It's My Birthday
Greetings, friends of the Silver Blogger community. Today I want to tell you about my birthday celebration, seven days ago. I say "my" because celebrating is also a personal act, where I choose to give thanks, hug myself, pamper myself, and wish myself the best for the new journey.
At midnight, I meditated on my life and all the good things I'd experienced last year. I wrapped my arms around myself. What a new feeling! I don't think it had ever occurred to me to hug myself, but I did, and I wished myself many wonderful things.
A few minutes later, I received the intonation of Happy Birthday with pleasant congratulatory messages from a very dear friend. Here, we usually sing a whole song with very beautiful messages: ; this has become a tradition on every birthday, before blowing out the candles on the cake. I heard it later from three of my grandchildren and then at a luncheon my cousins hosted for me.
Throughout the day, I received loving calls and messages on my phone and social media. This is something I enjoy; I take the time to respond one by one. I'm grateful to have received such appreciation from my loved ones.
I've been quite reflective these days. I think, for example, about how age relates to our lifestyle. The topics of conversation adapt to them: in childhood, there was always something to do with crayons and drawings; later, popular bands or singers, then movies. Then children arrive, and the topics change again. Everything related to their growth is discussed in our discussions. Finally, at this age, and due to the circumstances, since I'm living with close people, goodbyes come to the fore.
My friends are around my age, with their own ailments. I visited a sister-in-law the day before, who was suffering from kidney disease. She's 83 years old, an optimistic and cheerful person who sees something to learn in everything that happens to her.
Then I traveled to another city to visit another friend, 87 years old, who is in very poor health. Sometimes she recognizes me. It's a painful goodbye because she has been a very special person in my life.
I think we do a lot to welcome a new being into this world, but we haven't yet learned how to say goodbye to the one who, inevitably, leaves. We will all leave at the right time, but we don't know how to face such a natural process as dying, and for now, I don't think I can accept it.
I reach 69 years of age, grateful, content, and with convictions that make me who I am. We are not the same; But we have the same rights. We don't feel emotions the same way. I even think there are no words to describe some of them. We feel them but don't know how to describe them. Although we share beliefs, we don't experience them the same way. We are unique and unrepeatable, and that makes us worthy of establishing that exchange to get to know each other better. Long live life, long live love.
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I think we do a lot to welcome a new being into this world, but we haven't yet learned how to say goodbye to the one who, inevitably, leaves. We will all leave at the right time, but we don't know how to face such a natural process as dying, and for now, I don't think I can accept it.
We celebrate your many years, irrefutable proof that you have lived fully, facing both moments of joy and pain. Life is a continuous flow, like the waves of the sea that rise and fall, bringing us unexpected gifts and sometimes snatching away beloved treasures.
It is natural to feel sadness at the departure of a family member, a friend, a classmate, a neighbour: because true love always leaves its mark on our hearts. But remember that every ending is also a new beginning, a necessary transformation in the cycle of existence.
Just as we learn to enjoy the good moments ‘a meal shared with friends, the warmth of the sun on our skin, or the spontaneous laughter of a child’; we must also prepare ourselves for the final journey, the one we will all eventually undertake. Not as something macabre, but as a natural part of our human condition.
Your wisdom, forged over the years, allows you to understand that death is not the opposite of life, but its complement. That each farewell teaches us to value encounters more, and that the most precious legacy we leave behind is not material things, but the love we share and the seeds of good we sow in other hearts.
Today we celebrate your life, we remember fondly those who are no longer physically here, but are still alive in our hearts, and we honour the eternal cycle of existence. Let us continue to live fully, with gratitude for what we have experienced and hope for the future, knowing that each day is a precious gift. This from someone who has suffered losses in which I had to be the first to leave.
The elegance of those years is represented in your face my beautiful friend, it is that smile and that peace that makes you beautiful.
Congratulations today and always.
How lovely, thank you for those words.
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I hope you saved me some cake Charjaim! Happy Happy Happy birthday, and hug yourself every day, not just on your birthday. I hope you have a wonderful year this year :)
Sure, thank you very much.
Happy trip around the sun dear friend. May joy and peace be steps wherever you rest.That for many years they continue to bless with the lucids of your reflections and experiences. Congratulations
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Happy Birthday.To celebrate life.What all blessings accompany you and that luminous smile is not missing.Hugs of light