Family Birthdays

When did you last hear someone say to you Happy Birthday? This phrase is uttered once and then forgotten only to be brought back to life the following year to remind you. Turning a year older each time, you feel a little offbeat, thinking you are getting there but you continue to refuse getting old or simply in denial.

So forgive me if I am writing and expressing your birthday greetings in an imaginative way. Celebrating birthdays is not merely a convention. Birthdays are occasions to celebrate one's growth, maturity, and development.
Birthdays remind us that the gift of life is the most precious and important one. I hope you do not mind me when I write about your birthday and at times it is personalized but I do care about you (celebrants) and that I just do not settle for an off-the-shelf greeting card.

A birthday is a joyous occasion. What could be a better birthday gift than the gift of happiness? Hello “cousins”, “families” and “family friends”…let us wish our monthly celebrants happiness and the fullness of life.

As you know each day, life offers a blank virtual page in the book of our existence. The past is already written and you can't change that; in it's pages you can find through your history, some pages have soft colors and others with darker shades, the beautiful times of happy occasions and others through trial times, but each birthday, we have an opportunity to write another happy moments to be able to choose our color to brighten our day for even in the adversity we can add soft pastel of serenity to turn it into a beautiful experience like the beautiful person each of us celebrants’ going to be.

My wishes and prayers for each of you strengthens your faith, will and optimism to transform your most awaited happy occasion, a birthday of your life into a treasure as beautiful remembrance towards a bright and wonderful future and many more happy returns of the day, attaining purity and the fullness of life.

Happy Birthday in the fullest of joy and peace.

Basho Fat Sumo 2011