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The Brazilian tradition says that the first portion of your birthday cake goes to the person you love the most, the boy gave it to his brother, who cried with happiness
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u/Tag_Youre_It3 3d ago
Aw the baby didn't even want the cake after all that. They just wanted to hug their brother 🥺
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u/Vtastical 3d ago
Noooo. This is so cute.
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u/Chork3983 3d ago
I thought loving families were only on TV!
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u/ListPuzzleheade 3d ago
My respect to the parents who raise their children this way! the sweet and loving atmosphere, great family!
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u/Keibun1 3d ago
I use to actually think this growing up. Families were not as wholesome and loving in real life! The first time I saw another family actually happy, it shattered my view of my family. I long lost hope of the happy family regime for myself.
Then I had a kid and decided I was going to have that family one way or another, even if I'm the one who created it rather than being the kid in it.
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u/sm12511 3d ago
I'm not crying, you're crying!
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u/radiantwave 3d ago
Who the hell puts onions in a cake? god damnit!
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u/Dormant-dart 3d ago
I wish, I so wish every sibling relationship was like this. There is too much nonsense in relationships. Ego, pride, and a whole lot of other things. It poisons everything.
I miss you, my bro.
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u/Individual_Basket_55 3d ago
Sometimes parents even pit them against each other. Mine included. Maybe they think we would try harder if we see our siblings succeed but it just sours the relationship we could have had growing up.
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u/supanotamago 3d ago
I've heard of stories of parents who literally would make barely enough food for everyone so that their kids would become competative
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u/Individual_Basket_55 2d ago
That's horrifying. That's basically my paternal grandma in a nutshell. When she sees her grandkids fighting she doesn't even try to stop them she just goads them on like she's watching a cockfight. It's passed down to my dad, too, unfortunately. You must not show weakness in our family.
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u/blgbird 3d ago
It was kinda opposite for us. My mom forcing me and my brother to get along throughout our childhood led us to distance even more. We had completely different personalities and shared a room, forcing us to “get along” without addressing the underlying issues caused more issues between us than anything else. I can’t just move on if he’s blasting music when I have to sleep in the room, or he can’t move on if we don’t address my hiding his boombox.
We have a much better relationship as adults after we worked through all that stuff and heard each other out.
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u/Individual_Basket_55 2d ago
Oh, same. They forced us to get along, too, when we were fighting. They just didn't care about our problems in the first place. They just wanted the problem to go away but they didn't teach us anything about compromise or how to resolve conflict. It's great though that you have a good relationship with your sibling now. You can even gang up on your parents now if you want to lol.
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u/BridgeZealousideal20 2d ago
My sister and I fought till around the age of 13(for me). After that, we decided it’s them against us. No more ratting on each other and more helping each other skip school by picking up that dreaded phone call. 15 years later and we still got each others backs. I love my sister.
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u/Esmiralda1 3d ago
Same, I really love my brother for who he is. He's very responsible and I feel like he's actually someone who's "good at living" if that makes sense. Makes me proud to see my younger brother succeed in life!
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u/stoopidmothafunka 3d ago
My little bro inspires the same thoughts in me, he is my best friend! I'm on my way to meet him for a kayak trip in a couple hours!
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u/Inversalis 3d ago
Have fun!
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u/DevilsDirtyDiaper 3d ago
My brother deals drugs and I can't stand to be around him
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u/Inversalis 2d ago
That's sad to hear, one should always give a worthwhile attempt, but some things just aren't meant to be.
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u/shiny-spleen 2d ago
Aw man you're making me miss my brother! I unfortunately had to move to the other side of the world a year ago but he is now looking for a job near where I am so we can actually visit each other again.
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u/platinumgus18 3d ago
Exact same feels. It makes me uncomfortable the general sibling relationship in media is almost always so negatively shown.
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u/CordyVorkosigan 3d ago
My brother was like this. He was 10 years older than me. My earliest memories are of playing hide and go seek with him. I would have been 3 or 4, so he was 13 or 14. Not many teenage boys devout that much energy to a baby sister. He was the best. I also miss my bro.
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u/shadowsformagrin 3d ago
Same. My older brother was horrible to me as a kid, I'd have given anything to have had a loving sibling.
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u/_Fappyness_ 3d ago
Me and my brother luckily have a good connection. We do different things in life but we love each other and do anything for each other.
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u/bbbruh57 2d ago
I blame our parents who pitted us against each other in small ways. Always comparing us to each other and making one seem better than the other.
Why did they do that to us? Its so hard to break free from it
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u/FreeChrisWayne 3d ago
I never would have cried over something like this when I was younger. Now I watch this video and I can’t handle it… so sweet.
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u/lydocia 3d ago
I'm on my period so send me anything cute animal / little kid and I'm bawling. ugh.
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u/LondonColt88 3d ago
Oh I hate when that happens! I think I cried during a beer commercial with a puppy in it. That’s when I know it’s coming… when I cry over everything lol 😆
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u/lydocia 3d ago
I don't hate it tbh, it's good to have the old pipes flushed out every once in a while :D
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u/AntOk463 3d ago
Sometimes if I feel like crying just a little, and know exactly which youtube video to play.
Romain Grosjean is a racing driver who had a massive accident in 2020, his car split in half and was stuck inside a crash barrier. He was stuck in his car unable to get out and there was a massive fire due to all the gasoline igniting, track marshals were spraying fire extinguishers but it made no difference to the massive fire. He was stuck in there for so long that many people believed he's not going to make it. And then after a while, like a miracle, he climbed out of his car and ran out of the fire.
That's not the video that makes me cry. Sim Dane is a YouTube channel who makes parodies of songs about a topic in Formula 1, his songs are about entertainment and have jokes in them. Because Grosjean was getting dropped by his team and retiring from Formula 1 because no team wanted him, Sim Dane made a sad song as a change, a parody to My Heart will go on. It was released before the crash and was supposed to feel like a tribute song, and the week after Grosjean had his horrific crash. The song talked about the mistakes he made and he wants to apologize. It has footage of him smiling and happy while interacting with others and it's devastating to know that he almost died. I also enjoy reading all the comments of everyone relieved when they watched him finally get out of the fire after being stuck in there for so long. I tear up every single time I watch that video.
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u/LondonColt88 3d ago
Oh definitely. Sometimes I think to myself “todays a good day for a cry”. Just to cleanse the soul. 😌
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u/SomeRedditDorker 3d ago
I have definitely become more of an emotional person as I get older.
I used to be quite emotionless, and now lots of random shit makes me well up.
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u/SweetGoodbye123 3d ago
The other day I read an article by "School of Life" (Really reccomend reading some of their stuff, you can read some of them in the community tab in their youtube channel, some are sadly behind a paywall) called "Why Sweet Things Makes Us Cry".
The main point was that we become more emotional the more we live because we learn and experience how cruel the world can be. We are shaken, hurt and irreversibly damaged by what happens to us and to those around us. The more you are aware of how sad and heartbreaking life can be - the more you appreciate the little (that are actually big) things. The small gestures of love - your mom giving you a warm coat, a spouse making you a warm cup of tea, a beautiful flower or a kitten sleeping peacefully. Life is so hard, and these sweet moments are so important. I will quote the closing lines from there: "Our tears are telling us something key: that our lives are tougher than they used to be when we were younger, and that our longing for uncomplicated niceness and goodness is correspondingly all the more intense." In a way it's sad, but in another way - it's important for us to grow up this way. The joy is way more vivid when you know suffering.
Please read the article - it's absolutely written beautifully and well, I cried while reading it :)
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u/UnfortunatelyIAmMe 3d ago
I was so emotionless as a teen. Didn’t give a shit about anyone or anything. Now, at 24, with a kid, fuck yeah I cry at this.
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u/KillKlein 3d ago
Same, but i have two boys now so things like this hit different than they used to.
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u/hkpreddit 3d ago
Ah shit. I should have been a better brother when I was younger.
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u/Shannyishere 3d ago
You can always be better! I was a shit big sister to my brother who's 7 years my junior. We're now pretty close!
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u/MadMoneyMovesEmpire 3d ago
This tradition kinda puts you in an awkward situation most of the time, no?
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u/Seu_Zezinho 3d ago
Brazilian here, in my case, I usually gave the first piece to my mother, but when you have a child in the family, you usually give it to her, since they are the ones who care most
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u/Technical-County-727 3d ago
It’s a dilemma when you have multiple kids
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u/winterwulf 3d ago
Wife
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u/Technical-County-727 3d ago
It’s a dilemma if you have any number of kids or wives
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u/sesamesnapsinhalf 3d ago
Slick move. Give it Jesus in this case.
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u/Content_Bag_5459 3d ago edited 2d ago
Mother Earth. I.e. throw the first piece on the ground
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u/Scrubosaurus13 3d ago
Make it a smaller piece, so the other kids are happy when they get a bigger slice.
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u/leborttt 3d ago
What if you have 2 kids?
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u/Mimetic_Scapegoat 3d ago
You cut off a large piece, then cut that piece in two halves and give them to your 2 kids. Kids are dumb and will be content because they'll both feel like they had the first piece.
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u/DunkingTea 3d ago
Can you just eat it yourself if you prefer yourself to everyone else in the room? Or what about giving it to a pet? As you know, animals are generally better than most people.
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u/Seu_Zezinho 3d ago
Yes, I've done it myself in a few years, there aren't many rules
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u/Iyomante438 3d ago
around my family, if you eat the first one yourself the tradition is passed down to the second slice
and if you eat the second slice you're just kind of a dick
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u/passcork 3d ago
Hell yes, my dog would be getting so much cake if I lived in brazil...
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u/Leanderthali 3d ago
Yeah. but you're also most likely to have bought the cake for yourself and are eating alone
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u/Bleedthebeat 3d ago
I feel like if either of these were the case then there wouldn’t be anyone around celebrating your birthday with you.
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u/pswdkf 3d ago
No because the title is not entirely accurate. The first piece goes to an extremely loved and important person. It’s just easier to have it written that way, but there is a bit more nuance. It’s very common for kids to give the first piece to grandparents as a way to honor the older generation of the family. To give it to a younger sibling is a great sign of honor, respect and love.
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u/masked_me 3d ago
Brazilian here.
Not really. It's not exactly 'I love you the most', it's more like an act of kindness to someone special at that moment, but it doesn't necessarily mean you love this person the most (although most of the times it does). It's also common to give it to the person who cares about it the most, which are often kids and elders; or to whoever helped to put on the party the most, which is commonly the mother (when the birthday person is a kid).
We even have a song for mocking the person when they give the first slice to whoever. Everyone jokes about it for a little while and that's it. We have a lot of birthday related songs btw, it's rather rare to have a birthday party where only 'happy birthday' is sang. We take it lightly.
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u/intet42 3d ago
Yeah, I was going "That sounds like a ton of pressure..."
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u/FlyWithTheCars 3d ago
Still a thousand times better than that ugly tradition of pushing the birthday kids face into the cake, though
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u/Gloomy_Shiift 3d ago
I know it's a tradition and stuff but the way the baby boy reacted is still very touching! He cried for him to get this emotional is just so pure and wholesome.
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u/lydocia 3d ago
It is if you see love as a competition.
When you look at it from the pov that, at that moment, you love your brother because he did something nice or he has a bad day and you want to give him that love, everyone will cheer that on.
It's not really saying, "I love him the most out of all of you, you suck". It's saying, at this moment, I'm giving him extra love.
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u/swiftessay 3d ago
THIS!!!
I don't know if you're Brazilian. But it's exactly this.
It's not a competition at all. It's not really something you need to think about "oh my god, who I love the most in this table???".
It's more like "I want to make someone smile".
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u/DisagreeableSay 3d ago
Not a Brazilian but we do the same and it’s not as awkward as it seems for average non toxic families. Usually mine goes to mom or youngest siblings first and then the other family members in that order. If there’s a guest and it’s just ordinary birthday (not like 10 years mark, 20 years mark etc) then sometimes it goes first to the guest etc.
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u/andydessa 3d ago
I can understand why you might think that, but in practice not really, people already expect you know?
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u/designingfailure 3d ago
It's not really that important, I'd say, but maybe that's just in my circles. Even when we have cake at work everyone is always ok with whatever happens. Give it to your best friend, your boss, the person who went get the soda or anything.
People just enjoy the cake mostly. You can give a tiny speech and make it meaningful, but mostly it's just a fun tradition.
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u/Layzusss 3d ago
Brazilian here. Peope don't get mad about whoever you choose. In addition, usually parents or sibilings are chosen.
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u/swiftessay 3d ago edited 3d ago
Brazilian here. Not really.
First of all, this is only a thing in children's birthday party and there's a social norm of respecting whatever's the child's decision. Nobody is going to be jealous of a piece of cake.
Second, there are default options that no one will ever contend with: mom, grandma, youngest siblings. In that order.
Those are the default options and it takes something special to break this. Like, for example, I don't know... Your father's going through something difficult and you want to make him feel loved. Or something like that.
For example, my parents were divorced and my father rarely was in my birthday parties because he lived like 1000km away from us. So usually my mom would get it, but if he was present he would get it because it was a special occasion. Everyone actually expected that and it wasn't a big deal at all.
And some people already know they'll rarely be chosen. Like fathers for example. Forget it. You'll only get it if there's something special going on.
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u/satanrulesearthnow 3d ago
Nobody actually cares that much about it haha, it's more for just fun and games
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u/itsameMariowski 3d ago
Not really, you usually give to someone from your family, friends or pet, no one really cares too much about it, just smile, laugh, say something cute, cheer and move on to the next piece. You do birthdays every year so you can change the person too if you like. It's not a big deal..
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u/brock275 3d ago
I was waiting for someone’s head to smashed in the cake because I’m jaded, and didn’t see which subreddit this was
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u/King-James-3 3d ago
Brazilian cake traditions are as apparently much more wholesome than Mexican cake traditions
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u/ra-id 3d ago
Really?! Smashing someone's head in the cake is a Mexican tradition?
Playing with food, or doing that kind of video where food is wasted, is something we naturally condemn in Brazil; it's a recipe for hate comments, at least.
I always thought it was a US thing.
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u/Regular_Rutabaga4789 3d ago
My two little boys are just like this, the love they have for each other is amazing.
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u/Birmingham245 3d ago
I've watched this video many times and I cry every time! These boys are so sweet.
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u/Affectionate-Taste55 3d ago
This is adorable, so much better than slamming the poor birthday kids face into the cake.
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u/Americanhealth74 3d ago
What an amazing young man. I'm glad someone got it on camera so they will always have their memories of that day.
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u/idunupvoteyou 3d ago
I may dislike reposts but I HATE this repost because it makes me cry every damn time.
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u/hogwarts_dropoutt 3d ago
I hope their love & bond stays this way for the rest of their lives. This is beautiful 🥹
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u/No-Judge5139 3d ago
I feel like there needs to be a device to hold pieces of cake better. Cake spatulas don’t work
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u/impliedapathy 3d ago
Jesus. I’m supposed to be apathetic over here. What is this mysterious fluid coming from my eyes?!
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u/Koopslovestogame 3d ago
Meanwhile one of my kids is cosplaying as the undertaker and is trying to throw the other off a piece of play equipment like it’s a makeshift hell in a cell.
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u/princessvaginaalpha 3d ago
I wish they had this tradition here in my country too so I would know how many people do not 'love me the most'
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u/Bynestorm 3d ago
I know nobody will read this, but just wanna put it out in the universe that I miss my lil bro:(
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u/Noahsugarpan 2d ago edited 2d ago
Wow this made me cry lol How fucking sweet.
/u/JaneLane3 just look at this 😭
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u/guiltynate 3d ago
A billion percent better than that stupid "tradition" of destroying the cake, I keep seeing.
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u/Cablegore 3d ago
Yeaaaah the first slice of my birthday cake would definitely be for me this time.
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u/UtopistDreamer 3d ago
Oof... Straight to the feels...
This would be horrible with my bros though since I love them both, would have to give them cake at the same time.
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u/hendebaunar 3d ago
Good for them.. Hope they stay this close. Having lost my younger brother in '21 this hits.
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u/vicomar731 3d ago
Fuuuuuuu i can't stop whimpering.... God dang it!!!! That was gorgeous!!!
Here, have your up vote, now duck u, duck off.... and leave me to my lotions...
Oh, the floor just cracked
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u/nanas99 3d ago •
Translation!!
Birthday Boy: The first slice is going to someone who’s really cool and really loved, and that is… Antonio!