dedicated to another year

What does one more year do to you?

So, it’s another year for you, an added amount to your age, another birthday party, another birthday cake, and of course, another series of “happy birthday”s from your closest friends, but to think about it, is that all there is to it?

In that one year you had shook the hands of a lot of different people, people you never thought you would meet before. In that way you had learnt how to interact with them, speak in languages you don’t even knew existed, knew other meanings to words and ideas you had never known before. In that way, you had met me.

In that one year, you had been places you have never thought you would be before. Share feelings with people of different races, different cultures and different frame of mind, and then smile at them, all the while knowing that they still connect with your ways of thinking in some weird cosmic ways. In that way, in the pass one year you had realised just how equal we really are all.

In that one year you had written songs, driven miles, played guitars, read books,……and won video games wager with your friends….
In that one year you had gained weight and then lost some, before gaining them back again.
In that one year you had realised that you liked The Killers, that there is actually a band called the Darkness, felt that Hip Hop wasn’t so bad after all, and that Dance music is something you can finally relate to (at least to some extent)
In that one year you had shown people that even the ones who don’t give a fuck still have some needs to change their hairdos…………in that way you had gone from full hair to near-bold to a Jewfro.
In that one year you had apprehended more things than before, see through things than what most people would never had normally seen, and at the same time experienced differently distinct feelings a person could possibly have felt.
In that one year you have loved, hated and despised. You had adored and been adored, been ridiculous and funny and hilarious to the point where you feel like you finally found where you belonged.
In that one year you had missed and been missed. You had said goodbyes and hellos and thankyous to people you like and don’t like to say them to. You had learnt to deal with the loss and the pain of the first, the joy and anxiety of the second, and the blissfulness of the last.
In the pass one year you had and been touched with people and things that is at present proved to be quite influential into determining your feelings and thoughts. You have been all of that in 365 days,………confiding and relieving, trying and giving,……all the while, you had been a better person in the end……..

We love you, BBB,…among those people who miss you, we are the ones at the very front……