It is a bit embarrasing to send birthday message, because it is friend…many people might feel so. But birthday is only once in a year, and because it is your treasured friend, why don’t you send your best wishes? Let’s think about ways to make your relationship better with birthday messages.
7 ways for better friendship with birthday messages
-For a friend you often see
Even if you see your friend everyday, send birthday message. Because messages can be looked again later, it gives different happiness than just said “congratulations”. “It’s been O years since we first met! Let’s keep hanging out for long!”. It makes the message more impressive if you write about how much time you spent together as friends.
Of course not only with e-mail, but also tell “happy birthday” face to face when you see your friend. Birthday is an important moment in life. Let’s wish for the happiness of celebrating such moment together for years to come.
-For a friend haven’t seen for a while
For friends you don’t have chance to meet so often, birthday is a good chance. Along with the birthday message, ask “let’s get together”. Most of you should have experienced that being away for a long time makes it hard to ask out, and keep you apart.
Your friend may want to meet you but just waiting for a good timing as well. If you can’t eventually get together because of the schedule, the fact you said you want to meet remains in your friend’s mind. Maybe you will be asked out on your birthday.
-For a friend who lives away
If your friend lives distant away and difficult to meet, e-mail is the best way to communicate. Send your photo and update of your days along with birthday wishes. “How are you doing? Send me your photo!” If you send such words, your friend would feel happy that you are thinking about him/her. Exclusively sent messages make people feel special. If you usually call or use SNS, sending messages by e-mail makes it even more special.
-For a friend you used to always hang out
If one of the members of group you were always hanging out moved away, he/she might feel the sense of alienation. You can get out of touch as time goes by. It is not easy to get in touch after not seeing each other for a long time. If you want to be close and enjoyable friends like you were before, let all of you in the group send birthday messages.
Maybe it is not a good idea to get together and take a photo of all of you gethering and send it, as it might worsen his/her loneliness. It is better that each one of you send message separately so that your friend receives many fun messages.
-If you missed the birthday…
Shouldn’t you send messages if you missed the day? Maybe you feel uneasy to send belated birthday wishes, but your friend must be disappointed that “not receiving a message = birthday is forgotten”.
Even if it is few days late, receiving a birthday message is still delightful. You should still send a message like “yesterday was your birthday, wasn’t it? Sorry for belated birthday wish, but happy birthday!”.
-Can be an opportunity to restore friendship
If your friendship is disrupted with a tidbit of thing, birthday can be an opportunity to make up your friendship. Send “happy birthday” and “sorry” with your honest feeling, your friend’s feeling will be moved. You can tell what he/she is thinking about you by how he/she responds to your message. E-mail is much more easier than to directly talking, so have a courage to send a message.
-When to send a message
Unlike calling on the phone, you don’t need to think too much about when to send a message. It can be read again later, so you can send at anytime. However, birthday is the special day. Why don’t you send message at the change of the day? Receiving a birthday message from friend at the midnight of the birthday…what do you think?
A friend preparing a message and waiting for a day to change. It is enough to make you happy just imagine it. It depends on life style and environment, but please try if it doesn’t bother your friend. If you know the exact time your friend is born, it is also good to send it at that time.
Could I give you some hints for your better friendship with birthday messages? The most important thing about birthday message is the feeling of “thank you for being born!” from bottom of your heart. I wish you can send such message with e-mail, that you can’t tell face to face.
Summary
7 ways for better friendship with birthday messages
-For a friend you often see
-For a friend haven’t seen for a while
-For a friend who lives away
-For a friend you were always hanging out
-If you missed the birthday…
-Can be an opportunity to restore friendship
-When to send a message