Hello Steem people !!!

Today it's my birthday and since birthdays have grown to become a very special part of our culture, I thought to tell you a little story about how they were established! What do you think? Shall we make a move 😚?

So if you think birthdays is a thing of the last couple of centuries....you are wayyy too wrong lol!

The first person that celebrated his birthday was way back, in Ancient Egypt according to my Bible! We are talking  3,000 B.C.E. approximately!!! 

In Ancient Greece now, while people wanted to find a way to express their gratitude to the lunar Goddess Artemis they came up with something really beautiful!

They added candles on the moon shape cakes they were making- very creative minds right?- which of course, they lit up so the would make a kind of glowy moon shine special effects 😉!!!

The Romans now, next in line, weren't as creative but still they managed to really take the event, a step further down!

Now it was not just about Kings, Gods and Goddesses but also humans! 

Well to clarify that, I mean all the male humans ....since we female, had to wait  a few more centuries - about 10 more or less- for starting celebrating ours! 

So after the female poplulation, of Europe mostly, started celebrating it as well, the children took over and I think, made it really BIG in Germany !!! 

As it would be expected since children have a special way to always make things happen more beautiful and bigger 😀 !!

The reason was because back in Germany of 18th Century - and not only - as you would assume, life was really hard and sometimes the weakest to survive and thrive were children!

So every year those precious children were still alive,were celebrated with a little cake made for them 😚!!!

So after that, the rest is history, when the Industrial Revolution happened, a birthday was the next BIG thing for everybody with big and tasty cakes! Now here, you have to bare in mind that until then, cakes were only for the wealthy!!!

And it might be normal for us to walk anywhere and get anything that might please our appetite, right, but back then, things were much different!!

Let's not forget that  Marie Antoinette was killed because she had NO IDEA WHATSOEVER, that her people were starving to death from famine!!!! 

But I will not get you into that just because, it's my birthday.... so only beautiful things today  😀 !!!!

After all this detailed little story, I believe that a "birthday", is still a day like all the rest of the days of the calendar year! 

Yes of course it is, but it is also a day that creates a chance to get to see the people you love ❤ and love  you back ❤ and spend quality time with them! Am I right? 

Well I really have to leave your beautiful company, here on Steemit, right now and go finish some of the preparations for later on!

I hope you had fun going through my post today. Also let me know, if someone else shares his/her birthday on the 15th of February like me 😚?

I don't want to sound cliché by putting a birthday song for closure! So instead.... I will go with one for the lovers, that celebrated yesterday 😉!!!

Until next time, I send you all my love and kisses and don't forget to keep shining with that big smile on your face 😀  ❤ ❤ ❤  !!!   

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source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/history-of-birthdays_n_4227366.html