Pockets of Sunshine - by Tioluwani Aina

<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000360548.jpg"/>Its Saturday morning on a random summer break. You're going about enjoying yourself: visiting your friends and favourite cousins, indulging in life's pleasures: both great and small.Major Lazer's "Particula" is thumping from the speakers, your brother is screaming from excitement because the game he's been waiting for since last term has just been bought, there are beelines at the comic stands at the mall cos everyone's busy buying Archie and Supa Strika comics to share at school in the coming term. Finding joy was as accessible as breathing oxygen and it was like these moments should just last forever.Now, it's 2PM on a Tuesday. Your class group chat is debating to cancel or not to cancel a class like they're in Hamlet. The number on the Gmail icon keeps on growing as it is being nourished with your expectations and the work waiting for you inside. These notifications I'm seeing, I hope that company has gotten back to me o? , You think to yourself, I really hope I get that internship because this my oga wants to squeeze my neck!The phone that used to house Subway Surfers and Temple Run has now been rented out by Slack and Google Classroom. You just start to reminisce on those simpler times.You remember how you only wanted to grow up so that you can eat two chickens. I mean, sure, you definitely can now, but, at what cost?<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000360549.jpg"/>It's very easy for the light in one's eyes to grow dim, and worst case, blackout. It may happen so subtly, that they won't know when it will hit them.Bills have to paid therefore, money has to be made and so therefore, work has to be done. The same goes for needing to make distinctions and therefore having to be in class and then gaze those books later.Its quite "wonderful" that such huge stakes are now pegged to these activities and those stakes affect us: not just in the now o, but in the nearest and farther future.Growing up doesn't have to be a death sentence to joy, though. There are always pockets of decisions present with us at all times with joy waiting at the other side.You and your friends could randomly decide to buy water guns, go to an open field and spray yourselves just for the fun of it, you could indulge the cravings of your inner child to do something fun and silly, you could set time aside for that Call of Duty match on your phone or do whatever fun thing that you've been apparently delaying too because the truth is: going through a tough time doesn't automatically translate to starving yourself of vitality especially when you can access it readily!<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000360550.jpg"/>Don't allow the world and its demands to collect your spark from you because if that is done: it could make you harbor and spill bitterness into the vessels that are other people too. It is God's plan for our souls to prosper and be in good health.Vibrancy is your birthright so walk around the earth knowing you have that as your heritage.

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