Birthday whispers

I work with an entrepreneur whose birthday is celebrated by his bankers, contractors and beneficiaries. They actually remind him of his birthday by either calling, texting, writing, etc to propose to him how they wish to celebrate his birthday, or they will surprise him on that day with a birthday cake and other presents.

This has taught me that our birthdays will be more valued if we add value to people’s lives. It is good to remember and celebrate ones birthday at will, but birthdays will be more honored if we can help to solve the problems of other people, if we can meet the needs of people, if we can offer solution to puzzling issues, etc.

It will be a wonderful thing if we set our birthdays in motion by working hard to be established, so we can employ people and put food on their tables. On the other hand, those with fat salaries can include the less privileged in their budgets; they can help such people to acquire skills and be useful to themselves and the society.

Those of us with meager salaries are not excluded because giving is not only about money. If we don’t have the capacity to employ people, and we can’t help financially, we can show kindness to people in different other ways, we can encourage the downtrodden, etc. We can help direct such people to be on the right track.

Together, we can fight for a just cause, whichever lawful and godly way we can, to lessen the suffering of people. Those whose lives we have touched positively will never forget to celebrate our birthdays; especially if they succeeded because of us; they will continue to celebrate us even when mother earth has welcomed us into her resting abode.

Happy birthday to me, to Pst Chris Oyakhilome and my other birthday mates; happy belated birthday and happy birthday in advance to all who have celebrated theirs, or are yet to celebrate.

Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi