When I was younger, I could never understand parents, particularly my dad, saying they didn’t want anything for their birthday. It wasn’t some big special event and no amount of presents were necessary.
Blasphemy!
Birthdays are for parties and cake and ice cream and most of all presents! Lots and lots of presents. Unwrapping them, playing with them, showing them off to all your friends. Birthdays were the best as a kid.
As an adult with kids now, I finally see where my parents were coming from. I’ve yet to actually forget my own birthday, but yeah it doesn’t have the same luster.