How do you like your birthday party?

[FlawlessHappiness]

Hi

As of today I am 20 years old for the next 365 days.
This birthday I chose to do something different that all of my other birthdays.

It has always been tradition in my family that we have a party for the birthday-person. Especially if they're still kids.
Sometimes it's big, with the whole family involved.
Sometimes it's small, with just the parents and siblings.

Either way, a party is held, with cake, flags, and songs.

To me, that's fine, but it's not something I find particularily fun. I don't like having lots of people in the same room, and I don't like being the center of attention in that kind of situation.
I like the food, and I like the idea.

So for my 20th birthday I didn't want a party. I had a fairly long conversation with my mother about my life, where we also happened to talk about my birthday and that I didn't want a party.
I feel like it's weird not to want a party, but at the same time it's totally up to the person themselves.

In a couple of hours I'm going to go to a café and eat lunch with my parents. Just the two of them. It may be a little weird as they're divorced (but not angry at eachother in any way) but that's alright, I hope.


How do you like your parties?
Do you only want to do it with friends? Only with family? Do you want your friends at the same party with your family, or have two separate parties? Do you want many people or just a few?