Your dearest friend is turning 40. She has everything that she wished for in material terms; and she is not at all materialistic.
What could be the perfect birthday gift for her?
I racked my brains for over a month for something meaningful that she would not forget in a long long time (she is such a forgetful person; you see).
A little about our history so that you can imagine my dilemma -
Fact: We have been friends for well over 30 years ever since we came to live in the same apartment building.
Fact: We went to the same school, college right from under-grad to post-grad.
Fact: She married another one of my friends from the same building and thus continued to live in the same building
Fact: She has very specific tastes that differ dramatically from my own
I chanced to read on social media that "If you have been friends with someone since childhood and you have fond memories with them ever since, then you are one lucky person". That gave me an idea of all of our common friends (actually almost 95% of them are common considering the above facts) telling her on her special day how lucky we were to have a friend like her.
But how?
Now since I still have the remnants of my erstwhile IT-life, I can't think beyond presentations and Microsoft I guess. Hmmmmm!
So, we did a presentation on "A trip through memory lane of being Priya".
We collected some of the choicest pictures from four decades and cataloged them by year so that we could all see how she has grown through these. It was a difficult task - getting pictures from everybody, cataloging them chronologically but it was sooooo worth it. We were very naughty too - we paraphrased most of the photos with anecdotes that we remembered.
Guess what? She was overwhelmed. Not only about this but because we used Google Hangout so that our common friends from all over the world could wish her while she was cutting the birthday cake.
If you have some special people in your life, do remember to thank them and overwhelm them with gestures like these and you can create more special memories to remember in the future.
Just an idea!
What could be the perfect birthday gift for her?
I racked my brains for over a month for something meaningful that she would not forget in a long long time (she is such a forgetful person; you see).
A little about our history so that you can imagine my dilemma -
Fact: We have been friends for well over 30 years ever since we came to live in the same apartment building.
Fact: We went to the same school, college right from under-grad to post-grad.
Fact: She married another one of my friends from the same building and thus continued to live in the same building
Fact: She has very specific tastes that differ dramatically from my own
I chanced to read on social media that "If you have been friends with someone since childhood and you have fond memories with them ever since, then you are one lucky person". That gave me an idea of all of our common friends (actually almost 95% of them are common considering the above facts) telling her on her special day how lucky we were to have a friend like her.But how?
Now since I still have the remnants of my erstwhile IT-life, I can't think beyond presentations and Microsoft I guess. Hmmmmm!
So, we did a presentation on "A trip through memory lane of being Priya".
We collected some of the choicest pictures from four decades and cataloged them by year so that we could all see how she has grown through these. It was a difficult task - getting pictures from everybody, cataloging them chronologically but it was sooooo worth it. We were very naughty too - we paraphrased most of the photos with anecdotes that we remembered.
Guess what? She was overwhelmed. Not only about this but because we used Google Hangout so that our common friends from all over the world could wish her while she was cutting the birthday cake.
If you have some special people in your life, do remember to thank them and overwhelm them with gestures like these and you can create more special memories to remember in the future.
Just an idea!
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