All these while, I've been thinking I'm a human whose life isn't full of surprises, but I was wrong, "So, after all, I'm not a spoon." Yeah!! I'm a human, and I've felt what others have been feeling, which is the intense joy of being surprised on a birthday.
Now, back forward to when it all started: a few days before my birthday this year, I wasn't feeling alright; I can't describe what I was feeling at the moment because it is indescribable. Later that evening my friend called me and asked about the plans I have for my birthday, being someone who doesn't have plans set, I went further to tell her that "I don't have any plans" and the only plan I have to wake up that morning and be appreciative for the year that would lead to an increase in my age.
She exclaimed "Why not go for a photo session and get nice pictures" Now this sounded stressful to me so I just pretended and waved it off, a day before my birthday, I sat down on the couch and the things my friend had advised me of started roaming through my head, then some questions popped in my mind and was like "you haven't had a photo session before?" Why not try it? It won't be bad? Then I went further to conclude "at least to gain the experience".
So I seconded it immediately and decided to go for the photo session, the whole session was full of new experiences after everything was done, I sent the pictures to some of my favorite people and they were all shocked that I could do a thing like that and in all "they were very proud of me" for doing that.
On getting to my birthday, I woke up in the morning with a wide smile on my face, then my big sister came to me and showered me with some words that almost made me cry but as a strong girl who doesn't cry "well I cried" then I prepared myself for work, I got to the office that morning, felt like no one noticed it was my birthday but then I've been announcing it like a newscaster with a big microphone and yet no one noticed, at that moment I started feeling bad and sad at the same time.
So I stayed a little longer to see if someone would just magically knock at the door of my office and say "Tari happy birthday" Unfortunately nothing like that happened that bright morning, after a while, I took my mind off that thought and was just focused on my tasks for the day, the moment I developed the focus was when I heard a knock on the door and was opened, people started walking in and singing "happy birthday to you!!!" with some goodies in their hands, immediately I became teary "yeah I know I said I was a strong girl" it got to a point I couldn't hold the tears anymore, so the tears did the needful and started rolling down my eyes.
My colleagues stood in front of me and were singing and cheering, then they prayed for me and put a knife in my cake. "Wow, just wow." I held the knife and was feeling all happy. "If there was any other word to describe it," So I cut my cake, and we popped the wine and cheered to amazing more years for me. Now that was the joyous moment of my life.
Thought that was the end of surprises for the day, so after the close of work my aunty called me on my phone and asked for a portion of the cake I got from my colleagues, told her I was gonna bring her a portion, and when I got to her house she wasn't present at the moment, I have to sit and wait. After waiting for some minutes, she came into the house holding a pack of something "I didn't know what it was" then she stretched her hand towards me and was like "Tari happy birthday" Immediately I couldn't utter a word because I wasn't expecting anything from her, when I opened it, lo and behold it was cupcakes from my favorite cake vendor with my photos on it. Immediately I screamed and ran to hug her.
And it didn't end there, I started getting credit alerts from different people, I'm gonna say that this was the most memorable birthday I've ever had, it unfolded another level of joy in me, the joy of feeling loved by others and experiencing something new. I went to bed that day with a wide broad smile on my face
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