Birthdays are special days for kids. No different in my case, when I was young, I use to have a countdown for my birthday from the day when new year starts. I would count days to skip uniform and stand different in the crowd and get chorus birthday wishes & surprise gifts and distribute chocolates. As I grew up, slowly start day for the countdown got delayed. At least after my 18th birthday celebration, I have stopped having this countdown.
In this few years, my idea about birthday has changed and I have stopped celebrating the day. I feel birthdays are special days for moms who brought us to the world. So I have started buying her new dress from last year for my birthday :) Also for me, this day has turned to be a 'make a resolution' day every year. Resolution for this year is ready..!
It was February 25, 2010. A gifted morning..! I have wrapped myself with the bed sheet, still in bed and not yet out of sleep.. I was doing silent prayers and placing secret requests to God. I asked him, "Give me the power to get what I want.. Let me take the live the life as my heart instructs.. Heal my soul..!". Suddenly there was touch which was like saying to me, "You have been healed". I could sense that I was happy and smiling. "Happy Birthday Thangam..!" Now the voice got louder and heard it so close to my ears. Opened my eyes quickly to catch a sight of how God looks.. I was able to see a happy face with full of smiles. It was my mom. :)
Before I could thank her for wishes, she pulled me out of the bed and told me to come out.. I was not even fully out of sleep.. But I got out of bed and came out of the room.. And saw my favorite black forest cake with candles numbered 25 lighted. With all the happiness, forgetting that I have not yet brushed, I went to the cake and blew up the light in the candles and cut the cake and gave my mom, brother and brother's friend. When my mom gave me piece of cake, I regretted for not having brushed, as I have to wait to have my fav cake now. :( I was complaining my brother for this, because my mom and brother has planned the celebration so early as he has to leave home soon to catch his daily train to college.
But in a minutes time he stopped me, by surprising with the things I have been asking him before few months. I got all in one day.. :) He gave me the Rubik's cube, pack of cards, TV video game, Video game cassette..! It was really a gifted morning.. I'm a person who love surprises. It was sweet surprise to start the year....!!
