What comes into your mind when someone’s birthday is around the corner?Singing the ‘Happy Birthday’ song? Cutting the enormous chocolate cake? Opening presents and making birthday wishes? Or perhaps having a grand birthday gala?
That should be quite elementary, shouldn’t it?
But think deeper and you will realize that the true significance of a birthday is about the person himself or herself. Birthday represents the very date that marks the arrival of someone into this world, and that particular someone actually comes into this world for a reason. That is, to make a difference to our lives and the lives of others.
Spend some time reflecting on how your life was like back then when he or she has yet to become a part of your life, and then reflect on how life it is for you now that he or she is present right in front of your very eyes. You will see that a change has come into your life, and it is all thanks to the presence of that special someone.
A birthday is a day for us to pay tribute to and honour the people dearly to us, even for the little things that he or she has done to make our lives even more worth living for. It could be simple acts like cracking jokes to cheer us up, or being a listening ear to us when we go through stormy weathers, but imagine how our lives would have been when these people never existed in this world to keep us laughing or lend their shoulders to cry on?
So let us look at birthdays in a different perspective, and whenever someone important to you celebrates his or her big day, do not just shower with presents or yummy goodies. Express your greatest appreciation for his or her existence in your life.
And do not only show it on birthdays! Show it on every other day as long as you have the chance to do so.
Now it’s time for us to give Marzie the answers to her birthday tag trivia question! Just have a look at our answers and you will know what the question is all about.
Our ‘Top 10’ dream gifts and wishes for our birthdays (not in order of preferences):
1.Cadbury Fudge Brownie chocolate bar
2.A lifetime supply of VITAGEN
3.A home theatre
4.Having a live band to perform for us
5.Jazz, R & B and Rock music compilation CDs
6.A home-made birthday cake. It gives a more personal touch!
7.Jerseys with our names engraved on them
8.A football chocolate cake! (We saw one before. So gigantic and purely sinful!)
9.A trip to....anywhere in the world where we can let our hair down!
10.Most importantly, to achieve and realize our individual ambitions and make our friends and families proud, and to continue contributing even more to the global community.
You have already heard from us, and now we want the following bloggers to spill the beans on what they wish to have on their birthdays!
Apple
Sani
Lee Chien
-Nafa Danfad
