BIRTHDAY
It was a day like every other, but it just so happened to be my birthday. I am of an age, where celebrating my accelerated distancing from youth no longer holds much merit, but when I walked into the house after a long day at work, I can not deny that it didn't make me happy.
I could see the balloons and streamers of course. They were impossible to miss, but that didn't change the fact that something special had been done.
"Hello?" I called out from the bottom of the stairs as I slowly unlaced my shoes and placed them on the rack. "I'm home."
There was no reply. I shrugged out of my coat and hung it in the closet, then climbed up the stairs to the main floor.
"Surprise!" A chorus of voices greeted me. And it was.
I had not expected this, not in the least, and I felt a warm wash of emotion pass over me as I surveyed the room. This was magnificent. I had stepped into a room full of family and my closest friends. I scanned their smiling faces, and felt myself smiling in return.
The impromptu standoff came to a quick close and I accepted a cold drink into my hand. I'd started off the day with no intention of making a celebration out of this day, but it was hard to not get caught up in the moment.
Being in a room full of people who are happy to be there on your account has that effect. It is almost impossible to deny. I slowly made the rounds, talking to the people I had not had time to see or visit with in weeks, and sometimes months. You reach a certain age and it is hard to find the time outside of your existing obligations to enjoy the finer things in life, and the finer people who are a part of it.
But sometimes, it is the little things that remind u of what is important. Sometimes it takes a moment in time to remind us about the things that truly matter in life. A job and money are important, but they should only be important as a means of supporting what truly is.
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