Do any of you feel like you pretend to make a wish on your birthday but don’t actually wish for anything?
I saw a kid on TikTok making a wish on his birthday, and it reminded me of how I used to be really into making wishes as a kid. But now, even though I still go through the motions of blowing out candles in front of my family, I don’t actually make a wish anymore. Sometimes it’s because I feel like I already have everything I need, or I just can’t think of anything to wish for.
Is this just me? Does it seem weird? Do you think this says anything about my mental health or the environment I grew up in?
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I gave up on wishes a long time ago
Never given this much thought but I don’t believe I ever genuinely wished for anything on my birthday. Maybe this is why so few of them have come true
No one buys me a cake so nope.
I really wish for one thing on my birthday and 12 on New Year’s Eve (my country’s tradition). Do they come true? Some of them, but I think it’s more an exercise of choosing the thing you most want and reflect on how to achieve it.
Wish in one hand and shit in the other, see which one fills up first.
I forgot u had to make a wish
Wishes don’t actually do anything, so it’s not weird at all not to make them.
If it makes you happy to make them, then do. Otherwise, don’t.
I wish for a blow job. 50% success rate.
I haven’t made a wish on my birthday since I was about six.
I always wish for a unicorn, started when I was a kid, then stopped for obvious reasons, now I always panic and just wish for a unicorn again. 🦄 so no, not really, but every once and a while I will wish for something. Usually not material things but things like, “I hope this upcoming trip is nice.” I think last birthday i wished for my bad coworker to quit.
I always make a wish. I still make wishes with pennies thrown into fountains. ⛲️✨
I do. Just like a mental sentence to put that energy out there. For years I was severely depressed and almost committed suicide so I have to give myself those small positive boosts when I can. May be silly but yeah. My bday wishes are usually about my kids tbh
I feel like as we get older, we come to an understanding that those wishes are actually just desires. I don’t necessarily “wish” things would come true anymore, but instead see the end goal and ways of obtaining that end goal.
“Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.
I didn’t even make real wishes for most of my childhood. I just wanted to eat the cake.
I would wager that most adults don’t believe that there is any power behind a wish. Thinking about what you would wish for is more about introspection than anything else, and as you get older, it becomes more difficult to do on the spot. As a kid, a wish for an Xbox may have leapt into my head immediately. As an adult, the things I might wish for are more abstract, like career opportunities or what have you. It’s not something you have the time to sit and ponder while gathered around a ring of candles, so you pause, blow, and move on with the merriment. Thinking on wishes is better suited for a hot shower, in my opinion.
I haven’t celebrated my birthday in twenty years.