BIRTHDAYS...
it has been just two days since i have been writing the blog, and i alredy feel like i am more addicted to it than the indian cricket matches that i have been watching since the last .. i dont remember.. maybe from the day i was born.. well india has definetly given brth to another new religion .. its just that you often ask yourself that why i am following this.. but we often do end up watching the matches and keep on discussing about them without any reason..
well the same i think also goes with birthdays.. we kindda celebrate our birthdays with such pomp and show every year whether we are 66 or 16 or 6.. its just that we all wait for that day and keep the countdown going till the day comes..
the week before passes in the unending and when the day comes it seems to have passed so quickly ..though we all ( almost.. if you exclude the 36.7 percent of the 1 billion population who do not even know when they were born and another 20 percent who know that on which they were born but have to do away with 2 bites of a roti on that day.... wait! did that just crossed the 50 percent... arjun munda heres your majority for the jharkhand assembly.. just pay some attention to them instead of your swiss bank accounts) seem to enjoy athat day and try to make it a memorable one...
it involves a lot of spending , time and most importantly, one tends to miss the beauty of the other days of life.
a lot of excitement surround the birthday party of a friend and people often talk about how the birthday party was last year and keep guessing how it will be this year( oh .. i think i was mistaken in thinking that it was the. friend's birthday and not the party's birthday.. or was it).
but the question here is firstly, just what is so special about this day that has the capapcity to undermine the importance of other days and what is the chance it will be the most memorable day of your life..
well, some may say that it is just a way to get in touch with old pals.. but how often is it that we end up calling our old pals.. the friends who end up being at the party are mostly the one's a person meets often if not daily.
or are birthdays a means to celebrate one's existence on this planet.... hadn't some wise person( not aasaram bapu obviously) said sometime that the happiness that giving is the biggest source of happiness...
its not that i am against celebrating birthdays.. in fact even i do celebrate birthdays ... but the thing is that what is the need of celebrating the day with such pomp...
recently i was reading a news which stated that dior bags were given as return gifts( though at a pre wedding ceremony).. but for christ's sake if you are in possession of such great wealth then please give some to the IT( income tax not information technology) department ... so that they can at least give respite to all those rich who are might be worried about the government seriously considering taxing them more... just kidding... i mean if you have so much then please do something for all those people for whom that same day holds as much importance as to you.. those people who share their day of birth with you.. but unfortunately in the worlds largest democracy cannot afford even one time meal. just spend some time with them and the joy that one gets to see on their faces is just unmatched.
well, at least that's my idea of birthdays..
there is one more thing which i find pretty odd about birthdays.. people expect you to remember their birthdays and wish you on your birthday.. and may god save you from the ire and the tantrums.. if BY MISTAKE you forget their birthdays...its kind of a bigger crime than those the delhi gangrape.. and may god be with you if you forget your girlfriend or boyfriend's birthday...we just seem to forget that the person who failed to wish me a HAPPY BIRTHDAY was there when we neede him the most..
uuuhhh.. there is one more thing which i find very odd and even after putting all my wit i am unable to understand it.. we often keep a check on who all invited us to their birthdays and make sure that the person who celebrated his/her birthday without inviting us ... is not given an invitation to our birthday... i guess had we had the same tit for tat attitude in other situations then this world would have been totally different .. dont you agree?.. its just the way it is .. isn't it..
but i still hope that people do celebrate birthdays whether i do or not...
recently i was reading a news which stated that dior bags were given as return gifts( though at a pre wedding ceremony).. but for christ's sake if you are in possession of such great wealth then please give some to the IT( income tax not information technology) department ... so that they can at least give respite to all those rich who are might be worried about the government seriously considering taxing them more... just kidding... i mean if you have so much then please do something for all those people for whom that same day holds as much importance as to you.. those people who share their day of birth with you.. but unfortunately in the worlds largest democracy cannot afford even one time meal. just spend some time with them and the joy that one gets to see on their faces is just unmatched.
well, at least that's my idea of birthdays..
there is one more thing which i find pretty odd about birthdays.. people expect you to remember their birthdays and wish you on your birthday.. and may god save you from the ire and the tantrums.. if BY MISTAKE you forget their birthdays...its kind of a bigger crime than those the delhi gangrape.. and may god be with you if you forget your girlfriend or boyfriend's birthday...we just seem to forget that the person who failed to wish me a HAPPY BIRTHDAY was there when we neede him the most..
uuuhhh.. there is one more thing which i find very odd and even after putting all my wit i am unable to understand it.. we often keep a check on who all invited us to their birthdays and make sure that the person who celebrated his/her birthday without inviting us ... is not given an invitation to our birthday... i guess had we had the same tit for tat attitude in other situations then this world would have been totally different .. dont you agree?.. its just the way it is .. isn't it..
but i still hope that people do celebrate birthdays whether i do or not...
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