Living in Lagos will make you believe everything is a rush and must happen now now. Any true Lagosian walks around thinking they can’t take a break or their life would crash and everything they’ve worked for would turn to dust.
I used to believe this too. It just felt like I had 10k things to do, and if I didn’t get everything done by a particular time, my world would implode. So one day, I gave up. I legit just packed everything and went outside, because if capitalism thinks it’s found another minion in me, it has another thing coming.
Which got me thinking, nothing in this life is ever that deep.
Okay, let’s not lie, some things are actually very deep. Like if I don’t get Beyonce tickets or I get kicked out of someone’s Apple Music Family Plan in this era of Meffy and his ill-mannered decisions, I’ll have to fight somebody. But things like late deliveries, work emails that won’t stop popping up like your annoying ex, and aforementioned annoying ex? Yeah, they aren’t as deep as you think, trust me.
They might feel like they are, but I promise, the deliveries will come, an hour away from those work emails won’t kill anyone, and you can tell your annoying ex to geddifok when you’re done taking a brief break from actively participating in life.
After life and capitalism showed me shege pro max, a long ass walk, some delusional words of affirmation, and a nap were all I needed to refresh.
Because believe it or not, sometimes, you need to take a step back. Take a break from all the batshit crazy things and just exist.
You’ll be existing in the middle of the chaos. But if you shut your eyes real tight and recite the lyrics to Davido’s Unavailable
…you’ll become like John Cena. Nobody will bring themselves and their problems around you for at least two hours, even your own problems will disappear. Try it. I did, and between the joy I got from listening to Davido’s voice and the computer village dance moves I burst out, all of life’s problems disintegrated into thin air.
It worked abi?
Sometimes, all you have to do is unsubscribe for a while, take a walk, grab brunch, listen to music. Just take a break, and smell the roses — literal or figurative, plastic or real.
You only get one chance at life, but what good is life if you’re so stressed about everything that you aren’t actually living.
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