What Makes Birthday Sweeter?

I am turning out 23 on this beautiful day (August 25, 2011). This day is not an ordinary day of mine I come across in my life. Something makes this day special and sweeter. I just thought

What makes this day sweeter?

Does the delicious chocolate cake I happen to eat today made it sweeter?

Does the sweetest foreign chocolate wrapped in gold and arranged in beautiful heart shaped box made it sweeter?

Does the surprise gifts I get made it sweeter?

Neither of them made mine sweeter. The thing that made this day sweeter is

• I have beloved people who don’t fail to get me a delicious chocolate cake even after a long work day.
• I have very best friends who always love to call me even at 12A.M midnight without sleep to wish me a happy birthday.
• I have lovable parents who still think I am a very small kid for them especially on this day.
• I have caring relationships & friends who make my face book wall flooded with the birthday wishes.
• I have beloved friends who never fail to wish me even if they are in different time zone. The difference in time zone doesn’t bring much difference in our friendship and the love and care they have in me.
• A surprise call for a birthday wish from a special person, with whom I almost left contact many months back.

These are the things that made my birthday special and sweeter.

I can still remember the school days, many years back on this same day when I walk inside the class wearing new outfits with a bunch of sweets, everyone in the class rise and clap to sing a happy birthday song to wish me. Every one of my class mates shows a special care to me on this day just for the sweets I gave them.

Then in my college days, some years back on this same day, I still remember the midnight birthday celebrations we have in hostel rooms. We definitely buy cake not to eat but to play with it.  Everyone will have almost everything to throw on me that include eggs, tomato and almost anything they get in hand. The happiest moments will last more than an hour or two. Then everyone forces me to give them a treat even though they know I don’t have enough money for all their needs. Believe me the money I spend them for the treat will not worth more than 100 bugs, but the happiness and satisfaction we get worth a million.

And now as a corporate employee, Birthday celebrations become bit different. It had become professional. Years pass by like the pages of book right in front of my eyes. I can notice difference in the way birthday is being celebrated. But I can’t find much difference in the love and care of the beloved people around me.

Although this day reminds me that I lost almost an entire year in my life span, this day still remain sweeter and very special to me. Everything that was bugging me in the past days melted like the mist in sun.

I like to say

Birthdays will always be sweeter. Birthdays will always be special. Birthdays will always bring happiness.

Either it may be the First, 23rd, 46th or 92nd ….

Because there are lots of lovable people around me who really care.

Jagan