Happy birthday

I used to wonder why people celebrated birthdays. What is the point to celebrate that you are getting older and older? Then it occured to me that maybe people celebrated because they were still here, still able to celebrate - perhaps whole birthday should be named as celebration of life. But even in this case it seems to me that we should celebrate every day, not just on certain occassions when earth has completed its trip around the sun.

I got the following email today and it even took me couple of minutes before I realized who I got it from.

From: FutureMe.org
Subject: Hello future Harri

(this message was composed on Fri, Feb 6, 2004)

And happy birthday. Well I know you don't celebrate birthdays but 30 - man, I hope you're still the same Peter Pan as the one who's writing this email. Of course you have changed but to better I hope ;)

I'm just writing this in English as you should be out of the country by now. Where? Ireland? Time goes fast, huh? I wonder what have you learned (if anything) during this time.

In any case I hope that you're not in Jyväskylä when reading this email...

Anyway enjoy the moment wherever you are. Carpe diem.