Celebrate your life.

Ok now I’ve seen a lot of people posting things like, “Did you know you can fly from London to New York without posting it on Facebook and you land safely?”, “Did you know that you can eat a full dish of chicken wings without sharing food pics on social media?”, and all that crap they say. Yes. We know. But do you also know that it is never your business? If you did not know, now you know.

Friends, do not let nobody tell you what you can, and what you cannot celebrate. Celebrate everything. Celebrate being on a plane to somewhere. Share those pics from when you on the airport, in the terminal, on the stairs and when you are seated inside the plane. After all not everybody gets on a plane.

Celebrate getting a job after searching for so long. If possible, share pics of your contract. Yes, you can also celebrate a job promotion. It do not matter which job it is. As long as it does not break the law, and it puts food on your table, celebrate it man. Take pics in office, or in the field or anywhere. Share them on social media with the caption, “Talk to me later, I’m at work right now.” You can even tag me. I will like, or double-tap it.

Celebrate getting a healthy bouncing baby. Many women die in labour, a lot of them get miscarriages, others have had numerous failed attempts at conceiving. But you got that baby. Celebrate. Take lots of pics, you gotta keep those memories, share them on social media, even when some babies look nothing but just potatoes (lol... sorry), and be thankful to God.

Yes, celebrate getting into a relationship. In a world where hate is almost the order of the day, love should be celebrated. Share those cute pics with your boo or bae or baeboo (these days it’s acceptable). We will be happy for you and wish you the very best.

My friends in the arts, drama and sciences, celebrate getting that role you auditioned for, celebrate getting signed to a record label, and releasing your first record after working so hard to get studio time. My friends in the modelling business, celebrate finally being published in a magazine, or on a billboard, or first catwalk on a runway, after starving yourself and doing numerous exercises to get that perfect body. If you earned it, it is worth celebrating. In addition, celebrations should be made public, so that others can get inspired to pursue the same, or do better.

Celebrate after finally getting that car, whether it is a monster machine that turns heads wherever you pass, or just a little thing on four tyres, it is yours, and you earned it. Celebrate it because you will not have to go through the excruciating feeling of sitting next to a person that smells as if they have not showered in a lifetime, on a Monday morning. You will just drive yourself to wherever.

And if your life is like mine, boring, with nothing big going on in your life to celebrate, except just sitting in front of a laptop to write stuff like this, celebrate life. Celebrate just being alive. Life is too short not to celebrate what you have achieved.