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Tomorrow, I turn a year older!! Unlike last time, this time I am actually looking forward to my birthday: I shall soon be legally an adult in all the nations of the world! Ha! Ha! Feels good....
Of course, unlike last year, there are no grand-scale celebrations but still I shall try making the most of my birthday...

After having lived 21 years of life with mostly ups and a few downs, I feel thankful. I have achieved a lot of things but I still have 'miles to go'. I am grateful for having a wonderful, supportive family; a lot of true friends who genuinely care a lot about me. I am fortunate enough to have scored well in the academic field and am pursuing something I have always wanted to do. 

I hope life continues to shower its blessings on me! I could also do with the good wishes and blessings of all the people who drop in even though am not at all regular anymore - Thank You for all your support and love so far, And I hope you continue being by my side, even if it is in a small way, in the future as well!!

Terrifying Twenty!

20 DAYS TO GO!!

20 days left for me to turn twenty years old!!!
When I was younger, birthdays were always something I looked forward to! The balloons, the cake, the streamers, the presence of my near and dear ones, the gifts...
However, now, as I turn a year older on each birthday, I somehow start dreading the fact that I am getting older!
I was not at all happy on my nineteenth birthday - even though I did have a lot of fun with friends...

Turning 20 is scarier!
The fact that I will never be a teenager anymore is terrifying!
It may seem like an exaggeration, but I really feel that way.

As we grow up, we are expected to become responsible - I am not really sure if I am ready for it! True, it also means being able to do what I want...not having to ask permission from parents all the time, but I would rather have it that way than have an extra candle on my birthday cake!

I am trying to cheer myself up by throwing a big bash on my birthday with all my friends. Most of them have already had their twentieth birthday, and some are twenty-one years old, so a small part of me is happy that I am still younger than most of my peers!
But there is still a large part of me who wants all the celebrations to happen but still remain nineteen!

I know I wish for a lot of things - I don't think I would mind if this one came true!