MY RANDOM THOUGHTS, SHORT WRITINGS, POEMS

Today Is My Birthday (Short Story)

Today is my birthday, I see many people arriving in a sequence. People whom I haven't seen for a long time, but they are here again for the first time. As I watch them going across from one place to another, they greet each other with a smile, and gladly held each other's hands for a handshake, and I myself would consider this moment as a big reunion. I am delightful to see them, it's been years, though, well I am just left here at my seat being speechless. This is pure bliss than I thought, and I have never expected this to happen.

Today is my birthday, and I don't know why do I keep reminding this on myself, as if I am afraid to even forget. I consider this day as my very special day, it's really overwhelming that I am seeing those people--- past friends from the university I graduated, and those cool colleagues from the past work I had, from a year ago. They were smiling from cheek to cheek, and I am very glad to see that they were able to meet each other too, you see, I have never got the chance to introduce them to each other, it's a good thing that they do meet now. These people, I know became an essential part of my existence, and like any other precious gem, they were the treasures I would always keep and wouldn't want to exchange for any other things in this world. These people are my family, and like my parents and other relatives, they mean more than the universe to me.

Today is my birthday, I decided to stand and walk nearby the living room, as usual, I see my immediate family and relatives busy talking to each other, well maybe because they have longed enough for this moment to happen, and I do understand what they are feeling too. But, I realized something strange in myself. This is quite weird but, I don't even remember their names. Another is, I am seeing many flowers, with hand-written letters, and all are for me though. As I gaze more around in this room, this might been a hall, I thought-- it's not my home either, it's sort of a place that I've never been before. Then, it struck me, maybe, by chance, I know already what is happening.

Today is my birthday, I see many people arriving in a sequence. People whom I haven't seen for a long time, but they are here again for the first time. I recognized the rectangular shaped thing in front of me, it is my coffin indeed, and solid self sleeping like there's no tomorrow. But, I couldn't cry, I am not saddened, I am rather glad. Today is my birthday, I've noticed the sorrow and pain from their eyes, in the way they smile, and the way they try to laugh from reminiscing our memories--- I see those emotions that they were trying to conceal, that they were trying to hide. Maybe they just want me to be at peace. And I don't care why this happened to me, and why me, all I know now, is that I am genuinely happy, that at the very least moment of my life, I may not breathe, but they will live in my heart throughout the end, eternally. 

Today is my birthday, and this is different from all the other birthdays I've had in my life. This is the best, for at the end, this event had fulfilled the most important wish I wanted to achieve-- it is to see them all complete, and make them feel that I am always around. I will never be far away, and I will wait for the chance that soon, I'd be seeing them again, like the old times. Today is my birthday, their pain will surely pass soon, and the last wish I want for them to achieve, is to heal from losing me too.