May 15

The first few moments of our lives can be very exhausting because we get to come out from the vagina of a woman while bearing in mind that we are connected to her by an umbilical cord. A month later, we start to get used to our environment. We start to ask ourselves why we are inside a house with people who we don't know anything about. A year later, we are forced to stand in front of a birthday cake with our fingers holding the tip of a knife. We smile, laugh and maybe cry as we watch unfamiliar faces raise their hands and clap for the little feat we have accomplished.

"He is one years old," Some of our mothers would say.

"She is one years old," others would say.

The first year of our lives starts with a positive outcome. By then, we are able to understand new things and we are able to perform new things. By then, we are able to understand that the person we have been taking milk from is our mother and the man