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Grace Kiconco Uganda
Student @ Makerere University Business School
Kampala, Uganda
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In Literature, Writing and Blogging 3 min read
As a joke ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
<p>ย I am looking for a man to help me pull off a prank.</p><p>Not a small prank. Not the kind that lasts an afternoon before everyone laughs and moves on. I mean a grand prank. A ridiculous prank. The kind that becomes folklore.</p><p><br/></p><p>The plan is simple.</p><p>First, we learn a language. Something completely unrelated to our lives. Japanese. Russian. Korean. Or we come up with a language of our own. Anything. We become fluent enough to hold entire conversations in it.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then, as a joke, we pretend to fall in love.๐Ÿ˜‚ Nothing serious, of course.</p><p>Just enough to convince people. We start spending all our time together. We learn each other's habits. We memorize favorite foods and childhood stories. We become each other's first call.</p><p>You know...</p><p>For the prank.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then, still as a joke, we get engaged.๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚</p><p>Again, for the prank.</p><p>A traditional introduction follows. Families meet. Pictures are taken. People cry. Promises are made. All for the joke.</p><p>Naturally, we'd need a wedding. A proper one.</p><p>The kind where people travel from different districts and argue over seating arrangements. The kind where old relatives ask when the babies are coming.</p><p>The kind where everyone believes the story except us.</p><p>Because we're in on the joke.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then we'd build a life together. All as a joke๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚</p><p>A house, perhaps. A dog. Maybe a garden.</p><p>Definitely an inside language that nobody understands.</p><p>Every serious conversation hidden behind foreign words.</p><p>Every argument encrypted.</p><p>Every "I love you" disguised as linguistic research.</p><p>And eventually, because commitment to the bit matters, we'd create tiny relatives.๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚</p><p><br/></p><p>ย Raise them. Love them. Watch them grow. Attend graduations. Celebrate birthdays. Grow old.</p><p>All while speaking our secret language whenever we don't want our small relatives and the rest of the world listening.</p><p><br/></p><p>Meanwhile our friends would spend decades trying to figure it out.๐Ÿ˜‚</p><p>What language is that? What are they saying? Why do they keep laughing? What is the joke?</p><p>And maybe one day, after forty years of marriage and grandchildren running around the house, someone finally cracks the code.</p><p>They'll arrive triumphant.</p><p>"I figured it out!"</p><p>And we'll look at each other from our rocking chairs.</p><p>"Figured out what?"</p><p>"The language!"</p><p><br/></p><p>And after a long silence we'll smile and laugh๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ That they caught us but if they don't then we keep it to ourselves๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚</p><p><br/></p><p>Perhaps one day we'll be old and grey and sitting side by side watching the sunset.</p><p>The world will see a marriage.</p><p>A family.</p><p>A lifetime.</p><p>But we'll know the truth.</p><p>Two idiots took a joke way too far.๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚</p><p>And neither of them ever found a good place to stop.</p><p>So they didn't.</p><p><br/></p><p>The real prank would be spending 70 years building a beautiful life with someone, raising a family, growing old together, and then on your deathbed grabbing everyone's hand and whispering:</p><p>"You all got pranked."๐Ÿ˜‚</p><p>And then refusing to elaborate.</p><p><br/></p><p>Our descendants will spend generations trying to figure out what the prank was while your matching gravestones simply read:</p><p>"Still committed to the bit."</p><p><br/></p><p>๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜ญ</p><p><br/></p><p>Applications are now open.</p><p>โ€‹Requirements:</p><p>โ€‹โ€ข Must be willing to learn a language.ย </p><p>โ€ข Must understand that this prank may last a lifetime.ย </p><p>โ€ข Must be committed to the bit.ย </p><p>โ€ข Must not crack under pressure.ย </p><p>โ€ข Must be comfortable creating evidence that the relationship is real.ย </p><p>โ€ข Death is the only acceptable resignation letter.</p><p>โ€‹Serious applicants only.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>

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