Hurra!

I´ve become 26 years old!

A quick reflection is in place.
Age is a strange thing. I´m less than 1/3 as old as my grandmother. Proportionally, she will become less older than me in the future.
When giving birth, parents are hundreds of millions of times older than their baby. Then, at one point they´re only twice as old, and at the age of 80 they could be just 0.25 times older.
Maybe this dramatic change is why older people always say that you´ve grown so much since last time. What was once a little bundle becomes a peer, standing tall beside you and looking into your eyes with superior intelligence and strength. (I´m not talking about aliens.)

Birthdays are uncomfortable to some people, who see them simply as an incrementation of a 1, 2 or possibly 3-digit number. I see this day not as a celebration of getting older, but that you survived the preceding year!
Nothing is certain in this life, let´s never take a sunrise for granted... Every morning is a victory.

Every time the atmosphere ignites a falling star, it protects you.
You are here thanks to it.
And thanks to everyone who was here before you.

We are lucky to be born on this planet, because on another planet we would die before even drawing our first breath.