HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Happy Birthday is the mirror of Happy Anniversary with life. Birthday wishes always seem to flourish the delighted feelings of a reveler. Dowry of cake, chocolates, gifts are free with the bride (birthday wishes), rather they are more eye-catching and overtake the bride to seek merrymaker’s attention. These birthdays rotate with the shrinkage of a year, but it is equally smart not to follow the zigzag road to add a year of maturity. The colorful candles, which cost more than a cake, are the loyal missioners to point out the growing age. The new trend of compulsory celebrating these birthdays in a typical way involves flocking the sheep and lambs in one lane. It is found easier for a shepherd to follow the same beat and align them in a queue; no worries about exploring different avenues, as the different ways would push the shepherd towards the exploration of advanced directions, but 80% of shepherds are fine with the typical common route. Well, the charm of new experiences on the birthday would bring a natural glow to the face; there is no need to put on any makeup then. These experiences might take the help of gray hair, wrinkles on the face, and an imperfect figure if the path of yoga has not been paved and the cake has always watered your mouth on all birthdays. A toddler has to do nothing with his or her birthday celebration, but the father seems to be more excited to spend his matured FD, which would give him the priority to prove himself a financially strong hotdog in the streets of his office, and the mother is badly in need of an ‘off button’ to control her hysteria as she doesn’t want to let the opportunity go in vain of flaunting her saree after pregnancy. Well, year five is a good fit to get attracted to the dowry of the bride, which includes balloons, gifts, a costly cake, and a fascinating party. The parents are busy keeping their eyes on the guests’ attire, but the little ones’ sharp eyes are just on the hands that carry the gifts. Their hands are more active to receive the gifts, but they have equally deaf ears to listen to the wishes. They are smart enough to make their lips spontaneous to say ‘Thank you’ for the gifts without listening to the goody-goody wishes—happy birthday, little one, champ, etc. They are just hell with these wishes. These teenagers are intoxicated by the flavor of their teenage. They are busy with celebrating their birthdays with champagne, cakes, food, long drives, discos, and bars. They celebrate their teenage years in the form of a birthday celebration. But after 30, each body has a mind of its own. Are the body and mind really satisfied after repeating the history of thirty years? Same tedious birthday celebrations with parties, cakes, and gifts, and uploading monotonous pictures with funny pauses on WhatsApp and Instagram just to complete the formality of social media, or may be to assure the Facebook friends that the grand birth party has taken place. On top of that, a birthday party of this age may cost the bill of a doctor due to overeating a cake full of icing. Actual fun is a little far from a new experience on that day. The experience could be self-realization, donating your same birthday cake to needy ones, planting a tree, watching Sherlock Holmes, or reading Thomas Hardy, or to be with yourself—just yourself. These occurrences are not to feel the vacant places of social media but turn towards the real fun. It sounds to be a perfect celebration for this age, as this age is about to reach over the hill, so it would begin to pick up the speed of self-realization. Shivpurana illustrates the best example of birthday celebration with the head-cutting story of Lord Ganesha. It was Ganesha’s happiest birthday, not because he got the new head of an elephant, but because he got rid of his egoism and had an amazing experience of altruism. Bhagvad Geeta reveals the reasons for human beings’ existence. Five percent of self-realization is enough on each birthday to make it the happiest birthday.