Birthday Blues: Changing the energy around my birthday

The morning of my birthday, I opened my phone and went into Facebook and it had started: the well-wishes. People I haven’t seen or talked to in years posting to my wall, and that’s when it struck me. It wasn’t the age increasing, it was the energy around the day. I felt overwhelmed by the pressure to ‘have a great day’ and more. That year, I even got a birthday wish on Facebook from a man who has been a total jerk to be in person for years, but is posting niceties on my wall (weird).