Guys please plan your birthdays. Put all your enery into it. Even if you’re spending it alone. Pick your fav restaurant, reserve yourself a table. Buy yourself a pretty dress/outfit. Put on some make up. Take lots of pics. Stop waiting on someone else to celebrate youhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz">

Mamam wayengumntu wamabongo. Ekhaya we celebrated every. single. thinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😅" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit offenem Mund und Angstschweiß" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit offenem Mund und Angstschweiß">
But my mom ensured birthdays were special from as early as when I was 2. I look at the pictures and my heart smiles. I remember you mama and thank you so much Qhudenihttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz">

My mom ensured I was always on pointhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Lachend auf dem Boden rollen" aria-label="Emoji: Lachend auf dem Boden rollen"> Check F1: Polka dot co-ord https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen">
F2: Paperbag waist jeanshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen">
It’s always been about the clothes, it always will behttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz">

My mum did this right up until I was about 13 in Std 5. Then obvs in high school I’d want the money and go shopping and or organise a “sleepover” with my friends. Varsity we’d obviously get wastedhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😅" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit offenem Mund und Angstschweiß" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit offenem Mund und Angstschweiß">
Decided to go back to the birthday traditions when I started working...

Year 25.
Booked myself a week away to Cape Town, was the first time I went without my family. Served looks at a random guy at Beerhouse bought me a tray of Tequilas and said he wanted to take care of mehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Lachend auf dem Boden rollen" aria-label="Emoji: Lachend auf dem Boden rollen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz">

Year 26
Booked a couple of rooms with my friends at a game lodge and we had a ballhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Lachend auf dem Boden rollen" aria-label="Emoji: Lachend auf dem Boden rollen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz">

Year 27
Booked myself a weekend away to Joburg. Did all the young people’s touristy things. I wore all white, all weekend, because ndindimhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Lachend auf dem Boden rollen" aria-label="Emoji: Lachend auf dem Boden rollen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Lachend auf dem Boden rollen" aria-label="Emoji: Lachend auf dem Boden rollen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Lachend auf dem Boden rollen" aria-label="Emoji: Lachend auf dem Boden rollen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Lachend auf dem Boden rollen" aria-label="Emoji: Lachend auf dem Boden rollen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz">

Year 28
Organised a little getaway to the Dirty East, oooh boy did we get wasted this weekend. Was absolutely amazinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz">

Year 29
Worst year of my life. Was living in Joburg without a job, slowly slipping into depression. My mom asked me what I wanted to do and I said nothing, except money to apply for Law Schoolhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏🏾" title="Folded hands (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)"> Zintl then suprised me with cake and VIP tickets to the Spring Fiestahttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer">

Year 30
It was my first year of Law School in my dream city and my mom was paying for everything. So that was way more than enough as a gift!
In addition, she gave a wad of cash and said I should book my girls and I a fire weekend in Port Alfred or...

Take the trip to Thailand I have always been talking about. Instead I took the money and bought myself a phone and went shoppinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😅" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit offenem Mund und Angstschweiß" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit offenem Mund und Angstschweiß">
Then got to my flat spent, drank champers and passed out. That’s when I knew I was oldhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Lachend auf dem Boden rollen" aria-label="Emoji: Lachend auf dem Boden rollen">

I also posted my TBT birthday pictures on FB. Thanking my mom for everything, it was if I knew it was my last birthday with her around. I’m glad I celebrated her on that particular birthday

Year 31
Booked a girls weekend to St Francis. Bestest weekend everrrr