Happy Birthday!
Ok! I don’t remember my friends’ birthday. Big deal! Last year it was my mom’s birthday and she called me the evening to remind me that it was her birthday. Eventually I cracked up a funny one by saying that since I wasn’t there when she was born she can’t really expect me to believe that she was born on that particular date. Next, on my parent’s anniversary I messed up again, my sister had to call me up and remind me later that day. Next, one of my cousin SMSed a day prior to her birthday that it was her birthday the next day, but eventually it slipped off my mind and I couldn’t wish her. Next, this happened just a couple of weeks back, another cousin of mine, who is pretty close to me and whose birthday date I took from her just a week before her birthday, had to SMS me and ask me to wish her. So what I really mean is yeah man I forget things, I am not really good at remembering peoples birthday or anniversary, and most of the time people have to sms me, mail me, call me or ping me to make me remember to wish them.
Nevertheless I fail to realize what the big deal about remembering birthdays is, what is big deal of wishing people at 12 o’clock night. From my perspective, simple, your brain has limited grey cell, and you use it to think, store and reflect upon things. Now, why to store this data that is perennial in your head? Eventually, there are so many social networking portals that can help you track all this. But, again I am not on any networking site so I can’t really help it. On my last birthday, I switched off my phone around midnight (now this has become customary), and went along with my friends for a long drive and dinner to lonavla. Earlier I used to cherish people calling me at midnight to wish me, but I guess I have grown up. J
I am posting this just at 12 o’clock night, wishing a very happy birthday, hoping that it would compensate for my ill memory. Happy Birthday! Have a great day, and yeah cool and take care! J. I will grab a piece of cake or twoJ.
