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When we were young, birthdays were the most awaited day in our calendar. It meant gifts, new clothes and a day away from books and studies. But more importantly, it meant a little more freedom which gave us access to many new things which made us curious as a kid.
But as we grow up and birthdays pass by, those boundaries which our parents used to put us in as kids, seem like garlands now, and living in those confinement the best part of our lives.
Growing up means there are no shackles to break, no walls to jump, no mysteries to unfold because you are independent with no horizon to limit your sights.
And so birthdays becomes boring. Wishes a whatsaap or Facebook status. Just another day. A fleeting moment which passes more quickly than we ever imagined.
Probably, because during this journey called life at some point we overturn the hour glass and put the watch on an anticlockwise mode. A diminishing timeline. A receding calculation. Because Birthdays becomes another reminder of slipping time.
So why do we lose that excitement, those butterflies which used to keep fluttering inside our heads even a day before the actual date? Where have all those faint smiles gone that always floated in our eyes and hanged in our lips on the day?
Possibly, we lose all expectations as we grow up. Or may be growing up means exposing to the various pains of life. So it feels like the burden of earth is thrust on our shoulders and just one day won't change anything.
So how to find that twinkle in our eyes on birthday? How to rediscover the inexplicable happiness?
Probably for that we have to reconnect with the child that we have left behind in this race of life. If we can trace our way back to him or her possibly only then every birthday will find its true meaning. Every year a gem which we will treasure. Every time it will become a new opportunity to cut a new corner and celebrate it in the next birthdays to come.
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