🌟🎈Hello Hivers

February for me is the most important month of the year, because it is the month in which I was born, plus the day of friendship, love and carnivals, which I like very much because I was born on a Tuesday of carnival and I assume that's why I am such a cheerful person, with an authentic personality and without masks. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the Family & Friends community by participating in its first initiative. Here is the link for details and to encourage you to participate. I invite @mugueto2022, @graciadegenios and @evev to tell us their family stories and participate in the initiative.

Today I want to tell you about my 53rd birthday; I know many people who take off their age, or don't like to say it; well, I don't, on the contrary I feel happy, proud and grateful to God for having reached half a coupon and more. 🤣😂😅 For me, age is just a number, the rest is attitude. I have had a wonderful life, with its hits and misses, with its bright nights and with others not so much. With its sunny days and with gray ones too. Friends receive a cordial greeting and a warm embrace, this post comes loaded with thanks.

First of all to God, who through my parents gave me life on February 18, 1969, to my siblings, my family, friends, co-workers, students, alumni, parents, representatives and all those wonderful people that I have met virtually in this last year as you are the beautiful platform of #hive, for making my day unique and wonderful. Since 12:00 a.m. I began to receive congratulations, by all means, in person, by whatsapp statuses, phone calls, text messages among others.

I received many surprises and gifts throughout the day, especially I want to tell you about a video that @mugueto2022 made for me with her husband, they are my nephews, in complicity with my sisters; they located my friends inside and outside the country, brothers, nephews, aunts and cousins who made me feel very loved; it was a very special moment, I felt very excited I was laughing, screaming, clapping, jumping all the emotions together; it was really wonderful. **Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Thanks to my stay in this platform, I was fortunate to have the economic resources to celebrate my birthday with a party, as we, the Escobar Rivas family, like to do. With the help of my brothers, sisters-in-law and friends we had the pleasure of spending a joyful and fun evening full of magic. Music to dance to, lots of food and drinks to share and the best of all a reunion among friends. Blessed the phrase "to remember is to live".

Today I am grateful for life, health, friends and especially family. My family, my brothers, nephews, nieces, sisters-in-law and childhood friends, who today are also part of the family. We gathered to share a happy and remembered birthday, as in the old days we danced to the beat of the best hits of my time in the salsa genre: El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, La Sonora Ponceña, Ruben Blades, Gilberto Santarosa, Grupo Niche and others.

In the merengue genre we danced with the Chicas del Can, Wilfrido Vargas, Fernandito Villalona, Juan Luis Guerra among others, we did a crazy hour with songs like the meneíto, the juanas, the gorilla dance, and many others, the rumba lasted until 6:00 in the morning. My birthday was on Friday and since the beginning of the year I had already planned it; in short, if you believe it, you will believe it.

On the other hand I am very grateful and very happy because thanks to the kindness that I have harvested throughout my life, (in these days I made a post about it); here I leave you the [link](https://peakd. com/hive-131951/@care1869/initiative-as-cultivate-kindness-initiative-how-do-i-cultivate-kindness) for you to read; I got many congratulations and very good wishes in all ways, I had the honor of receiving many gifts starting with the cake, which my sister-in-law made it for me; my friend, sister in life came loaded like Saint Nicholas, she brought spreads, a bottle of liquor and a special gift for me, accompanied by a delicious chocolate.

Another friend arrived with a case of beer and two bottles of whiskey, my brothers also bought liquor. In general terms, the mega rumba was set up. Saturday was a day to rest and recover the batteries, but on Sunday we again made a sancocho accompanied by three cases of beer to close with a flourish the 53 years of Care, so everyone said between laughter, songs and anecdotes. For all of the above and for all that is yet to come, I want to thank you, thank you, thank you. To all those who were part of the magic of my Birthday. To all those who were part of the magic of my Birthday.