Birthday Blues

Birthdays have usually been the day of celebrations. Although I still do not know what the precise reason for celebration has been. Is it completion of one more year in life (the celebration of survival) or Celebrating just the day that you came to this world (the celebration of genesis), or simply you celebrate because you can associate a reason for it (celebration to break boredom) or it is the celebration to show that you can celebrate (celebration of power/money) or celebrate because other force you to (celebrating under others influence) the list can be further elaborated but I will halt with this only. I am not advocating that birthdays should not be celebrated, all I want to know is a strong reason, why it should be celebrated. Well how come suddenly its birthday celebration that I am exploring, well Its my birthday today and I know that I would be celebrating it too, what reason could be associated with it, I am still to decipher.
Past few months have been full of thinking, contemplation, self realization and what not. But above all these months have given a good glimpse of how in reality the cart of life moves. Many of the dreams which I had dreamed of since childhood have been shattered as it is now that I have started realizing that they would exist in dreams only. I had been living with a mind of an entrepreneur from the time when I did not knew how to spell it or what it meant. But it is now that the feeling is starting to sink in that thinking about anything without having the courage to take action, is totally useless and such a person can never end up owning in reality what his thoughts owned. Today 1 more year have been added to my life, though I am still very young but when compared to people whom I have been idolizing all my teenage, have considered this as the age which could be considered as the onset of "old age". Definitely I am down but not out. So what does all this pessimistic rant erupted on my birthday means, well it means that it is a good day to readjust your targets and goals of life. I would not be eliminating everything as that would not do justice to the amount of hours that I had put in thinking over them, but curtailing it, is what is definitely needed. It is always good to be ambitious but being pragmatic at the same time is equally important. Well pragmatism is something that is not meant for dreaming so I did not commit a crime in dreaming un-pragmatically, but when it comes to reality, it is wise to filter each of your dreams with this barometer. I had needed a barrier point from which I can re-adjust all the goals and this day will precisely act as one. It is always good to celebrate the occasion of identification of goal. So now I have found my reason too to celebrate. I am just hoping that I do not end up de-grading my goals every year, a positive adjustment is definitely something that will call for a big celebration.