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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Birthday... big deal!

What’s so special about birthdays? Aside from adding one more year to your age, what significance does it really brings?

When you have nothing to prove that all those years of your existence in this planet was something worthwhile, then a birthday means absolutely nothing.

Some people would have a house perhaps to show that they are really working hard… some people commands respect because others have seen that they are so deserving of this… some people developed an enterprise, one that will be their legacy to their children…

…and then, there are some who can leave only nothing but footprints… footprints that gets easily erased and washed away even by the smallest waves. And when that happens, there won’t be any proof of existence of those footprints nor the man who left them.

it matters not…

how many birthdays he had…
how many times he cried…
how loud his laughter was…
how badly bruised he was…

neither here nor there… a candle that couldn’t keep its light… an age that didn’t come with wisdom…

ahhh…. birthday! Others rejoice in it, thankful for the day to come… while others wouldn’t really give a damn.

Is it really significant?

It depends… on who you are… where you are… and how you are…

Birthday? Big deal!

2 comments:

Mel Avila Alarilla said...

Happy Birthday Roy. May you have many more blessed birthdays to come. Though you may not appreciate your birthday now, you will celebrate it with gusto in the coming years ahead. Life is like a wheel, it keeps on spinning. It is also like an ebb and flow of the tide. Just bide your time and things will turn out for the better. What matters most now is that you must be strong for your kids. You are the only one they can look up to. Gather your strength from the Lord so that you may not weaken and weaken the resolve too of your family. One day you will look back at this particular point in your life when you almost want to give up and you will have that blissful smile in your face because you were able to overcome your trials. All of us are facing trials of all kinds. It is how we react that matters. Thanks for the post. God bless you always.

Roy said...

thank you very much for those inspiring words Mel

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