What makes a
birthday so special? Is it the colorful
floating balloons, moist delicious cake or even tightly packed presents? Or is it the loving friends and family that
surround you? Along with all the
previous reasons, I believe we celebrate birthdays also because “Every year on
your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”
As in during
New Year’s Day or even Easter and Christmas, our birthday is when most people
decide a goal they want to fulfill.
Usually that goal may be to have good grades, lose weight, and improve
oneself. I mean really, how many times
have we chosen one of these resolutions or one similar to these at one point in
our lives? We gain a newfound motivation
and push to try to better ourselves, and this motivation can carry us far in
life if we keep it up.
We realize exactly how many people care about us, how many
people have believed in us and how many people have and will support us
throughout our lives no matter what.
This may be proven by physical presents and gifts or simply by a short call
and warm smiles. Our birthday is when we
feel loved and reminisce about our lives and how we have changed and what we
have learned. We remember our birth home,
our hometown, our family both in front of us and a great distance away who both
love us exactly the same and our friends who have been there in thick and thin.
Our birthday is a day all about us. There are seldom days where we can have a day
to do what we want and decide what we want or would like to do-of course in a
reasonable amount. We wouldn’t want to
be delusional and demand what we know is not possible, but we can have ice
cream for lunch, sleep in, watch what we want to on TV and everyone is
especially nicer to us. We can demand a
day to ourselves where we can turn off all electronic devices and simple relax
alone, or we can have a gigantic superfluous party.
So much is intertwined
in our birthday that we do not realize. We
discover all that we have in our lives and how blessed and lucky we are, and we
can create a new self that we can to be for the rest of our lives.
The comparison between a birthday and new years is very truthful and usually overlooked, though there are more than a few grammatical mistakes. overall good post
ReplyDeleteThis quote is quite intriguing. I love thinking of my birthday as MY day and wanting people to wish me a happy birthday. Whether it's one person or one hundred people writing you on Facebook, texting you, calling you, or bringing you a present, it makes us feel loved and wanted. When you wrote about how a birthday is like New Years or Christmas was clever because it is so obvious that one does not think about it. I didn't really make the connection until you mentioned it and now I see. I liked what you said about birthdays and that you are exposed to the many people that you have in your life.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your point and never looked at it that way. Making goals on your birthday is something we all do but never take it as seriously as new years. Even tough the truth is that we end up completing those goals way more than the goals of new years or Easter. I like the thought you put into this it is very interesting.
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