WHY: Remember in elementary school, when it was normal to invite your entire class to your birthday party?
...then you reached an age, maybe towards the end of middle school or beginning of high school, where you were presented with the authority to choose. The authority to choose who got to come celebrate, anddd who didn’t necessarily need to be there.
The new and exciting choice you got to make was a pivotal point in your coming of age.
As you got older, the excitement behind this decision may have diminished. Suddenly, you recognize all of the different people you know from all of the different environments you’ve existed in. We have the newfound work friends/colleagues, the hometown friends, the college friends, the friends from that summer job you had growing up… all of these different personalities, and although at the end of the day, you find yourself loving each and every one of them, it may not be the best move to put them all in the same room.
Now you’re an adult and yet again, wondering why it falls in YOUR hands to plan an event that surrounds the celebration of you. In questioning the whole system of birthday celebrations, your mind starts to wander to alternative options.
If only there was a solution to this yearly distress...