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Ara Bambi
Builder in Training @ Federal University of Technology, Akure
Builder in Training @ Federal University of Technology, Akure
SACRED THINGS SHAMEFUL THINGS: TO ALL THE THINGS WE COULD HAVE BEEN
<p>Have you ever wondered what we would be like if we were completely different people?</p><p><br/></p><p>Well not different, if we were raised differently.</p><p><br/></p><p>I believe we have infinite versions of ourselves.</p><p><br/></p><p>And by infinite versions I mean possibilities.</p><p><br/></p><p>And those versions are what we would could have been.</p><p><br/></p><p>The versions of ourselves we never met.</p><p><br/></p><p>The versions we never got to see.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I don't mean if my dad was Elon musk or Dangote.</p><p><br/></p><p>Or if I wasn't born a Nigerian.</p><p><br/></p><p>I mean if our parents had brought us up differently.</p><p><br/></p><p>If they had invested and shown interest in our silly dreams.</p><p><br/></p><p>If they had believed us over that stranger.</p><p><br/></p><p>If they had married different people.</p><p><br/></p><p>If they'd raised us in different places.</p><p><br/></p><p>If they hadn't shamed us for doing what we loved.</p><p><br/></p><p>If they hadn't told us to stop writing or drawing because school was more important and writers or artists didn't become successful people in life.</p><p><br/></p><p>If they hadn't influenced or chosen our careers for us because they believed they knew better and studying English was a waste of 5 years.</p><p><br/></p><p>If they hadn't shamed us for our choice of outfits and called us sluts, prostitutes, and rogues.</p><p><br/></p><p>If they hadn't told us to stop singing or listening to music because it was demonic.</p><p><br/></p><p>If they hadn't wrapped our mistakes and our questions around heaven and hell.</p><p><br/></p><p>If they had just allowed their children be children without having to choose how their lives should go.</p><p><br/></p><p>Perhaps from an early age we learnt our needs didn't matter so we never bothered asking for help now we're independent in "nature".</p><p><br/></p><p>Did we abandon our dreams because we lost interest maybe, but it could also be that we got tired of being shamed or beaten just because we had dreams.</p><p><br/></p><p>I wonder how many of us are waking around with the baggage of the talents and interests we never discovered.</p><p><br/></p><p>Or the dreams we no longer remember having.</p><p><br/></p><p>Who would we be if they hadn't killed our creativity and interfered with the process of us becoming our own people?</p><p><br/></p><p>Would we still be the same, just slightly better?</p><p><br/></p><p>Or just the same 🙂.</p>
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