Birthday a day which comes once in a year where a person celebrates his or her birth anniversary often in the form of gifts, giving Party to friends or family, cutting cakes and in many other ways.Lots of wishes from Family, friends and closed ones comes on Birthday either by calling or messaging or sending birthday cards.
Birthday's are celebrated throughout the world in thousand's of ways. Cake cutting ,giving party are western Birthday celebration cultures which we Indians inherited and are enjoying. Birthday brings lots of happiness,joy , a get together along with Family and friends, home made sweets, visiting temples , praying to god to make the year wonderful and of full fun, and also it remembers us that we are growing !! ( One more year added to our age)
We do celebrate the Birthday's of great Personalities such as Gautam Buddha, Sri Krishna , Bhagath Singh, Mahatma Gandhi, Chandrashekar Azad , Nehru every year either in the form of Festivals like Budda Poornima, Sri Krishna Janmashtami or in the form of Gandhi Jayanti , Childrens day , we may think they have nothing to do with our life , but still we do celebrate !! why do we celebrate their birthday's ? we celebrate there birthday because they did something good either by making us mentally strong(Buddha, Sri Krishna) or for bringing Independence to our country which made us to walk with our head up and making us self rely on ourselves.
Some do celebrate their Birthday's by wasting several thousands of rupees by giving Party, drinks to there closed ones , organizing a party at Hotel now a new culture which we learnt from so called corporate world to show the status nothing else. Does these kind of celebration's make any sense ? we may enjoy for a day , but what about next day ? what about next week ?? we may say i don't think about future, today is my day i want to enjoy, ok but is this the real enjoyment ??
World Bank reported that 11.8% of people in India are below International poverty line , who are not able to earn 75.00 Rs a day, the number of old age homes are increasing day by day , there are crores of orphan children's who don't have there family to look after them , thousands of blind schools and many Intelligent children's who don't have money to continue there study.
It make sense to celebrate Birthday's of great personalities so that atleast that day we remember them and learn their good things,celebrating Birthday's of babies also make sense, but celebrating Birthday of our own when we are grown up by wasting thousands of rupees doesn't make any sense in any way because there are crores of people who not even have food to eat atleast once a day,doesn't have bed to sleep, who don't have a money to continue there study, and ofcourse the orphan children's.
Lets help the one in need , lets enjoy there Happiness, and lets stop wasting money for celebrations which doesn't made sense. The joy we get from this lasts forever.
I believe , Being a part of someones Happiness is the greatest Joy.
