THE BIRTHDAY LIST

  So my birthday is on Monday, January 22^nd. Days back, someone asked me what’s on my birthday list. I said I didn’t have a list and got a reaction that said “You’re an alien.”

  A birthday list is cool. It helps people who don’t know what to get you know what to get you. It kind of makes the job easier. You can do ojukokoro(greed) and add really expensive or hard to get gifts if you are wealthy and expect people to follow what’s on your list alone and share the list around to make sure people get you gifts you want. 

  

  To me, it kind of takes away the spontaneity and
surprise in getting gifts. The essence of receiving gifts is like “Hey, I thought about you and this is from me to you.” It’s coming from the heart and all that mushy stuff. I can understand if you make a birthday wish that friends don’t buy you anything but donate to a cause or some charity.

  Especially here in Nigeria that people throw wedding parties and birthday parties and out of a thousand people that attend, only ten come with gifts. Then they(the ones that didn’t bring gifts) still complain that food isn’t enough or nice, drinks aren’t cold plus they complain about the kind of souvenirs you shared or lack of it. (That thing always shocks me. Lol)

   

  A birthday list is nice in the sense of knowing what you want. Like, if you’re saying a prayer, you don’t just say, “God bless me but God bless me with a new car.” Or something like that. But are humans God? God knows your intentions. A birthday list seems kind of forced. You forcing people to get you this and be cool with it because it’s your birthday then you’ll get pissed if it’s something outside the list.

  People, have different pockets. Your saying get me this and that kinda makes it seem “If you’re my friend and wanna stay in my good books, measure up and get me something on this list else…”

  As usual these are my thoughts. I think you should relax, don’t turn it into a venture and let friends and family surprise you with how they feel about you and what their pockets can reach happily. By all means, do a birthday list if you want.

A lot of thought process goes into buying a gift for someone you like. Receiving the end result of that thought process is always fun and interesting.  No matter how little the gift, it should be appreciated.

  What’s my birthday wish? I should be dead by now, true story. Please, do take some seconds and say a prayer in your heart and ask God for whatever you want for me. Wait, read below.

Gifts are very welcome too. I love surprises and free things I didn’t expect, think of or buy myself. Who no like osho free(free things)?

The birthday list is modern and new school. I like the old school better.

Thank you for reading my thoughts. What are yours?