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Why Are Birthdays Celebrated?

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 Hello , of course, I won't start with " Welcome to my first blog! ". As you don't know, today was my mom's birthday, dad brought a strawberry cake and we make a surprise for my mom in the evening. She was so surprised and happy. She blew the candles, we ate the cake deliciously and drank tea -I am saying this as an experienced Turk that drinking tea with everything is a daily activity for us- . Then a question came to my mind: Why are birthdays celebrated? Almost everyone has celebrated their birthday at once. Gifts that were given, cakes that were made, and best wishes that were told on birthdays make people joyful and make them wait for eagerly the next birthday. Have you ever think why you celebrate your birthday while these things happen around you? When we look at the past, we see that only significant people's birthdays are written on (for example, sons of Babylonians) . The first celebration in history belongs to the E gyptian Pharaoh around 3000 BC. T...