It is complementary hearing all
the congratulatory messages. I wonder what kind of messages I would get when
the excellent grades are reeled out. Scary as it is people never celebrated my
finishing year 4 in the University. I remember finishing WAEC and walking back
home without even one “Congratulation”. It has made me realize that it is true
when they say the higher you go, the higher the pressure. So I sat in my brown
and cream rugged apartment that night after the events of a yearlong legal
immersion wondering if I had done ALL I was meant to do in Bwari.
I made a long mental list of
friends and acquaintances, material acquisitions, spiritual services, but not
so much memorable pleasures and I had the great relief sigh. I remember my last
post before law school began. It was on my Yola Crisis and all the fears,
thoughts and uncertainties raised. I could have gone there to touch more lives
and had more memorable experiences. But then again, the other items on the list
sure outweigh pleasures and that my dears was the sweetest part of the cookey.
Resolves, restraints and recues, I
lived in Bwari with grace. Never visited Lovitos, slept in Elim once, never
went to Kuchiko, Sundays at HOTR the Refuge were BLASTS for me, CLASFON was
home and super duper great friends I won’t mention before the others I exclude
would petition Google to close this my small space. You know I love lessons and
so the Yola-Bwari Switch thought me one too deep never to throw away. It was
that at all times, you always need a relationship to get to the point you want
to. You can’t have everything but you can have everyone. A snap, a call, a
visit or even a mere check up with that PING!!! Might just be all you need to
move to that next rung of the ladder called life.
Call it what you like:
friendship, acquaintance, love, intimacy, family, boo-ship or bae-ship,
whatever, we are all flesh, blood and bones acting and reacting to the waves,
situations and circumstances of the earth. So whether you hate or love, keep
that someone around you. Whether you like or not, show someone care when you
can and have to. Whether it is true or false, attempt to say hello and if that
is all that comes take a walk. But never spend a day or a decade alone coz you
will stink dirtier than the BOOZE from the gutter. SELAH!!!
