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Edder
Student @ University of Abuja
Student @ University of Abuja
THE ROAD DOESN’T WAIT.....
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sometimes I look at people going about their day and wonder what their minds must be saying while their bodies keep moving.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">These men sit on their motorcycles for hours, moving from one place to another, carrying passengers, chasing another trip, another payment, another reason to keep the engine running.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Maybe one of them is thinking about the money he has made today.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Maybe another is calculating what will remain after fuel.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Maybe someone is thinking about a child waiting at home, a landlord waiting for rent, or a debt that has refused to disappear.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">And maybe, for a few minutes, none of them is thinking about anything at all.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Just riding.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">The strange thing about life is that from a distance, everyone looks like they are simply going somewhere.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">We don't see the worries sitting behind their eyes.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">We don't see the tiredness beneath their clothes.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">We don't see how many times someone has wanted to stop but remembered that stopping was never an option.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">The motorcycles keep moving.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">The road keeps stretching.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">And somehow, so do we.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Perhaps that is why life sometimes feels like a journey nobody fully understands. We wake up, carry whatever is on our minds, and move again.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Not because the road has become easier.</p><p style="text-align: justify; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>But because life doesn't always wait for you to be ready before asking you to continue.</strong></p>
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