At last…broke the jinx!

This year will always be special…for it is the year the greatest jinx of my life has been broken.

This blog post is mainly to thank (though most of them wouldn’t accept it and would throttle me if I say ‘thanks’ :D) all those who’ve unintentionally and most unwittingly broken the jinx.

Although I’ve celebrated all my birthdays with great fervor and each of them has its special moments, the birthdays (ya, plural :P) I’ve celebrated this year will remain the most special.

Thanks to my birthday falling on a weekday during the vacations most of the time (a deadly combination when you are accessible to neither your friends nor family), or having commitments like exams/ souvenirs (:D) or things going wrong or whatever other reasons, it’s been 10 long years since I’ve celebrated my birthday, ON MY BIRTHDAY. Not only that, due to the same reason and various other reasons, it’s been the same duration of time since I’ve cut a birthday cake! (Birthday cakes are usually not cut other than on the birthday, except in IT companies :P, which was good for me btw :D as you will see...).

In the beginning I tried to prevent the jinx as much as possible, but soon realized that it was as inevitable as, well, my jinx, and gave up. Till last year whenever anyone asked me about what I would do on my birthday, I would say ‘I will sit at home and watch TV’ and enjoy the weird expressions on their faces.

This year – no vacation but my b’day falls on a weekend! And when there's a bandh!  :(
And I dared not plan anything other than shutting up and sitting at home!

And then my wonderful friends and cousins surprised me that day and broke the jinx!

So, why the late thanks?

I had another wonderful surprise today when my team members most unexpectedly arranged another birthday bash (combined with the b’days of 3 others, but anyways broke the jinx again) today!!!

So I thank

My friends for surprising me (u really got me that day!) and coming all the way in spite of the bandh (thanks also to those who wanted to come but couldn't becoz of the bandh) and breaking the jinx…

My cousins for enduring the long distance travel and making the surprising arrangements for my birthday regardless of the bandh and breaking the jinx…

My colleagues for surprising me today and breaking the jinx…

You know how some small gestures go a long way and unwittingly change a person’s perspective of something? ....