Fayes T Kantawala writes in The Friday Times
This is the country where people measure one another's killability
I never liked birthday parties as a child. I think it was the end of a good time, rather than aging, that I feared. Even now, when I am no longer able to give my age in fractional time-units without sounding like an insecure thespian, I have a dislike of birthdays. It's not the planning of the event or the execution of the festivities that I dread. It's The End of the Affair. You see, I just can't believe that after all that energy, hard work, crying, despairing, consumption of confectionary and throwing around of confetti, after all that drama, everyone just goes home. That's it? All of that for just those few moments of joy? Read article in Weekly The Friday Times
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