Happy Birthday to Me Every Day!

I believe in having fun, I just cannot believe in Birthday celebrations, I just do not get why you have to wait a whole year to celebrate life,

Just waking up in the morning every day is a great reason for celebration,

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And then the things we do to supposedly celebrate birthday, all of them the opposite of a celebration, as if we are so hung up on celebrating birthdays, we should be celebrating by doing thinks to extend our lives, and not going on a self destructive binge that steals away a few days of your life every time we go on one of those "celebrations'.

Just think about it for a moment. We go on a drinking rampage, causing irreparable damage to our brain, our stomach, our liver, our blood vessels, we act like fools and get stinking breath, stinking clothes, stinking attitude, and next day, we usually feel like we would rather be dead.

We engage in promiscuous activities with people that could just be bringing us closer to the grave. I mean; statistically 7 out of every ten people you ever get involved with sexually have or will have developed by the age of 25, some kind of sexually transmitted disease; which could go from a simple wart, to Gonorrhea, syphilis, Hepatitis B or even Aids.

We should truly do our homework before we even go around kissing someone in the mouth, as one simple kiss is sufficient to condemn you to a life of pain.

We either eat excessively, or don't eat at all; we miss a lot of our vital sleep, and let us not talk about drug abuse.

Statistics shows that every "normal" birthday celebration, steals an average of 7 days off the life of a person. And you dare to call it Birthday celebration; we should call it Birthday suicidal tendencies.

Celebration does not require a special day, or any of the above aberrations, it just takes the wonderful realization that we are special children of God, made in his own image, that we have thousands of miles of veins in our body through which our precious blood runs in such an intricate pattern that only the great architect of life could have created it. It is looking at a clear sky in the Morning and seeing the beauty of this majestic world and this marvelous life.

We can celebrate with friends and family, or just alone in a quiet corner of hour home. We can celebrate watching a movie, or reading a book we like, sipping of a cup of tea at a restaurant, or contemplating people passing by on the streets.

Celebrating life is connecting with God and his creation, and letting our surroundings tell us how wonderful life is.

Yet we learn that a glass of wine is good for our health so we go and buy 6 bottles, and drink them all in one sitting. And we call it celebration; I call it terminal stupidity.

Somebody said once, wisdom is Application of knowledge in practical ways. So let us be practical and celebrate life every day, in ways that do not challenge our knowledge, so instead of being called fools, we would be called wise.

Rev. Jose A. Luna

A servant of Christ Jesus

Happy Birthday to Me Every Day!

How To Come Up With Brilliant Birthday Gift Ideas?

If you are having a tough time deciding what to give as a birthday present and make it look brilliant then you are in a good company. That is how I used to feel, even until now because it is really hard at times to catch up with all the changes. I am not only referring to trend or hype but more to changes that happen to a person.

For example, right now my daughter is four years old. Believe it or not, the thing she wants the most for her birthday is an iPhone. She is greatly influenced by her uncle and auntie who always allow her to mess around with all the games and entertaining Application in their mobile phones.

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Giving her what she wants right now would be very brilliant, right?

If that is the case then I would simply ask for a Ferrari on my birthday from my wife and in return, she will ask me for the shopping trip to Paris or New York in return.

Again, this sounds really brilliant but coming back to reality; are all these feasible?

It is true that to come up with brilliant gifts ideas for birthdays, all we need to do is ask but more often than not, we do not like the answer we get. Asking is good but only to serve as a guide to what we need to consider.

In the case of my daughter, I now know that she likes digital entertainment, and perhaps something with a small size. Immediately these two things come to my mind; a mobile PlayStation or a Game Boy. These two have what my daughter wants and they are much cheaper than the phone.

The point that I am trying to make right now is this: explore the concept behind the answer you get when asking someone what he or she want for the birthday and adjust your gift accordingly to the preference. It is not hard to do and the best payoff is you probably win the favor of coming up with the best gift ever.

What else can you do to search for ideas?

You can observe what that person collect. If they display something and talk enthusiastically about it, obviously they are attracted to it.

You can also talk to their close counterpart. They might know what you could come up as the best gift since they know the person a bit better. But this is a generalization, of course, because I do come across couples who have no ideas what each other like best.

How To Come Up With Brilliant Birthday Gift Ideas?