Happy Birthday, Nee!
I don't think am a deliberate contrarian - it's more of a default state - during my 20s and pretty much early 30s- when birthdays were a reason for sundowners to dawn parties - i shirked it vehemently,
two decades later when it's perhaps a thing not to be touted because, hello - you are not a child or hello mid-life blah blah - i love birthdays - the concept, the occasion; it serves as a reminder that your self was once an innocent guileless pure slate - there still is hope.
I love birthdays, especially mine!