
I was around 18 years old when I first heard about the power of the Brown Envelopes. At that time, I wondered why an ordinary envelope was so popular in meaning and interpretations. Whereas, many other colours exist apart from brown!
This article has nothing to do with Mr or Mrs Brown. Brown envelopes speak to us in volumes of unwritten books. Trust me!
The first popular launch of ‘Brown Envelope” is how journalists are offered bribes to write positive stories or ignore negative ones, using brown envelopes. A cash inducement strategy, often handed over discreetly. Pastors and overzealous religious engagements are also priced and paid in “Brown Envelopes”.
In the UK, brown envelopes function at an entirely different level. It is the most dreaded among all envelopes of colour, delivered through our doors.
Brown Envelopes take a unique stand, where it describe the fear of opening communications from the tax man, benefits scheme, courts, and immigration services.
It’s one thing for an envelope to be brown; it’s another for it to have the King’s Crown at the edge of it. You can only open such envelopes through fasting and earnest prayers.
Brown envelopes have carved out a unique niche in people’s minds. The threat of a brown envelope is very real. Just seeing a brown envelope arrive at your doorpost can send you into a panic mode. Filled with unknown contents, a brown envelope can instantly take away your joy, while some unexpectedly give temporary relief.
People generally assume that brown envelopes' contents are bad news; they just put them off and refuse to open them, even if it's good news. Who cares? In most cases, people with brown envelope syndrome don’t open them at all. Just seeing their name on it alone can send them away from their homes.
I’ve heard of occasions where brown envelopes sent illegal migrants to their untimely graves. It’s always wise to bite the timed BOMB of brown envelopes and read it. But for someone like me, I don’t like reading it at all. I don't like it a bit.
I once refused to open a brown envelope sent from the HMRC, only to discover later that it was a tax refund cheque for over £400 I had refused to open for days. If you want to have peace in your mind, there are some situations you cannot wish away; you just have to confront them, however long or painful, else, it’s like postponing the evil day till another evil day.
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