The Goodies Of My Breakfast Experience

I could recall the feeling of the first time I was served breakfast. 💔The feeling brought out the Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka in me and what did I do next?. I bought higher education (note books) and started writing poems. That was when I discovered.That what you ask? That i can write poems incredibly well! Yes, you heard me right. Breakfast exposed the Poet in me.🤔😎. I wrote on all the pages of note books I got and even bought more. It was not funny at all.

That was when I knew the lyrics to R&B love/ heartbreak songs ever produced.

I was depressed and at a point suicidal, yes it was that bad.(This was prolly the first time my family will be seeing this yo know)

I was an intern with a Radio Station in Ikoyi at the time.

Because I wanted to cry I will alight at Obalende so as to have ample opportunity and time to cry while walking. I did that for like 3months straight up.

I did not care about who was looking, I would cry and be talking to myself on a major road.

Then when I get to the office, I will go to the toilet clean up and put up the usual cheerful appearance, join them in the studio, pretend all was well, till I get home to cry myself to sleep again.

Then one day, I listened to a particular song. It’s not even a Christian song just a nor( a circular song)This is a song that I had listened to countless times but the meaning never registered before now😲. That song gave me 1001 reasons why the person doesn’t worth all the trouble I’m putting myself through.

I was able to survive that ordeal but it took me years,Yes! you heard me right

Y-E-A-R-S.

Years of asking myself what I did wrong?Years of blaming myself for falling so hard and ignoring so many red flags.

Years of …

Now along the line I realized that, why it took that long was because, I didn’t open up to anybody. I bottled up my feelings even my family did not know what I was going through. I put up a cheerful front for all and sundry but deep down I was hurting seriously. Thank God for music🎵🎶🎶 hmm!

Will I ever fall in love again? of course yes! Will I ever get heartbroken like that ? Nah!Over the years I have learnt the act of accepting dealing with issues.

I have learnt that life comes with its own ups and downs.

Bottom line is na everybody go chop breakfast.Your ability to accept, heal and move on makes you a stronger person. It meant to teach you a lesson or two about life and humans. Because once beaten. 1001 shy!