She uses a car!


My dear human, the world is not interested in knowing how you ended up at a particular venue; party, meeting, church, funeral.

One day, I went to a school religious ceremony. Our kind find it so hard to respect time, so instead of starting the function at 9:00am as indicated in our invitation letters, the function started after 11:00am. You can imagine all the hunger in the world for a few of us who were at the venue by 8:00am. We yearned until our jaws ached, lips cracked, so dry you would imagine some chalk had been painted on them; some of us looked sick all of a sudden, headache hit us. And you know, the headache caused by hunger does not leave one immediately even after consuming food. It takes a bit of time. No medicine besides food cools it even a little; keep your stashed pain relief aside for another day. Others got so irritable, one word and they would just flare up. 

Anyways what this particular woman I knew nothing about did, was to turn to me, smile and lament about the poor timekeeping. Then she went like; “I think I should drive back and have some breakfast, I left in a terrible hurry…” Honestly who really wants to know how you came here, whether you walked, ran, biked, jumped on a Bajaj, tractor, Harrier, whatever…you are here. If you are this kind of people, this is how you phrase such a sentence, “…I need to go back home and have some breakfast…”

Through the eyes of AYENYO Joanita

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