Re: Event

Barry Garcia wrote:

> abrigon@yahoo.com writes:
> >Would you classify a birthday, as in "happy birthday", as a spiritual
> >event, a day,
> >or an event, or what...
>
> I wouldn't classify it as spiritual for me, and it's not just another day.
> It's a special day to celebrate with friends and family. It's one of those
> societal rites of passage (especially my 21st birthday when I become fully
> legal, and my friends determined to get me drunk :)). It's a special day
> no doubt, but it's not on par with say, a spiritual awakening.
For my birthdays are just a day you are special, not because there is any
spiritual thing involved but because is just a day people will think on you,
and there is an excuse to have fun.

Well.  I remember that the two less special birthdays I had where when I
became 18 and 21.  18 is the legal adulthood in Colombia, while 21 has an
special connotation as traditional adulthood.

When I became 18 I was in Sweden with my mother.  My father was in Chile and
all my family, relatives and school friends were in Colombia.  Next day we
were comming to Colombia for vacations and everithing was quite.  If I
remember correctly that day snowed in the evening, so there was nothing
special in that 29th November, but the white goodbye Stockholm gave me next
morning.

When I became 21, I was back in Colombia, and I had work to do for next day
at college.  Quite a big piece of work, so I spend the whole afternoon and
evening working with my companions.

-- Carlos Th