So I was born in December 31 the very last day of the year, which meant receiving only one gift during this holiday season. Every year since I was a teenager, my friends wouldn't come to my B-day because it was new year's eve and they had better parties to go than mine which it was their defense arguments but I never hold it against them. Only family members would come to my birthday and by the way I don't think they had much of a choice.
Now everything changed since I moved to another continent, I don't celebrate much my birthday even though I did come with my brother we don't celebrate my bday together.
My first bday in Lisbon I was sharing a house with four girls and two of them went spending the new year's eve with their friends and the other two girls stayed home with me because we were broke, had no money not even to buy a cake or champagne... So almost to midnight and the front door neighbors knocks at our door and call us to make a toast and eat cake with them which I thought was very kind and generous of them, and when my friends and I thought our lucy changed others mysterious forces in this scenario I will call it Destiny didn't think so, when me and the girls were leaving the house in such hurry to go celebrate new year's eve at our neighbor's house, we forgot to take the keys off inside the door and let the door close. It was the only key with had with us and the other two girls that weren't home had another two keys but they refused to shortened their celebratory night just because of our misfortune so anyways we didn't let that be a buzz kill and went to ours neighbors house where we ate a lot of chocolate cake and drink champagne and one of my friends notice that the kitchen windows of our house was open and it was very close to the window of ours neighbors but none of us had the guts to jump from one window to another because we're at a second floor building it was a bit high for us, so we called a guy friend of ours who happened to be a soccer player but this information in not relevant to the story. The destiny smiled again and this friend happened to be near the neighborhood and came help us... It took a lot of begging and maybe a bribe but eventually he did jumped from windows and opened the door for us making my first birthday a roller coaster of emotions... Starting the day sad and depressed because we had no money to do anything at all to happy because a neighbor was very kind with us to sad again because we locked ourselves out of the house to happy again because I realised that had really great friends.
Moral of the story is with thru friends you don't need much to have fun and enjoy every little moment together plus before getting out of the house make sure you have your keys in your HANDS.
The following year I spend at home and this time alone with a bottle of champagne and watching TV, it wasn't that bad I so fireworks from my bedroom window.
I am not a superstitious person but I should have seen the sign when I was trying to get out of the house and saw a black cat was at the door blocking me from leaving the building which for me was creepy because I don't like cats at all but that didn't stop me, oh no I went out anyway because I was so determined to have a good birthday this year... So back to the story where I left off... I couldn't get out of the station because well first it was freezing like hell outside and there were no taxis or buses and I couldn't go home walking because my house was extremely far away from where I was and couldn't get there without transport. It was kind of ironic because I was in the subway station because I was going to see one of the two girls that spend my first bday in Lisbon with me. We planned to go see the fireworks at downtown Lisbon together but unfortunately I didn't get there in time and so I went home with another failed bday and It didn't stopped there the bad luck. My brother made sure I wouldn't never forget that day because I had to leave the house in a 4 degree celsius extremely cold weather at dawn because he got alcohol poisoning at the party he went thit his girlfriend. We spend the day at ER because he was unconscious and scared the hell out of me but after a couple hours in serum he recovered just fine. I knew he drank a lot but I didn't knew it was that much, so I guess new year's eve parties is where people drink until there is no more last year{it's a inside joke}.
Moral of the story is when planning to go somewhere during new year's eve make sure you know the night schedule of every transport you are going to use or at least have more than one way to get there. Plus just because is the last day of the year doesn't mean you have to drink until you die, it's just an expression you don't have to actually do it nobody is challenging you so drink but with moderation, you don't want your loved ones first day of the year becoming a funeral.
After this disastrous bday, the following year which was last year I went on a december vacation with my brother back to our country, back to Angola to visit our family.
So this actually was good birthday, a couple of family members and some friends came too and I enjoyed very much, it was fun. It made me realised that {I don't know which "forces" are to toying with me} I only have a good birthday if is with my family or else everything that can possible go wrong with my day it will go wrong.
Well moral of the story is don't ditch your family in new year's eve, if you can actually see them then go see them.
I want to end this post with a positive quote and also tell you guys even after so many disastrous birthday I still very much wait every year for my Bday because I love so much december and I have so many memories from my childhood to teenage years birthdays that more than enough make up this past fews not so good ones.
"The value of things is not in the time they last, but in the intensity with which they occur. So there are unforgettable moments, inexplicable things and incomparable people" - Fernando Pessoa
Sincerely Yours, Francis
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