Dt :29 Oct 2012.
So it was yet another birthday this year.Just another day of course but with the advantage that you can take a leave at office and stay home and reflect at the year gone by .
The other fascinating thing about birthdays is friends and their wishes .Now when we used to be in college there was a race to be the first to wish your friend.If you wished first does that mean that you are my closest friend.Well it may or may not be so In college however we like to play these games and its fun too.But the truth is that this whole business of wishing YOU first carries on into adulthood.
Now people who are commited would like to be wished first by their fiances/girlfriends/wives and understandably so.Going by that logic I feel that when you are single its your parents(in most cases) that you are closest to and they must be the first to wish you.Now most parents especially those born in the 50s dont think its that important to wish at midnight and rightly so .The day starts at sunrise doesnt it ??
Well I just dont like receiving calls at midnight especially when your family is asleep.So I decided to switch off my cell last year on my birthday so that I could take calls later in the day.But that of course did not go down too well with my friends and I got some real good bashing from them on my birthday.I apologised to them and somehow convinced them to forget about this .
This year I decided to be a good friend and was awake till after midnight to receive calls.But surprisingly there were no calls .For most of them I might have spoiled the 'Who Called First Game' last year itself and some others might have decided to not waste their energies trying to reach me..What that also means is that most of them have accepted the way I am and will be calling tomorrow.Thats why friends are so special coz they understand you and adjust/change to accommodate you....
For all those lovely friends I would like to say that even I changed a bit to accommodate you this year :-)
Cheers and catch you on another birthday ....
So it was yet another birthday this year.Just another day of course but with the advantage that you can take a leave at office and stay home and reflect at the year gone by .
The other fascinating thing about birthdays is friends and their wishes .Now when we used to be in college there was a race to be the first to wish your friend.If you wished first does that mean that you are my closest friend.Well it may or may not be so In college however we like to play these games and its fun too.But the truth is that this whole business of wishing YOU first carries on into adulthood.
Now people who are commited would like to be wished first by their fiances/girlfriends/wives and understandably so.Going by that logic I feel that when you are single its your parents(in most cases) that you are closest to and they must be the first to wish you.Now most parents especially those born in the 50s dont think its that important to wish at midnight and rightly so .The day starts at sunrise doesnt it ??
Well I just dont like receiving calls at midnight especially when your family is asleep.So I decided to switch off my cell last year on my birthday so that I could take calls later in the day.But that of course did not go down too well with my friends and I got some real good bashing from them on my birthday.I apologised to them and somehow convinced them to forget about this .
This year I decided to be a good friend and was awake till after midnight to receive calls.But surprisingly there were no calls .For most of them I might have spoiled the 'Who Called First Game' last year itself and some others might have decided to not waste their energies trying to reach me..What that also means is that most of them have accepted the way I am and will be calling tomorrow.Thats why friends are so special coz they understand you and adjust/change to accommodate you....
For all those lovely friends I would like to say that even I changed a bit to accommodate you this year :-)
Cheers and catch you on another birthday ....
