Birthdays

24/05/2020 - Iso Well-Being Compilation

 

I hate seeing pictures of other people

Celebrating their birthday parties

With lots of people hanging around.

It makes me irrationally angry

That more people bother to turn up

For their event but not for mine

And I know that this is partly why

People don’t come in the first place.

I’ve stopped going to birthday parties

Of the people I know won’t turn up

If I invite them to one of mine.

It’s just not worth the social effort

I would need to put in when

I know it’s not going to be reciprocated.

It might seem more than a little petty

But I’m too old to spend time and money

On people who hardly give me another thought

At any other time of the year.

I’ve done the same with my wedding guest list,

Even though that’s unlikely to be needed,

And I have it down to about ten people

Apart from relatives, who get a free pass

By virtue of sharing an ancestry.

So, forgive me for not getting excited

About a day no one else gets excited for,

And I’d probably faint if anyone decided

To throw me a surprise party because

They’d managed to find enough people who

Could be bothered showing up and

Could be bothered to keep the secret.