When I was a young child, I anticipated my birthday celebrations. Since it was not a family tradition, I slowly extinguished that desire. I never knew which years would be celebrated and which years would be met with silence. It was easier not to anticipate than to be disappointed. Gradually, it became a win if nobody remembered it was my birthday on the actual day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Privately, I am often happy to be alive to reach another milestone. I celebrate in my mind and private emotions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As you have gotten older, do you still celebrate your birthday, or has it become just another day to you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Truthful Tuesday<\/a> Mar 16 2021 prompt was hosted by Frank the PCGUYIV. <\/p>\n When I was a young child, I anticipated my birthday celebrations. Since it was not a family tradition, I slowly[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artmater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21157,"href":"https:\/\/artmater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21156\/revisions\/21157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmater.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}