Years Later

Birthdays. Long ago, when I was pretty little (yeah there was a time when I was little too, I think) I was asked by a person, "Do you think we should celebrate birthday's?" I replied by saying, "Yes, why not?" Then he tells me "It's another year less in your life time, don't you think you should be sad instead of happy?" Like I said, I was little back then (Yes, I know it might be teeny bit tough to believe so), so I honestly couldn't answer back in anyway.

This year, my homeroom, 902, has decided to celebrate everyone's b-day in the homeroom, and I was having a b-day conversation with someone very close. It reminded me of the above mentioned questions. It also reminded me of how I asked the same questions, about a year or two ago, to one of my friends. And he said, "If you should be sad on your b-days because it's another year less in your life, then you should be sad every second of your life since it's a second less from your lifetime." I honestly felt like I found the answer to the questions I was asked years earlier and well, felt slow about it too, because it wasn't a hard to guess answer.

Too much of reminiscing for me, I think I lost the point of this post. However, by re-reading it, I think I was trying to say that we should look for happiness in every moment, celebrate it on every occasion we can, not necessarily birthdays, but in life generally.

So, after being asked those questions almost about a decade ago, finding it's answer a year or two ago, and reminiscing about it till a minute ago, this can be an example of a thought process of an IB student. A nerd, and, well, a person who actually remembers to answer the questions he is asked, no matter how long it takes.