Why my Birthday 🎉 Celebration in the LockDown was The Best 🎊

Sanchit Banati
6 min readAug 8, 2020

Every year you get a new age and with a new age a new person is born who should left all the things behind and be the great.

With every new age a new person should be born not an extension for the previous one.

This pandemic have turned celebrations 🎊 like birthday’s, anniversary and other festive moments into a plain blank day and made everyone to throw all of their plans down the road 🚧 and forced us in spending the special day staying at home and holding us from going outside to a bar or cafe 😋 with friends and family. 👪

This pandemic made us realized how these things are precious to us, from going to a movie with the loved one’s or going out with friends on a birthday celebration.

Many have lost the opportunity to spend their special day and have been held back from having a big celebration or even go out and to a dinner or clubbing.

I was hoping I would be able to spend my birthday not like this and was one of first one’s to spend their birthday after lock-down, but faith had some other plans made for me.

I could literally say whether or not I was not able to go out with my college friends but it was one of the best birthday’s I have ever celebrated. Many of you will be wondering how could this person have spent their lockdown birthday and saying it was one of the best.

So friends hold on wherever you are reading this whether on a phone or on laptops, just hold on and keep on reading to unravel how I spent my lock down birthday which I deemed to be one of the best ever in my short lifespan.

So on 7th August 2020 I turned 19 and with that new number I became a new person which had all the best things of my previous self and I had let go of all the worries and attached string’s of my past 18 year old.

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Why is that when we are young we want to become older : Imagine those school life day’s when you want to turn old and be mature to have your first ever drink and go to college or be of legal age to get your driving license, but why did this feeling is vanished when we are in 30’s or 40’s :- answer to this my friend who is reading this is “ We are afraid of the change, we think life is happening to us, we want our life to be as it is because we at this age are afraid that we will not be able to handle drastic changes.”

I was fortunate enough to understand the above para-diam and I knew a new person is born on 7th August 2020 which will achieve great things in his 1 year life as me as a 19 year old have 365 days to live and when you know your living span you will do things as if it could be last moment and when you develop this practice my friend- be prepared to be gifted wonderful things along your journey.

So the very first thing my 19 year new born child did was: - be bold enough in front of a camera and shot a short video of what he want to achieve in his 365 days of lifespan and not looking back and connecting the dots and regretting his past decision but be bold enough to make those new dots to achieve greatness and do thing he has never dream of.

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SEEKING DISCOMFORT was my 19 year new born mantra, to do things which he is either afraid of or the things which are out of his comfort zone. If any YES THEORY family is reading this “ I hope you are able to understand what I am saying, and if you want the same thing please feel free to contact me if you want to do things with a partner or a friend who is crazy enough to make his discomfort turn into comfort.”

So I knew not many people are gonna wish me birthday because I tend to keep my personal things low and because not my college going students want to be on a journey of FIRE ( Financial Independence, Retire Early ) so most of the people I spend time with are far more mature and older than me, which is the best thing I have. To learn from people who have already done is.

I was in a meeting when the clock turn 00:00 and I knew no one was gonna call and I was prepared for that, because instead of 100 fake wishes I received 20 wishes which meant the world to me.

First one to wish me was my MOM followed by sister and brother. Later my work mates also wished we. Later the day when I woke up almost 4 pm in the afternoon I saw the messages from my friends and family.

For many of the people out there, these were just words but for me I felt the emotion and the gratitude behind all of those words.

So let’s skip the middle and come to the part why it was one of the best birthday’s ever.

So my team members at FightPandemics are one of the best people I could ever meet in my life, they planned a virtual game to be played on my special day. Their were 7 of us and we started after our Marketing meeting, and before that they wished me and to be honest their wishes meant a lot to me and how the things they said and did for me was completely like I was a member of their family and we are a big happy working family at FP, we are constantly learning and growing each and everyday.

In the start the game was interesting and we all were excited to do this, momentum was building up but after hour and half things getting started to get stagnate but our team never gives up and after a long constant battle for 2.5 hours long we were able to finish the game and it meant a lot to me as all of people were so supportive and made a huge amount of time for me, which was the highlight of the day.

Small things you do for people can mean a lot to them and this was exactly the same for me, those little things like Andrew Kline wearing a hat for me, Yegor Golovnia & Andrea Ang making a plan to play the game, Federica Zanini always their for the fun part, Manuel Gonzalez Alzuru sparing those hours for me and the wishes from all the team of FP was the best thing for me and I will always be great-full for them.

So that’s a brief of how I spent my 19 birthday with friends, family and it was one of the best and wish the time it have it could achieve great things before a 20 year old one is born.

Love you GUYS ……

Cheers. 🥂 🥂 🥂

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Sanchit Banati

Just a normal person trying to do new things. Be a Practitioner nor an Expert.