Celebration

Celebration 

When it comes to a 'special celebration' what i think about is the celebration of my great-grandmother birthday (my dad's grandmother). She is currently 97 years old and fortunately she is still very healthy for her age, she doesen't need wheelchair or a walking stick, she can walk by her own, very slowly actually but she can.  

Well, about the celebration. Every year since she turned 90, my grandmother (who has an incredible vitality by the way), makes her a really big birthday. She invites the whole family, and we end up being a quite big group, because my great-grandmother had one son and four daughters, and, every one of them had three or four children, then those children had around three or two children (that's my generation), and actually some of my cousins already had children. So, if you count every single person in the family we end up being a lot, i couldn't say how many. It is a regular birthday, with balloons, a birthday cake and presents, but with a lot of people.

The funny thing is that i'm never excited about going to this celebration, because meeting with the whole family, literally whole, means they are going to ask you a lot of silly quiestion and sometimes they judge you for anything, especially the older generations, but i think that the fact we all do this for my great-grandmother is really nice because sometimes, as people grow old, their family tends to forget about them, and everyone needs affection and consideration despite everything.