Birthdays and Me

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If anyone asks me the least favourite day in a year, I would say it's my birthday without a second thought. Birthday which is an event to publicly announce someone's age and to give a party and to receive gifts in which corporates can sell birthday cards, gifts and party arrangements. What makes me angry is giving superficial gifts, which doesn't mean anything to the giver or the receiver.

I don't know what I fear the most, that I am getting older by one year, or that I have spent the last 12 months without achieving anything I wanted to achieve in my life. I sometimes wonder how time has slipped through my cupped hands on my birthdays. And the other personal reason is something bad always happens to me on my birthdays. 

So if anyone asks me for birthday party, I would say that I hate birthdays. When they ask for a birthday treat, I would quite oblige to them as it is what social protocol demands of me. Or sometimes when I'm out of control I would shout at them.

I would say a new way to mark the birthdays would be to tell it by the number of years a person got to live according to the lifespan of that year. So each year the person gets reminded of how many years he's got to live. So he will know how short the life is and start enjoying it and achieving their goals. 

Until someone or myself find the fountain of youth or the philosopher's stone or the blood orchid, birthdays will be least favourite day of the year. So friends please don't wish for my birthday or ask for treats.

Location: Colombo, Colombo

Comments

  1. UnknownJuly 23, 2012 at 7:35 PM

    I also dont want to celebrate your birthday. But the unwritten rule of society says"celebrate a friends birthday". I'm also a member of that idiot family. Ok, I don'n want to celebrate your birthday, and you don't have to invite me for the party. It's up to you. But god says some thing to me, that"full fill your friend's one of the wishes every year". So what, am also a son of god. I have to do what he say. Ok. No matter what, wait until August 6th, see what happens.....

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  2. rame20002007July 23, 2012 at 8:47 PM

    That's what I am saying if the social protocol demands me of that, I have to do it

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  3. நெருடல்களுடன் நிதுJuly 29, 2012 at 10:41 PM

    Oh dear
    U r gettn experiencd rathr dan gettn older.
    though u ddnt achieve, u built the path for that :)
    If u kw ur terminatn, fear of death may confuse u n achieving and finding the life happy.
    May live the life how it is directed.
    waitn for Aug 5th

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