Public Wishlists and Criticisms
“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”
Sounds like something an uppity person said with a sneer in 1628 in Scotland while looking down their at some poor bloke.
LOL, anyhoo, it’s 2023, and I can imagine their absolute horror that ‘beggars’ now indeed do ride – not horses but cars and private jets – and are choosy even. It is tasteful now in several ways, including wishlists.
Wish lists? Yes, they are a list of things (or experiences) a person wants for a birthday, Christmas, new milestone, or whatever. It does not have to be a special occasion.
These wishes can be granted by one’s self, family, friends, strangers on the internet, or anonymous persons. Now, I do not know about other Twitter niches, but on +234 Twitter, wish lists are quite notorious.
Why are these seemingly lighthearted lists of desires fire starters? Well, there are several reasons or arguments:
- They should be private, not public;
- The same condescension of the 1628 upperclassman albeit this time, not from upperclassmen;
- Have some shame, as they say;
- Simply dunking on someone seemingly beneath them;
- People are upset at the thought of working extra hard to afford certain things while others get it by putting a list on the internet;
- Some would like to do the same, but as they can’t for whatever reasons, they lash out at the object;
- It could be something as simple as not wanting others to have nice things because you don’t have them; or
- How dare they have the guts to ask for things we assume they (or their parents) cannot afford.
My opinion is to unlook and block such handles if they cause one much distress or irritation and that they are mostly not beggarly.
Anyhoo, what do I know? Allow me to plug my birthday wish list into this long essay.
