ReBorn

July 7th, 2009.

Last night had been a whilrwind of emotions. I reached home from office to find a card addressed to me at the table. Opened it to find wishes from my parents…… I was over-joyed… At 12 o clock, my friends woke up from their still fresh sleep, rubbing their eyes and came to wish me so cheerfully… I was still receiving calls from my family and some close friends, and was touched at this gesture. While they were still wishing me, the door bell rang, and there infront of the door were two of my other friends who lived just a block away….. with broad smiles on their faces and a cake in their hands, and then… our flat was buzzing with the song “Happy Birthday to you…….” sung by my so considerate, sweet and caring friends……

I woke up in the morning, yawned, streched my arms to the fullest… all with my eyes still trying to take in the bright sunlight coming through the window. A soothing, hummable tune starting playing in my mind and a smile appeared accross my lips…….. i realised… i had just turned 25……..

It was my birthday….. 25 years ago, on this very day some hours earlier in the night, a baby girl was born to my parents, their only girl child… next to their 2 year old… only son….. the family was complete…

I smiled at the thought, as a slight feeling of home-sickness filled me up….. I longed to lie curled up in my mother’s lap as she kissed my forehead and wished me happy birthday……. like she had always done for the past 23 years… and then, my father would so proudly call upon me and hug me, with a warm smile and wishes that I could read from his face….. happy birthday beta… he’d say…… and then I’d enter my grand-parents’ room, they’d be so happy to see me as if i’d returned from some long journey and they’d take me in their ever-welcoming arms, bless me many times over and wish me… my brother would call and in his usual tone and style, a little concerned, a little excited and happy for me, a little embarrased at feeling so, wish me lovingly… my dog, standing infront of me wagging its tail as if it knew what the commotion was all about… oh i beleive he knew…….. how wished I’d see them this morning….. right at that moment…

and then, my phone rang!!! “Hello…”, I said….. “Happy Birthday to you… Happy Birthday to you… Happy Birthday dear mini (my nickname)… Happy Birthday to you”… I was so happy to hear my mother’s sweet and soothing voice fill my ears as I was thinking of her……. telepathy again, I thought!!! That always happens with me and ma… and then, one by one I heard all the voices I was longing to hear, and the home-sickness turned to this enthusiasm… this confidence to take on the world… backed up with wishes from my family, I could look the world straight in the eye…….

When I was getting ready for office, my friend and flat-mate came and handed me a card with a smile….. it was from my mother… again…….. she’d planned this with my friend… thanks to her too….. What was written inside was something so beautiful, that it filled my eyes with tears…….. I wanted to hug my ma and hide inside her…..

I spent the entire day, receiving calls from my dearest friends, quite usual you’d say… well I agree….. but the enthusiasm remained… in fact increased…

My colleagues brought in a cake for me at the office… chocolate….. my favorite!! It was really heartning and great…

At night, I sat at the balcony, rethinking about the day that had passed. Yet another year of my life had gone by, at a pace and in a manner that made me think….. maybe it could have been better, or maybe not…..

This day will come again next year, with all my friends calling me again with such cheer in their voices…. some, who might even not have called up in months would remember me this day.. maybe….. and I’d feel delighted and grateful on hearing from them, through phone, mail, scraps, messages….. any means. Then again I’d be sitting in my balcony at night….. wondering how this year had gone by…

Whatever I may have gone through the year… i wish the smile on my face on this day never diminishes….. the enthusiasm, the energy that my family and friends give me so lovingly, never fades away…

I wish that I feel reborn on this day each year….. as long as I live..

There couldn’t have been a better day to create an alternative existence for myself…… my Webpage….. my Web-existence……. reborn… for sure!!!!!