Birthday Boy....

Its my birthday , and as i sit and write this after partying to bring the birthday in with a few close friends, just a few random thoughts.

Well as i sit back i sort of evaluate my life , sort of look back on whats happend , what i have done, what i haven't i can't help but thank God for giving me some great friends (they sure threw some great parties over the years) and family. I realise that i not quite where i would like to ideally be , but with almost half my life behind me all i can say is that i am in a "happy place" . I remember a list that someone sent to me some time back on the things to do before i am 30 and i was happy to note that i coule tick most of the items on the list, guess that leaves me with some fun stuff to do the next year ;) . My parents and a lot of my family probably don't quite see my life quite the positive light that i do , but all i can say is that i am happy with most of whats happening right bow so leave me be! With it also being easter week , also got me into a whats the meaning of life , and why am i here, and how have i lived my life modes. I have always had a pretty much had a simplistic definition , of living a a good honourable life. My defintion is , if there is one person on this earth , whose life is a lot better because of you , your life is worth it.
So when a friend of mine mentioned this , and i quote," i can't think of a single person who hates you, most people like you or love you". Well its one of the nicest things that anyone has said to me , and i totally do not agree with it. But it also got me thinking if it was a totally positive thing or is rubbing a few people the wrong way make you more involved and passionate, and would those people you rub the right way be a lot more blessed.... Just a thought ...

Overall i am not too much of a birthday person , in that i love the gifts and the wishes, but i don't quite enjoy the spotlight. It also got me thinking about how i celebrated some of my birthdays. I guess one of the constants in my earlty birthdays was my moms cakes, she used to (and still does) make some of the most amazing cakes , and she used to shape the cake like a cartoon , or some other fun image . I also remember one particular birthday with my grandmom and an aunt. There is a gap in between for some of my birthdays , because my parents were not aound or school. I remember my first birthday in Bombay , my mom made a cake in the shape of a cricket field. I also remember the fisrt time i baked a cake for my mom on her birthday, again in Bombay. The last few years have been pretty similar with friends coming over for a party at home , i vividly remember one birthday when there were a couple of women friends (who were in town after a long time) in my room and i said hi to the usual suspects (my defacto room mates) and i went to my room to change and here i was cooly stripping without realising there were women present (fortunately i didn't get too far) . All i all a good start to the day, We actually met up at my place after a long time!

One final thought as i wind down this post, for a long time my birthay was all mine, i didn't know anyone else who shared my birthday. But of late have been bumping into a lot of them, ( i guess its inevitable with 6 billion people and only 365 days to go around) . The one fun thing in all this is that there is this one colleague and a close friend who i share the day with . Though ideally its not a day one would like to share with any one (i know she will not feel the way i do), but to me its a privilege and an honour and i am most happy to share this day with her.

Happy birthady Aunty... Cheers

ps.... hope i am awake at work tomorrow.