clipped from: historygifts.wordpress.com A birthday is a day of happiness, a day for sharing feelings, and a time for celebrating a very important person. Any birthday is an especially important day, a time for family and friends to let you know how special they think you are. Birthdays are a day for royal treatment and unexpected thrills, a day when your life feels like a fantasy and your dreams become realities, after all birthdays are a memorable occasion that happens once a year. This is especially true given the fact that a birthday is significant and is never repeated. A birthday is a time to celebrate birth itself, the joy of life. It is also an occasion to rethink your life and wish for a renewed sense of passion for the gift of life itself: How great is the disparity between what one has accomplished and what one can accomplish?