We all have our ways of celebrating birthday's with our families, friends and colleagues. I always bought an item for my girlfriend on her birthday and she too does the same on mine, I remember in one of my birthday, she bought me a white singlet and when it comes to her's in that same year, I bought her a necklace, my girlfriend loved the item's I gave to her. Because, In that moment, I wore the necklace on her, then I was about to leave to another place, she holds me from the back and said another thank you, which makes it the second time.
Some people on their birthdays, you would find them sitting at a place and be thinking of each of the things they have achieved in the just past year, the attitude of thinking of our achievement in our birthdays is good and it's also bad because on a day like that, only what matters should be our happiness and not any material thing's.
Before, I used to think that, on birthdays, the thing that matters is sending of gifts to the birthday celebrant, yet, to give presents is good but because it was a birthday, the thing I see that matter's to me a lot isn't gifts, but it is being in one particular place with the person I cherished.
My family and friends presence in my birthday is what I called, a wall light that's shining bright each day by day.
I am sorry to say this, in my last birthday, I got disappointed because I was at home waiting for my girlfriend who said she was coming around that day and it was our agreement to out and watch a movie together, but I didn't even got a call from my girlfriend, on that day, she treated me like a different person and it was a gift that she sent her sister to deliver to me, although I got the gift she sent, gift or whatsoever present people sent was not the thing I was after.
Because when I have money I can buy the things I want to buy, I tends to be clear on something there and which is that, our activeness attention on the people we love can not be bought with money.
When someone truly loves you, the person is going to make your happiness it own happiness, although I never let her absence on my birthday destroy our relationship, i make up with her immediately because we have come a long way to allow a single absent on a birthday to destroy what we have built for days, yet, the mark of that day still recalled to me somehow, but I am trying the more I can to fight the feelings so that I would not have issues with the one I love.
When a friend of mine, family member or colleague is celebrating a birthday and the person's gave me an invitation to be there on that day for him, even if I am going there with a gift or not, I would not failed to know that, my activeness present must come out first, because I am aware that what matter's most is showing up for our person and on another day's, we can buy whatsoever items we want to buy and sent as a gift.
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