"There is one in every family", I grew up hearing this word but I never believed there is a party pooper in my family. The love I see my parents share with their siblings always makes me feel happy and I always try to extend the kind of love I grew up with to my extended family but it's a pity that no matter how much you love someone, you can't force them to feel the same way about you. I have an uncle who until now I don't understand why he do act the way he does. I can't believe why on earth a man is a sadist and finds it difficult to be happy when everyone in the family is rejoicing and having a good time.
There is a tradition in my family where we all gather for Thanksgiving every end of the year to celebrate but once in a while, we do gather together just to hang out and party. This is one of the ways to rebound and share good times as a family since we all live in the same geographical area. Anytime we have such an event, everyone is always happy because even though we live in the same state, we don't see one another often. In October, my dad organized a get-together to which he invited everyone in my extended family who live in the same state as we do. We decided to chill out at Domino Pizza and Cold Stone which is located at the Kwara mall.
Everyone about seventeen of us went in to have fun and my uncle stood outside by his car, we were all wondering what was with him. His daughter and wife were just hissing where they were sitting, I guess they knew him to be like that. We were all having a good time with a cup of ice cream each and a family big-size pizza for each table yet he didn't come in to join us. His elder brother, who is my eldest uncle got angry and stormed out to call him in but he declined. He came back in and started a discussion, directing his words to his wife.
"Does Christ preach against socializing?", that was his first question, and every one of us was surprised, his wife couldn't respond but I could read in her eyes that she was disappointed. "Why is he always acting as if he is the only one born into Christianity? That is bullshit and I've decided to let him be, I wouldn't want him to ruin this fun moment for us", he concluded. His wife and children were angry at how he behaved that day and everybody felt a pinch of his reaction. My dad went out to have a word with him and I followed because I was doing something on my phone that I needed a strong network, it was then I was privileged to listen to their conversation.
"Why didn't you come in?", my dad asked, "everyone is having a great time and you are here standing alone",/he further said. "You know I don't like such gatherings, I don't find pleasure in going to public places, why doesn't Big Brother understand that?" he replied. "He can't understand because he believes in a family, since we call this outing, everyone should participate" my dad answered him. "This one time doesn't make you less, we've always had it at our various homes but this time, we decided to change how we do it just to make the children happy", my dad continued.
He is such an obstinate man, with the extent of my dad's persuasion, he didn't give in to the idea of joining us inside. This attitude of his ruined the mood of his wife and children. "I will wait here till you all are done", he said to my dad and immediately, my dad left him outside to join us. After a while, I went in too and I saw others murmuring, everyone was pissed off, no one expected such an act from him. "He refuses to come in", my dad said to my eldest uncle, "no one needs him in, just let him be", he replied out of annoyance. I kept wondering, trying to figure out what his reason for not joining us was.
"Is he shy?", I asked my sister, I guess she was also in an off mood, she gave a loud hiss and replied, "he intentionally wanted to ruin the joyous moment, can't he be happy for once?". "He always creates a scene at every party, everyone now knows him as a party popper, and he will always have one or two reasons to be sad", she concluded angrily. I sighed and nodded my head in disappointment, we couldn't enjoy ourselves as we had planned. After a while, my eldest uncle signaled for us all to get going, we stood up and matched out one after the other. His wife worked angrily to the car and said to him, "Take us home please, you've done enough already".
We were to head to my eldest uncle's house but we could no longer make it because no one was willing to go as the good energy we had for the get-together had been shattered by the party popper. We departed to our various homes and kept talking about how the outing turned out for days, there is one in every family, I now believe.
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