Happy Birthday!

Today's topic is birthdays: those very special days which define you, make you special and unique just because you were born on that day.

Isn't it funny when you meet someone who was born on your same day? Like my friends Tiffy and Djules who both celebrated their birthday yesterday... happy birthday ladies! :*

Such a coincidence makes you think about odds and probabilities and all those statistics..

Which leads me to the next point: an event like a birthday is not a coincidence here because, guess what? Everyone is born on the same day, the easiest and most obvious you can think of:

I am aware of the fact that this happens everywhere in the world so that does not come as a surprise. I have always been surprised though by this choice. Why the 1st of January? And why is everyone assigned to that date? Can't they just pick days randomly? I mean here almost 85% of the population is born on the 1st of January and that just creates confusion (especially when they also have the same name which yes happens quite often, too). Besides what is this hurry of choosing the 1st of January? That makes you basically one year older cause you would be born right at the beginning of the year!

Anyways, I can just let you imagine all the conversations I had with some locals at the beginning when I was asking birthday related questions: what is your sign, what is your element and stuff like that. I could see black holes in their eyes; astronomy is definitely a non existing science here.

Plus birthdays are not that important; they are all born on the same day, no big deal. You cannot have a big celebration for the whole population of the village, definitely cannot bake cakes and/or blow candles on them. Think of all the things that happen to you on your birthday: 90% of those are not likely to happen here. No presents, no cards, no flowers, no wishes. 

So a birthday is just another day.

But I am a huge fan of birthday, its the day on which you were born, that gotta count for something right? Celebrate it properly, it only happens once a year.

This is why today I also want to say happy birthday to my friend Gaga!!

Even if civilization is a bit far away, it's hard to forget days like this!