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BIRTHDAYS 🎉🎊🎂🎈🎁



I always get this anxiety with birthdays especially when mine is around the corner. I'm usually anxious about what's going to happen on the day, the planning, the cake, the party (if I have any), the presents (if I get any 😁), the numerous wishes I might have to respond to from people I don't know on Facebook 😒, the fake love everywhere, the people I haven't spoken to in a year but speak to me on that day just because it's "my day". It's all somehow overwhelming. I get really tired and bored on my birthdays because I really can't deal with this stress all in one day every single year 😣. I know this year would be different though, not because the fake love or the once in a year messages wouldn't come but because I would write a blog post about what I think about birthdays 😂. 

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 The way birthdays are so important, you would think by now there would be some law or declaration that everyone would get a holiday on their birthday each year. Like if it's on a weekday, you get a leave from work or school and if it's on a weekend, the Monday of the next week would be the holiday. But no, we still have to go about our lives as normal and possibly have a celebration of some sort to make the day different from the rest days in the year 😩.
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My qualms with birthdays would have to be the same I have with Valentine's. The fact that we have to wait for one day of the year to show a person how much we love them (no matter how unreal that love might actually be 😏). We can always throw random get-togethers as many times as we want to; buy ourselves gifts as many times as we can afford to; buy a cake and take beautiful pictures as much as we would like. Why wait for just one day of the year and build the suspense and anxiety? why not live every day in celebration of your birth?

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For me, every day should be a celebration of birth and like we do on our birthdays, we can have parties and get-togethers as many times as we want and can afford to 😄 and appreciate each other as much as we feel like. We never have to wait. We should never have to wait. Every day should be a celebration of birth. Every day should be a happy 'birth day'.


Comments

Tega Odjugo said…
Oh well, me i want to party on my birthday joor, i will reflect a day after😁
8 November 2018 at 03:33
Unknown said…
I concur with you oooooo bro,i must celebrate ooooo
8 November 2018 at 13:10
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