Ten (or so) ways.

10 ways to spend your birthday during the Corona period (with additional honourable mentions).

1. Look for someone who makes you laugh, that you can share anything with, even deep things and have a deep and nonesensical conversation for 3 hours over video call at 12am. It would help if said person is a night owl and you are too. Start your birthday right.

Hon. Mention: Get your favourite, available drink (in my case sprite) and toast with someone or by yourself to the coming year

2.Read all the serious heart felt messages and feel loved and honoured because even if you won't admit it, words of affirmation are your love language

3.Get kachumbari ingredients from your mama mboga so that you can make your favourite cheap food... Smokie pasua...

Hon. Mention: Read the poems that your creative friends wrote you and feel lucky.

4. Bake a cake, ice it yourself and eat the hot mess, but obviously you would not be foolish enough like me to ice it while it's hot right? Then proceed to share with the kids in your estate... Ensure its Corona free cake.

5. Donate your money to someone who  needs it and feel the joy that comes with altruism.

Hon. Mention: Ask your big sister and her friends to tell you stories of themselves when they were 22. Make sure to filter them and listen to only the ones that make you feel like it is normal that you have not began adulting, not the ones of them traveling and enjoying their best lives.

6.Pick up your phone when your friends call you to sing for you and end up talking to them about life in general.

7. Sit down alone, with your journal and notebook, have some quiet time to think about your year that has passed and the year to come.

8. Say yes when you are called out for cake by that friend of yours that always does the most for you on birthdays and end up drinking the popcorn latte you have wanted to drink for 4 months. (Popcorn is not the best topping for coffee just so you know. But it surprises you and you need surprises.)

Hon. Mention: Play guitar and think how much you've improved.

9.Take the long route home and as you walk, think, eat the skittles that were bought for you, enjoy the sun you haven't felt all month.

10.Receive messages from the late arrivals and accept the love... Really appreciate the audios that have been sent and enjoy it all.

Hon. Mention: Eat your gifts, only the edible ones though, and soak it all in, your day, this crazy times and decide to post it all on a blog.


What did you do on your Corona birthday? Do tell...

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