Yesterday I turned 32!!!!! You will not believe it but---i felt so rejuvenated adding another year in my biological age! Some close friends teased me for being out of the calendar (my age) but I told them wittingly that at least Lotto tickets have my age!!!! (duh!-great humor?!!!). A birthday is a time to celebrate birth itself, the joy of life.Like my previous birthdays--I know I have to be thankful again for my "symbolic" rebirth! To recall our birth is to recall a new beginning. Birthdays for me are constant reminders of my new beginning. Birthday is still a momentous occasion (although, as I grow older--i plan to make each celebrations simplier and with so much prudence!). April 21 is the commemoration of my birth---a chance to remember the day that a major event occurred (of course--my birth!), to celebrate and give thanks and to reflect upon how well I am fulfilling my calling. As a person, I think it is but good to be thankful for what we have in life and what we have accomplished. So far, my 31 years of existence had been a wonderful journey of simple successess and failures. It is also an occasion to rethink how i'm living my life: what I have accomplished and what I can accomplish? How can I strengthen the thread that connects my outer life and my inner life? How much goodness and genuine good intention did I placed in all my previous undertakings? etc.. Birthdays are refreshers, chances for regeneration--not just materially but spiritually.
This year, I decided to celebrate my birthday quietly--I thanked my family and closest friends
for their gentle presence in my life (as they greet me of course!) and just went with my day as simple as possible. More than the little jokes of celebration--I think there is no better way to celebrate a birthday than to commit special acts of goodness. You see, its easy enough to say you are thankful but it is far better to show it by doing a kind deed, something that you did not do yesterday. So my day went generally typical--except of course with my little additional kindness and generosity as I injected even more happiness in my inter and intrapersonal connection with myself and with others. Such acts of kindness gives the greatest pleasure!
for their gentle presence in my life (as they greet me of course!) and just went with my day as simple as possible. More than the little jokes of celebration--I think there is no better way to celebrate a birthday than to commit special acts of goodness. You see, its easy enough to say you are thankful but it is far better to show it by doing a kind deed, something that you did not do yesterday. So my day went generally typical--except of course with my little additional kindness and generosity as I injected even more happiness in my inter and intrapersonal connection with myself and with others. Such acts of kindness gives the greatest pleasure! Another year--another chance for a lifetime.
