Happy birthday

Its my father's birthday today. He has always remained somewhat of an enigma to me. Just when I thought I know him, he surprises me in his own ways.

I used to dislike birthdays. Because I thought it just signals another year that has passed where there is the slow degeneration of your entire system to the inevitable. But I love birthdays now. Because with each birthday, you slowly grow into the person you are to be. Its only with the passing of time where you develop the mental capacity to understand things which you struggled to understand previously but could not, because certain wisdom comes only with age.

Anyway, happy birthday, Papa. You are half a century old today!