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I had one of the best birthday celebrations yesterday. I had just a few family and friends come over so Im not exactly sure why this celebration some how seemed to beat all the others including my more exotic ones. I could put it down to the maturity and wisdom that age brings that allows one to see and appreciate the small things of life that makes one whole. Children coming home to celebrate mommys birthday. Kids running around and being kids, seeing and having two premature kids I held in my hands when they were just so tiny that I feared they would get lost in my arms, now so grown, full of life and even more adorable. Mending bridges and realizing that life is too short not to love and be loved, to eschew anger and make joy the centerpiece of your existence. Or could it be waking up to birthday wishes from classmates with uploaded pictures of my times with them, the and the outpouring of love exemplified even more by the huge platter of nkwobi specially hand delivered by my friend Ijays hubby or being tickled while once again I harassed one of us into throwing her hands in the air and saying Ive had enough of this Uche. Nothing I do satisfies her! Or maybe it is the joy I derived from harassing all my Facebook friends into wishing me a Happy birthday even though they would have wished me happy birthday anyway but being the crazy Shirley Kach they all know I just had to enjoy the look of horror on their faces when they realized she may just be crazy enough to delete us and then we will miss out on her tid bits, warped sense of humor and sporadic craziness and how boring life on FB would be. Or my jumping and dodging all the attempts to drown me with Christ love and God blessings. Phew! That one was something else or maybe it is the laughs Ill get from making miserable the lives of those who were so caught up in their daily activities yesterday that they failed to log into Facebook to see it was my birthday and write on my wall. Or was it the prank call when by 10.56am I had nor heard from my mom, I then called her to wish her a happy birthday and she first wondered if I had finally lost it before she caught the joke. Or maybe again it is the special feeling resulting from calls from friends whom I had not heard from for sometime and did not expect to pick up the phone and call or my sisters and their kids singing happy birthday with the horrible voices of my sisters drowning out the sweet melodious ones of the kids and me thinking that after now they will say it is Uche that has a horrible voice. Or Mazi Njoku spending the whole day in front of the grill making sure that everyone had some of his famous char grilled chicken while I sat with Joan Rivers laughing my head off at her crazy jokes and wishing I was bold enough to live my life like her- uninhibited by societal norms and the mumbo-jumbo that is peoples expectation of you. Where before where I spent my birthday in solitude would have mattered more, this time the presence of family, friends and the aura of love all around me made for one of the best birthday celebrations ever. To each and every one of you who contributed one way or the other towards making it a special day I say a big thank you. This includes those who did not call or write on my wall. No I wont delete and block you - too easy- but rest assured that Ill make your lifes miserable the quintessential Shirley Kach way until my next birthday.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:36:40 +0000

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