Special
week for me what with the birthday and all that :) A year older and am
not feeling any the wiser… though I do feel less prettier :( Maybe it’s a mind
thing or a real thing, but you keep wishing you looked like what you looked
like 5 years ago and every 5 years you realise you didn’t look so bad 5 years
earlier. OK, I have not spent that many
decades on this planet as this thought process might suggest, but am sensing
this would be the case going by my experience so far :( Appearances are not
a topic I usually voice my thoughts about, but well… why not? I guess with all the
‘showing-off’ craze and ‘selfie’ menace, one might end up evaluating ones
mugshot a lot more closely and frequently than I think it’s worth.
I
have thought about starting a new trend for myself on my birthday. I am a ‘sucker
for gifts’, as the yuppie brigade would put it, and one of the highlights of my
day is anticipating what my family would be gifting me (well, they are the most
consistent gifters and they dare not be inconsistent ;) ). This time, I thought
to myself, why not give myself a gift too to show how much I love myself? I
usually don’t quote out of movies (looks like I am treading into lot of unknown
ground in this post ;) ), but there’s this line in the movie Jab We Met where
Kareena Kapoor says “Mein apni favourite hoon”—I quite liked it. I mean, who
can love you, pamper you, comfort you, understand you, and be there for you
more than you? So it stands to reason that on your birthday, this most special
person in your life, which is you, should give you a most special gift :) I would think the
process of buying a gift from myself to myself on my birthday should tighten
this bond further, give expression to all these feelings, and make me love
myself more, if that’s possible! ;)
posted by Sylvia D'souza at 1:01 pm
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