Celebrating Birthday and Death Anniversary

July 2, 2008

This is the first time I am not looking forward to celebrate my birthday but I would like to thank those who sent me their warm wishes. Starting from last year, I need to learn on how to cope with the emotional meltdown it brings when my birthday approaches. Jonathan’s death anniversary comes a day after. It also marks that Jonathan have left us for a year. Before this, such incidence are only familiar to me in television. We had scenes where this guy passed away on his birthday and etc.

I would often brush it off as insignificant because it is a work of fiction. But I often forgot that some fiction is inspired by real life occurrences. Little that I know I would experience something like this in real life too soon. This is not TV anymore. Suddenly, such scenes are brought to life and we can’t switch channels this time just because we do not like it. This year’s birthday will not feel the same again because Jonathan has always been around celebrating another year of being alive with me. His birthday falls on 7th of June and followed by mine 3 weeks after so we often celebrate it together.

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