To answer this question, I think I would consider it incomplete if I fail to explain how the day is celebrated. A few people like to celebrate it throwing parties to their friends. Another group aims at making this day auspicious by being an ideal citizen that day. A third category would be calmly helping the desolate and find their joy there in. There are many more ways to celebrate a birthday.
Why do we celebrate any day at all? Festivals, national days, international days supporting any cause are a few of these. In each of these cases, the destiny shall be to review a life, a great personality whose remarkably good behavior towards the society and a great tale of life needs to be reminded. It is true, despite a modest answer, that everyone feels that he is the most important part of the world. He is the center of everything that is woven around him. He looks at everything with his own view and thus being the epicenter, manages to become a remarkable character, call hero of the story. He is the prince of his Kingdom of dreams. So, we have a character whose story can be celebrated.
You may question me of one's achievement to be celebrating. As some guy would put it, 'the problem with history is that it cannot be noticed while its happening, and once done, it need not be noticed then.' So, what you see as a plain life today is a roller coaster ride reaching a destination, often high often low. Thus the story of life, or in one's view, the entire puppetry in the world is going on. One's sustenance and well being in this great work is worthy the joy we get celebrating.
The reason to celebrate is clear. Birthday is the celebration of being alive. But why should this day only be a birthday? Why not some day hither thither? Its you, the hero, whose success is being celebrated. There has to be a unique day. The day would have been that of your success, had your story witnessed an end. In case it didn't, the life didn't stop. You still lived. You still survived. This is being celebrated on a day most unique to you, your birthday.
How to celebrate? Its simple. Celebrate in that way which, if penned down and read after a century, would still please your ego, remind you of the joy, and make you smile for being alive then. Happy birthday!!!
Why do we celebrate any day at all? Festivals, national days, international days supporting any cause are a few of these. In each of these cases, the destiny shall be to review a life, a great personality whose remarkably good behavior towards the society and a great tale of life needs to be reminded. It is true, despite a modest answer, that everyone feels that he is the most important part of the world. He is the center of everything that is woven around him. He looks at everything with his own view and thus being the epicenter, manages to become a remarkable character, call hero of the story. He is the prince of his Kingdom of dreams. So, we have a character whose story can be celebrated.
You may question me of one's achievement to be celebrating. As some guy would put it, 'the problem with history is that it cannot be noticed while its happening, and once done, it need not be noticed then.' So, what you see as a plain life today is a roller coaster ride reaching a destination, often high often low. Thus the story of life, or in one's view, the entire puppetry in the world is going on. One's sustenance and well being in this great work is worthy the joy we get celebrating.
The reason to celebrate is clear. Birthday is the celebration of being alive. But why should this day only be a birthday? Why not some day hither thither? Its you, the hero, whose success is being celebrated. There has to be a unique day. The day would have been that of your success, had your story witnessed an end. In case it didn't, the life didn't stop. You still lived. You still survived. This is being celebrated on a day most unique to you, your birthday.
How to celebrate? Its simple. Celebrate in that way which, if penned down and read after a century, would still please your ego, remind you of the joy, and make you smile for being alive then. Happy birthday!!!