Is it a time for celebration or is it a time of reflection?
After all, it does mark your demise. But it's a day when all the attention is
on you. There's a ritual to this as we turn light into darkness by blowing out
candles on a cake after observing how many there are. But does it mark another
year of survival? Is it an opportunity to compare your progress to your peers?
Whatever it is, society believes that it should be marked in some way. It's as
if it's commemorating successful intercourse between two people around nine
months before this date. And now we gather and send gifts and share cake and send
cards if we can't be there or in this day and age a photo message on social
media is dispatched instead. It's a great indication of who your friends and
allies are. But don't forget that it's just as important to take part in the
celebration of theirs as well.
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