If you're still going to spend a few thousand lei for a five-year-old's birthday party, maybe it wouldn't hurt to ask yourself: why do we celebrate birthdays, exactly? Where did this extravagant tradition begin? In today's society, we keep track of birthdays and a large part of what a person can or cannot do is related to their age. For example, we go to school at the age of 6, we drink alcohol legally at the age of 18 and we can get our driver's license then, and at the age of 35 we can run for the presidency. But...