Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Happy Birthday to ME!

Birthday celebrations, what a concept! But do we know what we are REALLY celebrating on that specific day? Do we celebrate the day we were born? The day that we entered this life and started our search for true happiness and personal success? Do we celebrate the fact that we are getting older? And therefore we are becoming more knowledgeable, experienced, and perhaps mature? (Not to mention...OLDER) Are we actually celebrating all the accomplishments achieved during the last 365 days of our life? (Accomplishments that also remind us of the many failures and halfway dropped projects?) Or are we in fact celebrating the idea that we have survived another year of financial and personal distress?

I don't personally enjoy birthday parties. Well, who doesn't like receiving gifts and attention? But in the end the idea of having a party on my behalf is NOT my favorite thing to live through. I do thank those who sent their best wishes and truly remember me throughout the year (not just my b-day). I hope this coming year will allow me (and us) to complete some of the halfway projects we forgot along the path.

I do not need to age anymore or lose any more hair though. So let's all pretend I'm permanently 36. By the way, I just finished reading "The Alchemyst", the story of an immortal man, a man that didn't age. Now, that's a concept and it should be saved for another post!