BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS: A SILENT KILLER OF OUR SOCIETY
Every year we become older by a year, our age increases by 1. This increase has nothing to do with us, it has been predestined (that is if you believe in destiny). We did not work to get older, we did not choose to get older...we just get older. The Bible said, "And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life?" (Matthew 6:28 RSV).
Birthday is simply the day people pour praises on you and give you gifts for doing absolutely nothing. That's probably why this current generation cannot wait for their birthdays to come because to most of them, they get to receive love and gifts. What a lazy way of thinking!
Birthday celebrations have done more harm than good in the upbringing of our children. Today's average child do not value academic excellence or uprightness or hard work because these do not attract much reward like the day you get to be +1. Most children grew up with this mentality that this is the day everything gets handed to them on a plater of gold.
In our society, relationships have ended abruptly because couples were unable to make that day as memorable as the celebrant would have liked. While in school, I saw guys borrowing money just to host a crowd that barely knows them. Girls soliciting for money from different source and sending out invites to everyone hoping to get a good gift in return.
If only we could celebrate excellence, that we actually worked for, as much as we celebrate birthdays, that we had no control over, our society would be a much better place.
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