There are days only 10% of the child has gone past the 3rd year of life. A celebration is needed to inform the society that a child has crossed one more year. More birthdays in a country for a year means more children’s are alive. Society’s way of communicating to each other is that children are healthy and on the right track.
The concept of birthday to bring other healthy children’s to the birthday party. It is one of knowing the healthy children’s in that locality. The children bring gifts for the birthday child of crossing a year in health and they collect gifts from the birthday child, a way to mean they too crossed a few years.
Society allows to take census among the people and to know how far their success ratio is in bringing the children in healthy mode. The preparation of a birthday party even though expensive. We celebrate and kind of thanksgiving to this world. I watched even poor families save and celebrate their children’s birthdays. It has a deep root to the relationship of staying on earth.
Finally
It is an ‘initiation’ for the children to stand one day as a hero in a year to understand the importance of them to their surroundings and to society. It is like a child has earned something and is willing to share with gratitude.