I have different view on the birthday celebrations. In the first place, why are we celebrating birthdays? Is it a mark of any achievement? The answer is ‘Certainly not’ in most of the cases. Why do we cut cakes? What is the message behind? Why not something else? I have asked this to many people, but did not get proper justification. Even Atheists celebrate birthdays by inviting friends and cutting cakes. What happened to their sixth sense? Why have they not questioned this? Why only using sixth sense to question all religious belief?
In India, our ancestors used celebrate birthdays in a meaning full way. Normally they do some special pujas and offer prayers like doing Homa and other stuff. The special Homa is performed to thank God for gifting this life and to take resolution to be good to all in the world. Also there used to be some sort of charity done on the day of birth to the needy. Slowly this concept is diluted and after the British invasion and westernization of our culture, we forgot our own values and adopted the cake cutting formula.
Now a days, the birthday parties are very costly affair, one has to shell out more money and throw a lavish party to show off your status and life style. Where are we heading….? Due to societal compulsions, many are forced to do all these, though they are not inclined to this way of celebrations. To me the Birthdays are like any other day….just it’s a reminder call that we are getting older and few days are left in store for achieving our life goals.
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