So It was my birthday last week and surprisingly I was not much excited about it! It was my second consecutive birthday away from my parents and also my dear friends. The thought of me getting older was more predominant than being excited about the gift(s) I might get. My parents wished me as per their timing and it kind of made me little emotional. Reminiscing the days when I was small and on my birthday I used to get super excited coz that day I would get to wear 'civil' dress in school which would make me look special as everyone would know during morning assembly that its my birthday and they would promptly wish me :) Then the whole class would sing birthday song and they would get nice chocolates and then I would choose one friend to come along to distribute chocs to teachers in the school. That day everyone would be extraa nice to me as they would get extraa chocolates :D At home momy would prepare something sweet and I would get gifts from relatives and friends. I never cut cake during my school days and it was no big deal for me too....
Then in college we had a tradition to 'treat' friends with some chocolates and pastries. I used to get gifts and sense of being special....felt good.
When I started working the treats got little bigger and my friends used to get cake ( always by surprise ) I used to get gifts and used to be very excited answering phone calls from friends and all :))
For the past two years I didnt cut cake...birthday was just like any other day....But yeah I was no longer excited about the gifts...my dear ones wishing me on phone and then talking for long time on long distance calls made me feel gud..another thing was that people wished me on FB and orkut even though I had not made my birth date visible!
I guess I am a lil more wiser as now gifts have taken a backseat just the remembrance is more than anything :)
