Of Birthdays

Its my birthday this week and I am usually very excited about my birthday, as a kid we waited for our birthday’s and the birthday parties and gifts that we would get. Often we would not wear the school uniforms on working days in school as well. Even today most of us celebrate our birthdays with lots of excitement and do feel special on the day but it seems that most of us don’t feel as special about our birthday as we earlier did. Some may argue that this is probably because we are getting older but I strongly believe that there are other factors involved here.

In the last 10-15 years we have seen people finding out newer reasons to celebrate life and to party. Today in India we have Halloween weekends, Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving day and surprisingly a lot of people also party on the American independence day. Along with these even Indian festivals are highly glorified now and are synonymous with excessive partying like dandiya and diwali. Even Holi festivities are accompanied by a week long partying.

The fact is that in the last decade Indians have found out so many reasons to celebrate that the excitement around one’s personal festivities like anniversaries and birthdays have reduced a lot. Even these occasions have become synonymous with partying. So whenever you say birthday, your friends might get late in wishing you but not in asking for a party.