I've unintentionally made the decision to let my birthday last the entire week. The last time I had such an amazing birth week experience was my 20th birthday when my coursemates called me the "Birthday girl" for 7 days straight and kept my picture as the group icon for that entire period.
I hear there are cultures where they celebrate weddings for 7 days until the actual day of the wedding. I read a novel a few weeks ago where the author mentioned certain activities like hiking, camping and other traditional activities that the families of both the bride and groom would have to take part in before the wedding.
The essence of these activities is basically to give both families a chance to get to know each other and help the couple build a proper family knowing that both their families are familiar with each other. I liked the idea of it.
That's probably going to be impossible and necessarily expensive in a Nigerian setting, however, I can have a similar experience every year by having an amazing time with the different factions of my friends every day for the next few days.
I have a lot of friends and people who consider me friends, so getting them all at the same place at the same time is going to be pretty hard. Until I can comfortably invite them all to my wedding, I'll make do by hanging out with them on different days for the next couple of days.
For today, I hung out with my friend Ezekiel and a karaoke bar and we had a lot of fun. Tomorrow, I have another agenda with my female friends. The day after I might rest or travel to a different location and have a night out with family over there.
I don't have the week planned. However, I know I'll be having different activities with different people this week and I'll most probably be drinking a little too much alcohol because why not?
Are you a birthday person? Or do you prefer to sober reflect and think about your next 1 year?
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