From blowing out candles to opening presents, birthdays are typically celebrated the same way each year. While the annual celebration may seem repetitive, there’s a lot more behind it than you might not realize. Check out 10 of these shower thoughts about birthdays that will likely surprise you.
1. Well, that’s one way to look at it.

If you think about it, birthdays are really satanic rituals about chanting around a flaming object that represents the amount of years taken off your life, upon which the flames are blown out and a knife is stabbed through it.
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2. Who would’ve thought?

Too many birthdays will kill you.
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3. What a bad birthday gift.

If the apocalypse ever happens its going to ruin someone’s birthday.
4. Seems pretty unfair to me.

Birthdays are weird cause your mother did all the work and you all the praise.
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5. Mind. Blown.

At age 30, you’ve spent a month having birthdays.
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6. Does this make us a year older than we thought?

Your first birthday is your second birthday.
Izismile
7. Happy New Years!

Your birthday is your actual New Years Day.
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8. Add that to your bucket list.

If you die at 100, each birthday added 1% to your life completion bar.
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9. This will boggle your mind.

Two babies born at the same time but on different sides of the world means they have different birthdays.
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10. A valid question.

Do twins ever realize one of them was unplanned?
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