Phương Hoàng Hamilton: Birthday

Happy birthday to me

I was born on the full moon day of the Year of the Monkey, 1956.

Before the full moon day, my mother told me that she was in labor for 3 days before giving birth to me. My father also told my mother to try to avoid the full moon day because baby who was giving birth on the full moon day is very difficult to raise. Wow, there's also superstition. But how did you control when the baby comes out of the mother's womb? As a result, the exact time I was born was 11:30 on the full moon night. Maybe it was too painful to give birth to me, so often when I heard my mother scolding me, I felt sorry for myself that she hated me for causing her pain for 3 days.

I didn't know if it's true as my father predicted, "babies born on the full moon day are difficult to raise...?" But my mother said I'm prone to colds, coughs, fevers, stomachaches...maybe small children are the same, because when raising children I realized that babies are weak and susceptible to illness, only to get stronger and stronger and less sickness from 5 years old or more.

Every year, the full moon day of the fourth month according to the lunar calendar coincides with the solar calendar, which is a different date. This year, the full moon day according to the lunar calendar is Wednesday, May 22, 2024. This year the full moon has a beautiful red flower moon photo. . Thank you parents for giving birth to me. They are two young people with nothing but gave birth to me and that love continued for 30 years until they were apart when my father passed away from this world in 1985.

After my father passed away, my mother recited Buddhist scriptures every day until the day she reunited with her father in heaven in 2010. "Reunite" was what I said, but thinking deeply, I didn't know if Heaven was vast and would meet anyone. Or is it just a dream while people are still living in this world?

Thank you parents for giving birth to me and taking care of me carefully all my life.

Pray to the Buddhas of the ten directions to bless your parents with peace in heaven.

Mừng sinh nhật mình

Tôi sanh ra vào ngày rằm năm Bính thân 1956.

Trước ngày trăng rằm má tôi kể lại bà đã chuyển bụng 3 ngày mới sanh ra tôi. Mà ba tôi còn nói với má tôi là ráng tránh ngày rằm vì đẻ con ngày rằm khó nuôi lắm. Ui da còn có tin dị đoan nữa. Mà làm sao mà điều khiển em bé chui ra khỏi bụng mẹ lúc nào. Kết quả đúng giờ tôi ra đời là 11:30 đêm rằm. Có lẽ quá đau mới sanh được tôi nên nhiều khi nghe má la mắng um xùm tôi cứ tủi thân là má ghét mình đã làm má đau 3 ngày.

Không biết có đúng như ba tôi dự đoán “em bé sanh vào ngày rằm khó nuôi...?” mà má tôi nói tôi dể bị cảm mạo, ho hen, nóng sốt, đau bụng...có lẽ trẻ con nhỏ giống nhau, vì khi nuôi con tôi nhận ra các em bé đều yếu ớt dể bị đau ốm chỉ khoẻ hơn và ít đau lặc vặc từ 5 tổi trở lên.

Mỗi năm ngày rằm tháng tư theo âm lịch trùng với ngày dương lịch là ngày khác nhau, Năm nay ngày rằm năm theo lịch mặt trăng là ngày Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Năm nay trăng tròn tháng tư có tấm ảnh trên internet, the flower moon đỏ thật đẹp. Tạ ơn ba má đã sinh ra tôi. Hai ngài là hai người trẻ tuổi trắng tay vẫn sinh ra tôi và tình yêu đó nối tiếp 30 năm hai người mới xa nhau khi ba tôi từ giã cõi đời này 1985.

Sau khi ba tôi mất má tôi mỗi ngày tụng kinh niệm Phật cho tới ngày má sum họp với ba trên trời 2010. “Sum họp” là tôi nói, còn nghĩ sâu xa thì tôi không biết thiên đường bao la có ai gặp được ai hay chỉ là chuyện mơ tưởng khi người ta còn sống trên thế gian ta bà này.

Tạ ơn ba má đã sanh ra con và chăm sóc nuôi nấng cẩn thận con cả đời.

Cầu nguyện chư Phật mười phương gia hộ cho cha mẹ được an lành trong cõi thiên đường.

Tạ ơn tất cả.