Today, I’m 26. That just passes a quarter of the century. I know. Don’t say it. I’m old. Oh yeah, really. Considering where I’m right now, I’m old.
This year my birthday is really special. Usually, my birthday just another 11th day in the 4th month. Nothing special, really. Today, 5 text messages were sent to my cell phone before 6 o’clock plus two calls disturbing my morning sleep before I finally picked up the third. I knew the call was not going to bring a “happy birthday” greeting, she didn’t even know when my birthday was and still doesn’t. She was breaking the news that my uncle had just passed away that dawn. So, the first call to wake me up on my birthday was actually about a death. What a great way to start a birthday.
Two of the messages were about the same sad news, three of them were from my dear friends wishing me a happy birthday. The problem was, one of them said, or joked – I never found out which one was true – that he had a party planned for me this evening. I panically called him to cancel off the plan, no answer. Finally after few text messages, the problem was cleared.
Good news was, a big boss at the office was having his birthday yesterday and he was in the right mood to be really kind today. So, we all had a great meal all through the day. Not bad….:) Just when I was going broke.
By noon, my cousin reminded me that I had forgotten to congratulate my other cousin who shares the same birthday with me and I always consider as my one-year-older-twin. After the lunch, I was trying to get a grip on what would my family do next as a response to the death. They must come over, but when and how? Later on the day, I contacted my friend who was in trouble yesterday, asking her condition. Her reply was asking me to lend her some money. Okay. That’s great. I was starting to regret my decision of asking her to be honest.
When the evening came, I still needed to continue my plan of having a small celebration with my boarding house mates. It was actually much better than what I thought it would be. So, thank you God for that one.
So here I am. I planned to write about my reflection on my life today. But all those things made me to do this instead. Yet, tomorrow is definitely not a brighter day than today. At least today I had a fun chats on my Facebook wall. But you know what, I think somehow everything happened today share the right meaning with a birthday. A beginning.
Birthday Statistic:
Text messages received: 26
Text messages sent out: 29
Facebook notifications: over 60
Birthday gifts: 0
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