My Birthday!!!

Yay! It is my birthday today. Have turned 19 now. (Whoa! That’s a big number, isn’t it?) Just a year of teenage left for me now.
However, like always, I was more lost in the past than in the present. Was recalling the days of childhood when birthdays were such a big deal. There was always the craze for going to school: not in regular uniforms but in “birthday dresses”, distributing toffees to your classmates after the birthday song had been sung and then proceeding to distributing toffees to the teachers of the whole school by going to each and every class and also the staff-rooms, with your best friend accompanying you. The best part was you got to bunk the first period completely in this “toffee-distribution ritual”, plus you got to choose between all your friends who gets to come along with you, amidst all their pleading requests to be the “one”!
I still remember super-rich kids used to sometimes give away “dairy-milks” and if we were lucky enough they showered us with goodies like pencil, rubber, scale, sharpener, crayons and sometimes even a compass box! Wow! Imagine: giving such things to the whole class would have cost them a heavy amount. Surely, I will never spoil my kids to this extent. Hmm… Though I would definitely pamper them, but I would not tolerate this kind of distribution in his/her friend circle of goodies that they can easily afford. It is more like a show-off. And definitely I know of better ways of making my kids popular! *wink* *wink*
What I am talking now??? This was not I had begun with. So yeah, birthdays! The birthday gusto doesn’t end there. The over-crowded birthday parties at home, the new dress, birthday cake, blowing the candles, the festoons decorations, the yummy food and of course the GIFTS were always thrilling. As a kid, everyone is fond of gifts, however pointless they might be. The excitement of guessing what might be inside the shiny gift wrapper was so wonderful. I remember secretly forcing other kids to bring gifts for coming to the party. Hehehe! Demands, I say. Even then, the demands used to so innocent and straight from the heart. It is not that kids pretend that they don’t want anything when they do want it. (C’mon, don’t you dare disagree- who doesn’t like gifts and surprises. A well thought of and useful gift shows how much one means to the others; though it is not the only way of expressing it) I feel so funny to think I used to ask for Barbie dolls from my mom for each of my birthdays for such a long time.
Yeah! So much of fun for the whole 24hours when you feel that world spins for you and would stop doing so if you command. And it is not just one self’s birthday that a person enjoys. Going to birthday parties was equally fun.
Hmm… birthdays are so much of fun. Your one special day out of the three hundreds. I have had 19 such special days till now and I love each one of them (even if I don’t remember some). Yes! And to think of my first birthday video! Oh! It was lovely. I want to see it again now. When I watched it a decade ago I cried seeing the little me cry in the video when my ears were being pierced. Now I will have two reasons for watching the video: one is to see what my first birthday was like and second is to relive the memory of the day I cried seeing it some years later and screaming “how could you have done this to me? What was the need of piercing my ears? I don’t need earrings to look pretty. I am as beautiful with them as without them! (Who says my conceit evolved just out of nowhere. It was always there!)
So those who still haven’t wished me, WISH ME!!!! How can you be so shameless to get time to read my blog but not wish me.