How to enjoy your birthday as an adult

Why not celebrate making it around the sun another time?

Birthdays as an adult come with some baggage. For starters, you’re probably just going about your normal responsibilities: helping your preschooler in the bathroom, going to that insufferable Thursday morning status meeting. Your ascending age also reminds you that Father Time is undefeated. This is one year closer to the end!

But, of course, it isn’t the end yet. You’ve made it around the sun another time. If you believe, as I do, that the alternative to another birthday is much worse, then birthdays are worth celebrating, even for birthdays where the number of candles would not easily fit on a cake.

Today is my birthday, so feel free to send me birthday wishes! And in the meantime, here are five ways that adults can make their birthdays feel more festive.