When Birthdays Feel Awkward

4 steps to take care of yourself

Ruth Kim
The Opening
Published in
4 min readSep 30, 2021

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Photo by David Holifield on Unsplash

Birthdays are hard for me. They feel so awkward.

A moment marked for me, for nothing more than being born.

Being me.

My insides start crawling to the edges of my being.

For most of my growing up, my birthday was just us. My family.

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