Sunday, September 14, 2008

Birthdays!!!


Well what exactly is the relevance/meaning/speciality of birthdays???


A Birthday is always a special occassion for a person. Its not just kids who wait all year long for it, even the grown ups enjoy being pampered and loved.

When you are a kid - it’s a great time to enjoy, cut the specially made cartoonish figure cakes, open presents, be the special person of the day and run around with your friends and enjoy. As you grow older, it can be a special day to look forward to have a good time with friends, get special gifts from parents, and maybe get drunk too if you are at a proper age and if the situation is appropriate, wait to get something special from your crush/first love etc …



So what does it mean once you are over 28?

I don’t know…In some ways I guess it does feel special. From one angle it’s a day to feel some kind of joy, to have some special time with family and friends and all, to know and feel so good that most of them remember this special day and so on.


If you look at it from another angle, it is also a day to thank the God almighty for all the small and big blessings that we received till now, to thank him for keeping us safe all these years and for bringing us till here, for all our big and small achievements and so on.

It can also be a day to remember about the special people in your life, the loved ones who you miss, the little pain you feel due to not having your loved ones nearby to celebrate the occasion with you etc.

For me I guess I felt all of the above as like every human being I also have a childish side in me, a little grown up side and the mature side too… This birthday of mine on 12th Sept made me think a lot and also to not think about anything too… Hehe, pretty confusing na?


Well at a certain point I did miss my hubby who is in another country, the fun we used to have on birthdays when we were dating, the fun we used to have with friends during my life in Chennai (that’s mainly because those 2 and half years were the best years of my entire life), the fun with my best friends there and the little things I miss in life and so on…

At another point when my thinking went on to intense stuff like – why things happened so late in life; why get a great opportunity at this point of life and be thrown into a turmoil about whether to take it up or not, knowing that if I reject it I will always regret it; about why did I settle down so late; etc etc etc, I just stopped thinking at all and just went with the flow and let the day go by at its pace…


What actually made me say all this is a particular wording that was sent to me on my birthday and it said: “Why not seize the day to check out how your life is going? Rethink your errors and remember your successes, forgive yourself for your failures and take pride in your achievements. And remember that these errors, successes, failures and achievements are your story, the story of your life. And for this reason they should all be equally valued. Without them, you would not be who you are today.”

Isn’t it too meaningful? Isn’t this what we all should hear at some point in life? I feel that these words were written for each of us to understand and follow at some point in life. At a low point in life, it will make you feel positive and look at the bigger picture rather than just concentrating on the loses in our lives, about why that dint happen, why this didn’t work out that way blah blah blah…

These words somehow touched me so much in some way and it feels so right for the kind of attitude that most of us have towards life in this hi-tech busy era. We all do have to look back on life and thank God that we reached where we all are today without much scratches and problems, thank him that we overcame most of the problems and turmoil’s in life, that we became strong because of all this, that we are alive to see this day, that we are all safe and sound and that we have achieved so many things in life…

Ok I know I am getting a little too philosophical, so concluding this post for now coz otherwise it might turn into a huge novel. :P

BUT I CERTAINLY THANK GOD FOR GRANTING ME MANY OF MY WISHES … :)

P.S: I do have to say that on this birthday of mine it was thiruvonam (Onam festival of Kerala), hence i did get a proper traditional sadya with 2 payasams and all, got to cut the cake too and also got to have a non-veg dinner out with my parents (Well its a complete veg menu for onam)....Only thing was that I did miss my hubby a lot, but he did send me a gift and that was just a small relief....:)

18 comments:

--xh-- said...

belated b'day wishes... :-D b'day @ thiruvonam... apo 2 agoshavum orumichayi alle :-D adipoli...

soon i will be passing 28 and will be stepping into 29... this month itself... :)

Kelvy said...

@xh
thank u so much...ya thiruvonam and bday was on same day and it was a double celebration.. :)

ahh early birthdauy wishes to u too....well for me it feels odd to he 28...heheh

sansmerci said...

good to kno u had a nice bdya kel!

u've been tagged chek my blog :)

Solitaire said...

I hope you know that 30 is the new 20!

Kelvy said...

@sansmerci
thank u so much swar..ya will check out :)

Kelvy said...

@solitaire
heheh i hope it will feel that way wen i am 30 :P

Keshi said...

Happy Bday dahlin!

Ur only 28 and ur talking as if u turned 45. lol!

30s r the new 20...as Sol said. Here in Aus, ppl say 30+ is a BABY. :)

Keshi.

Kelvy said...

heheh...well from the kind of talks people give me, i am petrified alreday..ya i know girls should hav their first kid b4 30 and stuff...but i married late and now everyone incuding the doc seems to b giving me deadlines and i feel as if i am ta the end of my life or something lol...thanks for the wishes dear...heheh

Keshi said...

omg I cant believe wut alot of stress ppl put on ya!

women these days hv babies even in their 50s :):) wutever it is, YOU do wut YOU like Enigma. TC n be happy...ur still very young! And stop fretting ;-)

*HUGZ*

Keshi.

Kelvy said...

hehe ya...doc keeps telling abt health probs and all..so does everyone i know..pheww, thats stressful...well hope that something will work out....thanks for the support dear... :)

Anonymous said...

Well wat enigma mentioned is true ... But still in the later stages i feel like its difficult to celebrate a B'day party with family .. We can have parties with friends at any time anywhere,:).. Having a b'day party with family members is somthing different..

Kelvy said...

well i dont know if its difficlut..but after some time, it might get a little boring and stuff or it might even proove tio b like another day....maybe there is some nostalgia and stuff in celebrating with family...ya u can hav a get together with friends too

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Mysterious Mia said...

belated happy bday dear

sorry i was here before but cudnt comment earlier n hey thanks for stopping by at my blog...see ya around :)

Kelvy said...

@ray,

thank u so much...will look into the link that u mentioned about

Kelvy said...

@princess
hey thank u so much....

Anonymous said...

Belated b'day wishes dear...

that was a lovely post :)

Kelvy said...

@Tessie,

thank u so much dear...