Up until then, I had always seen birthdays as a milestone to growing up and being more of my own person, I had never considered it a step closer to my mortality. The headmistress tore us to shreds the next morning at assembly! “What’s so great about losing one year of your life?” she demanded. Needless to say, the birthday boy spent the rest of his birthday in hospital. The glass slipped from her hand, landed on the birthday boy’s head, broke and slashed his head open. One friend did not have the plastic bottle people would use and decided to use a soda bottle made of glass. It was my neighbour's birthday and his friends were throwing water on him. Until one day, a near tragedy made us rethink. In our foolish teenage minds, this was a way of celebrating our friends as they turned older. This just meant that we would douse them in water and make them walk home wet and cold. In high school, we had a habit of ‘washing’ our friends when it was their birthdays. So you are getting married, why do you need fireworks? Did the guests come to eat and drink and be merry, or did they come to stare at the sky display? So what if you are having a boy? Is it worth starting a fire with your stupid homemade rockets?Ī long time ago, I learnt a hard lesson that milestones are not such a big deal after all, if you look at them from another perspective. Others change the colour of rivers to show the world the gender of their baby.Īt what point did we stop caring about enjoying the special moments in our lives? At this rate, it doesn't seem like we care about our special moments rather, how much wow factor we can milk out of it. People write in the sky to ask their partners to marry them. Milestones are not just to be celebrated anymore, they are used as platforms to show off our wealth, our creativity and just how far we can push the boundaries between extravagant and obnoxious. More importantly, we want our videos to be seen by millions on social media. We want big, explosive events that will leave guests in awe as people talk about our show-stopping events for years to come. I thought long and hard about this, and I firmly believe that today’s society has led us to what I consider ‘tragic celebrations’. Many hold the bride and groom responsible for the tragedy, others hold the venue owner responsible. The bride and groom survived, but most of their immediate family members died in the tragedy.Ī mass funeral service was held for all those who died, and the whole world wept at the sight of mourners bawling on the coffins of their loved ones. Some of the guests were trapped in the building and died from the fire, others died while receiving medical attention. Videos from survivors showed how the wedding venue caught fire during the bride and groom dance as giant sparklers emitted high sparks into the air.Īccording to reports, some of the materials used to make the venue were highly flammable and the massive fire that erupted consumed the whole building within minutes. Every major news channel around the world covered the story. The news about the wedding travelled far beyond the Middle East. A few weeks ago, a wedding in Iraq caused the death of more than a hundred people.
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