Celebrating birthday appears wasteful for me except it is done for young ones to make them happy or people who have cross age of 75 years to celebrate their achievements

It amuses me when we congratulate each other for our birthdays, yes I used the word we-because even for somebody like me that does not believe in it intrinsically, the society has configured most of us to engage in this norm in order not to be view as an "adversary" of the "celebrant" but crossing line of four decades brought reality closer to me once again.

In sincerity, I believe if birthday must be done at all, it should be for those below twenty years.
I believe anything after two decades on earth, once should be celebrating achievements and not just years of living. And when I say achievements, I do not mean houses, cars or other material stuffs…we should be celebrating inventions, books and our contributions toward uplifting the standard of living of people around us and the world in general.

Example of what I mean is the celebration by Pastor Fola Oyediran, a friend of mine, known as Amos koko in our ICA days , that recently marked his 40th birthday with 40 BOOKS, yes with 40 motivational/spiritual books!

So when next is your birthday, please celebrate something not just your years!

The last time I celebrated my Birthday was when I turned 12 years old (I'm now in my 20s).

I have never celebrate any for self but remembering doing for my first son when he clocked one year partly due to my wife insistence. Honestly, I have no reservation for those that do it for young ones but cannot understand why adults celebrating without influencing society positively through their contributions to humanity. My point is that we should be celebrating our contributions to the society/humanity and not just our years because truly when we add years in terms of new age, we are actually nearing our graves!