Happy Birthday to Missclueless

“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” ― Virginia Woolf

As for me, I said I’d buy the cake myself. To celebrate my birthday. Celebrate getting older and more fabulous. That’s what.

When you take nice photos on occasions like this, you want to share them on your social media. But I don’t feel like it for some reason.

It’s that there is so much sad news, bad news, so much chaos in the world right now. Was it always like this? I don't know. But I seem to be more aware of things now, and that's disturbing.

That terrible plane crash in Ahmedabad. It hurts to think of the families and loved ones of the deceased. It hurts to think of the medical students who lost their lives. From Manipur, we lost two sisters in that crash.

It is saddening to think of the 60,000 displaced people in Manipur who are unable to live a life with dignity; some ended their lives out of depression, and many among the living are also depressed, no doubt.

The Palestinians, the children especially, the children!!.

News of war, bombs, missiles, and starving children—every day, happening in other countries and places too.

Climate crisis: it's getting harder and harder to get by every day.

Sad world.

Sometimes I want to get away from all this and live in a cabin in the jungle with birds, cats, and dogs. But then I’m afraid of dangerous wild animals. What if I get attacked or, worse, eaten? What if unwanted strangers find me? Scary!

Leave that thought.

But one deserves to be happy on one's birthday. Right? So let me be. Happy Birthday to me!

P.S.: I’ve never willingly celebrated any of my birthdays before. Last year, I didn't even cut a cake. Just my sister and brother-in-law took me to Kangla on the weekend, and we ate out. This time, I decided to do something despite everything. To lighten up a bit. And also I'm liking getting older and a little bit wiser. \^o^/ I bought myself a cake, called everyone just in the family, cut the cake, and took them out to dinner. It went fine, alright.

Maybe I'll post on Instagram anyway.

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