Birthdays...Do we celebrate ???

Day before yesterday in my ODC, we celebrated our colleagues b'day. Good Day for him, I thought! With everyone admiring and wishing him! We took out some contribution and bought a cake for him...Yummy! Merriment was in the air...we took it to the terrace near the pantry...Everyone sang the B'day song..he cut the cake and things were fine till then! Then the mischief started...with the icing cream and the soft pieces of cakes puffing off in the airs! They even decorated the B'boys face with all the icing, mocked him, taking his snaps altogether in a mess..additionally the poor guy had to undergo through all the b'bumps!! Some pieces (leftovers of the mischief!) were taken away by us! The rest were trashed!!!by the sweepers.. And the celebration was over!


Things didn't shock me really that day, for I had seen this a couple of times...but then this somehow disturbs me..my mindstarts wavering..I won't be able to concentrate till I put this into words...Why this?..What kind of celebration are we up to? Has anyone questioned? One may answer back saying its my life , my money..my wish the way I do things! Yes, all is true!! But then, that doesn't answer the question, does it? Did anyone think about the sweepers who cleaned it..the ladies who trashed it to the dustbin..what they must have felt! None of us shared a piece with them, forget alone I was not able to see the cake pieces lying all the way on the floors! Probably they might not be able to taste an ounce of it, in all their lives, and here we were crumbling and dancing over them.


Ought we need to behave this way? Or is there any way out! I think b'days are meant for looking back again, revising what all we did the year through, analyzing our thoughts and deeds, learning from our mistakes and finding a way out to be a better human being each day! In that case each day becomes a birthday...for me! in the quest to improvise myself each day I am a refreshen, a better person! I thank God for giving me a human birth, with which I can enrichen my soul..I thank my mother; hadn't she been there, I wouldn't have seen this beautiful world!


One way to thank anyone is to owe to them. We owe to every single creature on this earth; because it is instrumental in making you lead a life you are living each moment. We owe to the society. Give it something that it doesn't have..it doesn't require much, but still it makes a ot of diffrence! I feel instead of feeding ones who are already full, its always worth to feed the hungry...the desperate; to donate organs or blood who are yearning to experience life...



Celebrate b'day like a tree--the older it grows, the wiser it turns...the more it holds fruit, more it bends with gratitude!!!

"PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind."
-Alexander Pope