Greetings 

I would like to talk about birthdays. How do I feel about them? How important they are for me? How would I choose to celebrate my birthday if could do anything I wanted? and so on.

Thank you in advance. 

Birthday is a day celebrated worldwide by many cultures. From buying a cake and getting together with your dearest people to having your earlobes pulled, as it happens in Hungary, this date is full of meanings and traditions attached to it. But what about what we individually think and feel about this date? How would we celebrate it given the opportunity of doing anything?  
The most interesting part of these questions is how our answer changes depending on the phase we are living at the moment. When a kid, I used to enjoy my birthdays a lot, we would have a cake, sing happy-birthday-to-you song, I would get the gift that I had been wanted. I always felt that my birthday had to be an important day. As the years went by, this perspective changed, some traditions were lost, but I still held the idea that my birthday needed to be, to some degree, special. Lately, even this meaning is somehow forgotten, birthdays have become a mere confirmation of one more year that I had in my life instead of that day that would wait for a year long to come around. 
Despite this image, I just lined out, if I could celebrate this day with no restrictions, I would throw a big costume party. I would invite a lot of people. I would dress up as famous media personalities, such as Madonna, Merlyn Monroe, Beyonce and so on. I would like to be carried around like a queen or a diva would. Every shred of futility I was able to find I would add to it since, normally, I wouldn't organize such an extravagant party. 
Although each culture has its own traditions, each person possesses their own thoughts about the day. As a result, we can see people being creative about how they celebrate the day, and as a consequence of freeing themselves from their traditions. If birthdays are supposed to be your day, why not celebrate it the way you want it or not celebrate it at all if you don't feel like it.