One More Year Gone!

One More Year Gone!

By: Masarrat A Shah

A birthday is the anniversary of the birth of a person, or figuratively of an institution as per Wikipedia. However, I want to talk about the birthday of a person, an individual where it’s a day of celebration, parties, cakes and fun.

We all celebrate our birthday with so much of joy and fun, people wait for this day and being excited about the day, plan and decide about it. So, a day comes and the phone is full of birthday wishes, friends who have not been in touch with you for full year, a message for them makes you feel good that see they still care for you and remember you. The most exciting part is at 12AM, you wait to see who the first person to wish you 😊. Excitement and happiness doubles when your special one or your love calls you exact at the entry of your new day. Most of the people see that either their family are ready with the cake dot at 12’AM or even their friends are at the doorstep with the cake and making the Birthday special and memorable one. This is the one day when you are special not only in your family, friends but at work within your colleagues and so on. And yes, why not you should be special as it’s your day and you came to this world and are enjoying every day of it.

However, there are “n” number of people who do not Celebrate this day as you do. Few like to keep it as usual day and don’t care about it, some people feel nostalgic and want to just be with themselves and have their own space and avoid getting disturbed or they just go away from the hustle and bustle and want to feel the Solitude and immerse in it, to retrospect what they have done all these past years or that year which just passed.

Well, I am also one of them who likes to Retrospect about my life, the year which just passed away and I lost one more year of my precious life, what did I do or achieved in it. People pray and turn to Almighty for the best wishes and blessings. I also do, turn to Almighty and ask for forgiveness and mercy, for what may have gone wrong by me, or I may have hurt someone, or made someone unhappy. There are so many things on this day people like me do, they want to make coming years good and being blessed to do better. Few of my friends, on this special spend time with Orphans and in Old Age Homes, because they want to give back. Spending time with Orphans give them pleasure as they share their special day with them and make best of it.

There are children and people in this world who don’t know what birthday means, and if they do, there is no one around them to celebrate it. We should think of them, celebrate with them, eat and exchange gifts with them and pray along with them, you never know where their prayers will take you, to the places where you never had thought off, just because of the blessings.

I am not saying that do not celebrate your birthday, what I am saying is celebrate it with some meaning. Look back at your Year gone by and do some thinking and see what you have achieved and lost. Show gratitude to Almighty, for keeping you healthy and giving you what you asked for and expected. This is the day of self-realization and being grateful and thanking that Super-Power for giving you life and making it beautiful.

Yes, birthday is an anniversary to celebrate and have fun but at the same time we need to be mindful and grateful.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs