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Birthdays! I love birthdays: drinks all around!
Most members of my family managed to be born in spring, that is why March and April are the most festive months of the year here. We used to organize thematic birthdays parties, masquerades, family sports competitions and so on. Those parties were hilarious.
Later various diseases started to take us down one by one. So those, who are still alive, have learned to treasure the rare occasions of just gathering around the table talking, sharing recent news and photographs of the past and present.
Somehow birthdays have turned into tributes to those who passed away. There is a tradition to propose the second toast to the birthday girl's or boy's parents. The parents are not with us any longer, and these moments are the most intense and sad.The toast is usually followed by a silence, as everyone goes back to the past mentally for a few moments to meet the dearest ones again. These were the days we thought would never end...
Then I slip into the present and see the little ones fooling around, playing and amusing themselves. They still believe that a birthday is a day of fun, presents and laughter.
I wish they had more happy birthdays than we do.
7 comments:
Remember that the little ones are living in "the good ole days" of their future....
This is what happens when we gather as well, but it's always good to see the little ones dancing around as they are our future.
Lovely post.
Lovely post.
Cheers* I am proud to be a March baby! ~Happy Spring*
We have two spring babies in our family. Both born in March. The rest are born between September and January.
even im march baby.... gr8
lovely post!!!!
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