Have you ever told someone you were born on April fool’s day and you were called a fool? Well, the 1st of April is a day set aside worldwide to fool one another through practical jokes and hoaxes.
Funny, many feel it’s a joke when a person says he/she is born on the 1st of April. People also think those who were born this day should be a Basket Mouth or Alibaba. The worst case is when you are referred to as a fool for being born in the world’s annual dedicated day for fooling one another.
Nigerians won’t forget when it was published on a national tabloid that the national football team would make it to the world cup despite missing out in the qualifiers. Many fell for it. That’s just a bit of pranks made by people on this day.
What is April Fool’s Day?
April Fool’s Day is an annual custom on April 1 consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. The jokester often exposes his action by shouting ‘’April fools’’ at the recipient.
Mass media (television, radio and internet) have been involved in these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day. Although it is not a public holiday in any country except for Odesa in Ukraine, where it is an official city holiday.
Are People Born on April Fool’s Day Fool?
People born on April Fool’s day are one of a kind and others find it difficult to believe they were born this day. Have you ever seen where a man whose wife delivered a baby announced to his friends his wife’s delivery on the 1st of April and they find it hard to believe? That’s how the day is being taken worldwide. It is worse when the child born is seen as a fool.
Although many still feel it’s a joke when they hear people talk about themselves been born on April fool’s day but people born this day aren’t fools. They’ve enjoyed their day more than many other people as it is never a boring day.
Being a fool isn’t associated to any day, it’s just an act of human. One of the theories concerning this day suggests that April 1st only became the fool’s day as a result of Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century collection, ‘The Canterbury Tales’, wherein Chaucer includes a playful reference to ‘’32 March’’, or April 1st. This has made scholars to consider it as a mere copying error. So, it has nothing to do with being a fool because of the day.
It’s another April Fool’s Day in the corner even though the world is in torrid times as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Although many (e.g. Google) are backing out of this year’s April fool’s day because of the pandemic, we cannot but observe this day as it were.
I’m wishing all April Fool’s day celebrant birthday wishes. Do have a beautiful day.
