do we really have to celebrate the day we were born ?

why are birthday's worth celebrating ? isn't it just like any other day , except that u find yourself a year older ? shouldn't we be finding it depressing ? i mean , i dont think any of us would want to grow old , weak , sad , wrinkles on ur face , cribbing and complaining about how you wasted your younger days not doing the things that you ought to have done and the things that you cant do anymore . yet people celebrate . what makes it so special anyway ?and the answer is........... friends and family !! i figured this on my 18th birthday ..

i never really felt the josh in celebrating birthdays before , as i'd mentioned , not untill my 18th birthday. It started off like an ordinary day. got up early by 8.00 .. :P ... did as per my routine , got ready and went off to see my grandmother, to hear her go on about how responsibly i should be acting now that am growing old , and how i should've learnt to cook by now and do all the household chores. and then i get a call from my friend askin me to come to ispahani. i guess i was expecting to see some familiar faces and a little suprise in store for me. so i went there knowing what to expect n all, but what i didn't know was that my friend eashwar had somehow managed to get my closest friends from college, who pretended to be busy on my birthday, to throw the suprise. we had a cake-cutting session, as per tradition on every birthday, and spent some time chatting, eashwar gave a stuffed toy( which was absolutely cute) and as for me , i was real glad that they all had come and was still wondering how eashwar got in contact with them . really sweet dont you think ? anyways , that's just the beginning.

moving on to my second suprise for the day !!! the next stop was satyam theatre where i had booked 14 tickets for ghajini to treat my school friends. we sold off the extra tickets and sat to watch the film. then, interval .we came out to get some pop corn. eashwar convinced me that the rush to get refreshments upstairs( lounge area) would be comparitively less and so he literally dragged me there .what i found there was totally unexpected . there was another cake with my name on it,including my nick name ( palm tree.... was that really necessary?) , balloons and other decorations. my friends got around to sing 'happy birthday' for me to stop starin at the cake bewildered and cut it already as they were all waitin to have a piece of it .. [:P] anyways , some lousy pictures were taken in which i look ridiculous and were put up on satyamcinemas.com/celebrations.asp. And for my favourite part, PRESENTS !!! [:D] i got all that i was supposed to get, including image damaging mockery in public :P ( hey.... what 're friends for ??)... i was again chased to my seat as the film was gonna resume.. just when i thought that it was all over, eashwar pops out a ring and gives it to me just when the song " gujarish" had started speaking out his affection towards me ..... (omg !!! that was the sweeeeeeeetest thing anyone's ever done for me!!!!!!!) i accepted it with a fully content heart and with my hands trembling . i din't know how to react . i am not all that sentimental in life, dont usually give out emotional dialogues as u see in soaps, and i avoid emotional out-bursts as far as i can , but this was way too much to hold inside. seriously !!!!i've only seen stuff like this in movies u know. kinda couldn see it to be happening for real !!! and after that point , i dont recall watching the movie at all, only me staring at the ring under the light from my cell phone !!! it was the most precious gift of all . his sincere effort to make me feel special that day and to make me remember this forever was clearly seen. [the least i could do in return for all that he's done is to mention about it in my blog !!]oh well .... it was simply great , the day was !!! i stopped to think if i really did deserve friends such as these... and i told myself that i would repay each and everyone of them in any way that i could for the love that they've showed me :) love you alll..............

i must say , i got a little carried away with my friends , with so much happening and all , that i had completely forgotten about my family back home. so i rushed home to find my dad and my mom waiting with a little strawberry cake exclusively for the 3 of us. i felt like a bum to have forgotten them. but i guess i felt a little better on seein a knowing, understanding look on my dad's face. so yea... we had a small celebration for ourselves and sat down to have dinner ..

at the end of that incredible day i learned that birthdays weren't meant to be depressed about going old. it was about realising what you have achieved and who or what you have earned after so many years of living. when you have people around you to make you feel special , then i dont think you will ever feel low about anything in life. infact, they always give u a reason to celebrate. !!! this is to especially thank all those who've made an impact and a difference in my life ....