Birthday always seems so good

Birthday blues or birthday reds, what is your colour ?
I Have great reason to celebrate a milestone and mark this year's birthday with the fullest of celebrations, yet I will not. Why ? Yes you may ask, it or this day, today marks the birthday of my wonderful son Darra, he turns 22 today. The 16th of November.
It is on days like these something just seems different. A day where being daddy and thinking of my son just hits and pulses a little different through the heart chambers, is it love or pain or joy or what exactly ?
To explain better would be to fill you in that Darra died seven years ago and when he was only fifteen he was the bright spark of the future, not only for me but for many in all the circles he moved in. He was a champion child and a very soft natured but strong willed young man. He passed away from what they call Sudden Adult Death Syndrome more commonly knows as SADS. To me his father, this meant nothing as it only explained that his death was unexplainable.
So each year there are anniversaries and birthdays and well this day 16th of November marks the day that I became a father for the first time. I moved from just a guy to being daddy, what a day, I just will never forget it.
I wanted to share a thought for Darra today and for his mammy and his siblings and also all that knew him in his live and those who have learned of him since he has passed.
And of course to ask you to pause for a moment and remember that special day when you became a parent for the first time. It was a very joyous day for me and I think it probably was for you too.
Darra, today is your birthday, happy birthday buddy.

Share in a warm thought of parenthood today with me and take a moment to remember your own heart as it felt when your first child was born. No matter of life's troubles or stress today, take a moment to pause and enjoy this day with me, if even only for a second.
Life is so much more valuable.and or precious each and everyone year.