Isn’t it crazy how life works? I fell in love with literature during my adolescent years. I used to be inspired by the likes of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. I fell in love with their great writing skills. I’ve always wanted to live a tranquil life in a very serene environment, be at the highest level of peace within myself, and try my writing skills. Hopefully, I could become someone like those who have inspired me. I started falling in love with visual art, and that made me a very introverted person who observes a lot. Obviously, that’s what art requires. It sucks. This isn’t the lifestyle I pictured for myself while growing up.
All I wanted was to be in my comfort zone and create masterpieces from both literature and visual forms of art. I challenged myself a couple of times, and I see within myself that I have the potential to be a great writer or a painter. It’s crazy how life works. It’s crazy how I don’t get motivated or inspired by the people and things that used to get me motivated. I used to be the best in everything I did. I was the best graduating student in a field where I knew nothing when I started. I used to be very brilliant. I used to be very intelligent.
It’s crazy how I don’t know where all that went. Now, I don’t even know if I can still draw. I think society really has a great impact on a young man while growing up. Now, all I can think of is money! All I can think of is how to turn a thousand into a million because the society we live in today has rendered a young guy without money useless. No one wants to be that young man with zero balance. It’s really tough out here for the youngins. I wouldn’t like to raise my kids in this kind of society.
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