Birthday Week (Day 2) : Death by Stress and Birthday Greetings
That’s exactly what day two was about – death by birthday greeting and work stress. In a matter of hours, the semi-festive mood I was in on my birthday disspated when faced with the reality that one:
1) Birthday aren’t what they used to be. Its blow the candle, celebrate a little, and then back to work folks. (Wow, do I sound jaded or what). After the cake and the laughter, I go back to my desk and realize all the stuff I have to do then I wonder, what the heck am I doing here. Deal to close, emails to answer… and thus resumes the daily grind.
I’d celebrate this year but I gotta save up for a crazy October.
2) I have a ton of greetings to reply to.
Thanks to the convenience of texting, facebook, twitter and plurk, sending someone a greeting has never been easier, faster, convenient, and more impersonal than ever. Thus, due to the convenience, you get a flood, and i mean a flood of greetings. Some ARE sincere from people who really do care, some genuinely do want to greet even if you are not really close friends, while the others… i get the sense that facebook birthday alert makes them feel obligated to ‘greet’ because facebook now does all the remembering for you!
With about 80 FB greetings, it would be insane to reply to each one so, since we are in the age of convenience, I did what everyone does, a mass thank you.
It would be nice to reply to each one but that’s just not practical with all the things that are needed to be done..
(But then, you gotta admit, it does kinda nice to see the number of people who do take the trouble of going to your profile and typing “happy birthday” on your wall)
