"Tomorrow is my Birthday and I'm keenly awaiting for those midnight
calls from my friends, relatives and colleagues to wish me a ‘Happy
Birthday’ infused in amusement! My social media accounts will be flooded
with Birthday greetings. I will be specifically noticing those
mute-antagonists who would not even mind posting a line of ‘Happy
Birthday’ on my Facebook wall! When I go to my office on tomorrow, I
anticipate every lousy faces I come across to throw a sensational smirk at
me with an overwhelming piece of greetings. I will be interested to
count the number of cakes being bought to surprise me and of course it
matters if it’s of big size and scrumptious flavor. It entertains me
when the whole crowd around me clap as if I’m on a verge of winning a
100 meter sprint, when I blow the frightened flames dancing on top of
the weeping candle-towers planted around the cake. It displays my
popularity and congeniality amongst my peers when they take an
extra-liberty to glue the cake-cream on my face, spray the foam and to
kick aback religiously with hysterical laughter. I’m prepared to spend
one month’s of my gross salary to treat the impatience of my lovable
around a multi-cuisine restaurant table. As I can early step out of the
office for the day, the day gets concentrated upon meeting my
mischievous band of kith and kin. More cakes, wines and food to enthuse
and fuel my final hours of the birth-night!"
I being a Human resource professional, it demands to wish each employee
on their birth dates and it’s not more than a gentle line of formal
greeting. But, what’s bothering me is the reason behind this hyper
celebration. Nowadays, people are observant and servants of trends seen
around. They're least interested to be cognitive about the 'sense or
nonsense' it make. Birthday celebrations are one of such addictions we
are enforced to pursue over last century. It’s admirable if someone
remembers the greatness behind their entry into the earth and thank the
parents and supreme nature. But, when it’s celebrated with annoying
eagerness by spending thousands, lacs and even crores it looks
embarrassing, foolish and irrational.
As an individual, I neither
greet anyone or wish to get greeted on account of Birthdays. But, it’s a
fact that I love when my mother reminds me a day prior to visit any
nearby temples and to express gratitude to the almighty on my
astrological birthday! However, it’s none of my business to comment on
other’s way of celebrating their Birthdays but I can only be exasperated
to the core witnessing the undesirable piece of delight seen in some
people on their so-called special days!
NB:- Tomorrow is not my Birthday!
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