Something wonderful

It's my natal day and I was happy that only a few greeted me on my birthday though the day is not over yet.

Last night( draft made on 11.12.22), I managed to change the audience that can view my birthday on Facebook because I never wanted a lot of people to greet me. Only those who had remembered greeted me and I think that they are the ones that are "genuine" I am not sure of the word that I am using though.

I made some drama

My colleagues used to make surprises when someone has a birthday and they made some last year. I was happy though and it was fun but I felt like something is missing.

Images are from last year's surprise

My co-workers sang for me and they bought a cake, and balloons for me. I felt special but I felt like I wanted a different audience at that time.

I don't want it to happen this year, good thing that my co-workers did not post any pictures of that event on Facebook or it had reminded them already.

So three days before my birthday, I made a plot and filed a leave of absence and asked the manager to sign it, and informed my co-workers that will not be around on Saturday and it worked!

The plans

I wanted to ditch work and go to the farm and spend the day with my family there but I overlooked my husband's plans on that day. He and his co-workers are having an outing.

In fact, he left at 2 am this morning because they will cook the food that they will be bringing to the beach but he is back already at home at this hour and probably preparing food already. My mother's border had given him culled chicken two days ago and he was reserving it for tonight's viand.

Also, he asked my sister to bake cakes for me; unfortunately, the power went off this morning, and I was told that it will be back at 5 in the afternoon so there is no way she would be baking a cake for dinner.

Husband arranged a surprise

Yesterday, my husband called asking me to get out. He was outside and brought two layers of chiffon cakes that my sister baked for me and my co-workers to eat. I was in denial at first and I told them that it was my son's birthday and the cake was a free taste for them to make orders in the coming Christmas season which was also true.


Today

I felt very lazy about going to work but I still decided to go. I bought my kids the food they loved. I had my breakfast after the kids left at home; my daughters went with their granny and my son was sent to hubby's mother.
While I was trying to sit on the chair, I almost fell down a got hurt by the protruding nail under the table

I bled a little and I was laughing at myself because some people had a custom that the celebrant will be crossed with blood on their forehead on the day of their birthday. I guess they took that practice from the old testament when the Jews were told to mark their door with blood so that the angel of death will pass by and not kill the firstborn in that house; so way to go!

Finding my purpose

no one greeted me in the office and I was keeping quiet about it. No surprises and it felt like a normal day.

My co-worker told us that he visited our co-worker that had a stroke because of hypertension and we all came to an died of asking for donations from all the employees so we could give some to Vincent.

Half of his body was paralyzed and they found out that he had a blood clot in his right brain. he was depressed and does not eat. His wife was still afraid of covid virus and has not visited him yet.

The sad thing is that all the company can give is a cash advance.

The feeling of helping someone is really great and it made my day wonderful. It is very fulfilling.

The feeling of giving and helping exceeded the feeling of being given and I am doing it every day even though I am restricted financially. A little help does not matter as long it comes from the heart.

Such a wonderful realization as another year had been added to my age.

Don't get me wrong, I have been giving before this day too but maybe I only felt it that day realizing that I can be something more in my family and other people's life

It's very funny when you see how you did back then, right? I couldn't imagine I thought of this. People really change a lot and so does their mind

Date posted Jan 16, 2026