it’s not my birthday, but it was the other week and this nearly happened to me. Even though people generally like me (I think?) and I have actual real-life friends and actually went out with them.
Can’t say I like being reminded of how unpopular I am but it’s just occurred to me that I don’t really care either. Obviously I do care a bit otherwise I wouldn’t be typing this.
There’s this silly person on my friends list I went to school who is good at singing, who rocketed up the popularity chain in Year 10 by choosing to sing in front of the whole school in assembly and basically making a tit out of himself, which I guess was sort of ‘the point’ (no one actually took him seriously or respected him), and he later became the ‘class dunce’ type person who would always get into trouble for some stupid reason like not doing his homework, and everyone else would laugh their heads off. He now sings in this (unsuccessful) hard rock band and has a ridiculous haircut, and is always sharing his left-wing political views on Facebook which always gets a lot of attention, even though it’s mostly unoriginal middle-brow stuff in my opinion. Anyway (tl;dr), his birthday on is the same day as mine.
I just logged into Facebook and the first thing I see on my News feed is him saying ‘thanks for the birthday messages guys, I’ve only just got back to replying to all of them I love you all.’ His birthday was a whole week ago, so I’m guessing he must have got thousands of messages if it’s taken him that long.
It just amazes me because although he is always the centre of attention, nobody actually takes him seriously, yet he gets thousands of birthday wishes…
I know I shouldn’t care but every once in a while I feel like nobody likes me or cares that I exist, and that popular people like him are really rubbing it in that I got hardly any messages while they got millions. I’m not asking for anyone’s sympathy, more that I don’t get why some people are so popular given how fucking inane they are, and I just needed to vent about it somewhere…