Birthdays...

Last week was kinda significant in my PG... We had 2 birthdays celebrated within the space of about a week and though we celebrated both in much the same way... it was actually quite touching.

Well, before telling about the singnificance of it all, let me give you all a small peep in my PG. This PG is like a big bungalow with quite a few rooms all stashed with upto three beds with the landlady making sure that she would squeeze every imaginable dime that she's used to build this one. By some strange coincidence she is extremely successful at it even though she is universally hated. God and his ways, I say...

We have a servant who is more like the heart of the house and he's got so much alcohol in his body that if he gets cut we may see streams of rum and whiskey flowing out... Add to this around 15 people; totally unrelated to each other and friends/acquaintances due to the sole reasoning of sharing the same roof.

Now, a few of us have been around for 2 yrs or more while a few have come in past few months... All in all a nice blend of variety all around... U might wonder what does celebrating random birthdays have to do here and rightly so... It really doesnt mean anything...

However, I have observed that this is the first time its happening. The two years have brought us together and given us a familial feel. We care and feel concerned a lot more about each other thn before. Saturdays nowadays necessarily mean lunching out together and weekends is our bonding time. Cards keep us going all through as do the regualr rounds of coffee and teas interspersed with a few ciggys in and around...

We have realized that this is an alien land and the only way to maintain sanity is to make most of what you got in hand... If its few friends, then so be it... Functions, parties and celebrations wasnt the norm-de-rigor but we have adapted it as part of the bonding process.

So this week, when we cut the cakes for A and R.... it was in a strange poetic way the Icing on the Cake for this process of growing up to enjoying life and understanding that "All it really needs to be happy is to learn to be so..."