Birthdays!!!

Today is my best friend birthday and I started to think why do we celebrate birthdays?

I came up to the conclusion that it all depends in our culture ans society because we all have different ways in wich we celebrate birthdays.

I think that what we celebrate is not exactly the age( number) but more what is symbolizes like getting more mature, accumulating knowledge, having different experiences that help us to grow up and mature faster, etc.

I also think that it also applie

s to other cultures, in fact I don't think that people celebrate at all the number cause then why is everyone so obsses with getting older and staying young forever by finding the fountain of the eternal youth.

If I focus in the relgious side mabe it can symbolize the day when God decided I should come to earth to achieve a specific task.It can also be a day for spending time with all the people you care and love like your family and closest friends.

What ever the reason is I just know that I love

birthdays because it is a day were you can give gifts to your loved ones and its one of the days of the year were you can spoiled them with the things they've been wanting for a while.It is also a day for reminding them how much you loved them and care about their feelings.

Gay "Words",

It is attributed to the Austrian journalist Karl-Marie Kertbeny (1824-1882) the creation of the word “homosexual” the same he used for the first time in one pamphlet of 1869. He wrote in anonymous manner to protest against the law that punished the sodomy. With the word “gay” used as a synonym, was used in the English language since the XII century to refer to the people with lots of happiness. The sexual connotation was acquired at the ends of the XIX century, but to refer to the prostitutes or “women of the happy life”. For men a gay was a conqueror of women, and a gay bar was a brothel. It wasn’t until 1920 when the word was used to refer to the homosexual community, but also was used for heterosexual men “that enjoy the life” or that have certain social appreciation. At the middles of the 60’s decade the word obtained the modern acceptation.

It is interesting how a word is changing through the time. Here is an example. If you look in a dictionary the word “gay” you will find that it is a very happy person, but if you ask a person outside the meaning will be different. This is because the culture is changing and putting new meanings for words. If you travel you can find out that a word could have a different meaning there. I personally have lived it. I then started to think why it is like that. There is a whole vocabulary with different meanings depending on the culture you are. It is quite interesting to know them all, but time will be determinant because new words will have a new social “meaning” while words will have a new social “meaning”. A simple example is our fathers that most of the time they do not know our new vocabulary “meaning”, then they adapted our vocabulary in their vocabulary to be more “new age” people. Interesting.