. Anyone born in the middle of the year gets presents every six months. How unfair is that!? 🤪 Maybe that’s why at some point in recent history, people started making their friends and family celebrate their half-birthdays… because if there’s one thing we’re lacking is narcissism (and sarcasm). As an introvert, I actually like my birthday being overshadowed a bit. Every once in a blue Christmas moon I’ll thrive with attention but those occasions are few and far between… just like parties that celebrate me… because… remember my birthday being in December? I’m also the “baby” of the family so I have a lot of confusing paradoxical qualities.
There’s another benefit of being born in late December. Each calendar year, new year’s resolutions are also goals for whatever age I’m turning. So instead of saying, “In 2025, I want to be a better swimmer…” I’d phrase it like this: “When I’m 46, I want to be a better swimmer.”
Anyway, what are you getting me for my birthday!? Oh, you already got me something for Christmas… ok.
-Out of the Wilderness
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