Dear Sukriti...

I know your special day is reaching its end ... and I wonder how good/bad/okay it would have been, knowing the fact that you are alone in that city which is unknown to you till now. Where the neighbour next to you is not even aware if someone exist next to his flat/house.. (Not that You expect but remember the small town stay days where everyone knew everyone and was involved in happy and sad moments of each other and how others around us where more interested in our life, career, marriage etc than our own parents).

I remember your last B'day... how gave you a surprise when we knocked your door @ exact 12 Midnight with a BIG Cake, Ribons, Ballons .. yaad hai ? .. it was fun to see your surprised face and the tear that just kept peeping from the corner of your eyes (Khushi ke Aasoon).

I wish I can turn the cycle back to 365 days when it was easy to reach out and celebrate each other. Today what i could do max was to wish you over the phone and ask you to treat yourself (sigh)...I felt how helpless we have become over a period of time ... our priorities has shifted from "what we want to do .. to .. what we need to do"...

I recollect something which I wrote on my Birthday eve when i sat back between gifts and leftover cake... Just wanna share the same with you and I am sure you will comprehend somewhere with it.

As the birthday ends ... and i sit next to the blown candles ..
flying wrapping papers .. priceless gifts ... speaking cards .... acknowledging letters ... and half eaten cake piece ...

I realise the value my presence hold in LIFE of so many people,...
who were busy celebrating me ... wishing me luck love and long life ...

I wonder if i have really made any difference in the LIFE of many,
who crossed my lane sometime or the other ....
Have i really touched the way they acknowledge "I Did" ???
I keep questioning myself ...
Has it been worth being born and celebrating the Birth every year ??
Am i actually convinced with my own existence
and purpose to be in the world ...

Amidst of music, dance, booze, hugs kisses and moves....
I have started celebrating myself ... and will do
till I am convinced that I actually made some difference to someone's life....

People are so happy celebrating my birth every years ..
till now i gave them facts to celebrate ..
now on will give them a beautiful reason too...

Thats My B'days resolution!!!

I wish you can come up with yours Su ...

Happy B'Day Sukriti

Yours ManZ