Yea, so I was born today...

Many many years ago, in a small room in some hospital...I was born. So what? I am happy about it, but nothing is happening to me on that same date now, apart from the fact that I get to add a single unit to my age and a whole year of "maturity" to my life. How does it bother anybody for that matter.

People go to party on their birthday. Its an excuse to begin celebrate. And I will not deny that even for one minute. But, if you dont feel like celebrating that day? Why do people have to go about asking what are your plans? And why do they have to sound so concerned when I tell them I'd rather not celebrate?

It is my day. I have the right to do as I wish. I wish it were a normal day. If not that, I wish that by some crazy way, this date was simply skipped. Never to be bothered again. I wish I did not have to face all the people I know and tell them..."I dont care if it is my birthday. I don't see anything special happening to me. Why should I bother? Nothing really happens to me on any other day. Its just some little issue that is going to get exaggerated for something to happen. Guess what? By some miracle, nothing's happening to me today either! Imagine that. Is it not unfair. My birthday. MY DAY. And yet, nothing great is happening."

What are the pros of a birthday? We get back in touch with more than half of the people in our address book. We get a congratulations on the fact that it is that day again when I was welcomed into the open arms of...the doctor!!!

Well, not bad...I guess. An excuse for the party-halls to get booked and dance halls to welcome new feet...for those who wish to celebrate the day that way. But for some, its just a regular day when they have to wake up early in the morning, get ready and get on with the usual boring work. And by the time they're through with that, they are simply too worn out to party hard...or as they wish, perhaps party soft...

So, I ask again...It's MY DAY...why are YOU so bothered that it is not going according to the general idea of a SPECIAL DAY...nothing's happening to me today!!!!