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Ara Bambi Nigeria Builder in Training @ Federal University of Technology, Akure
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THE SELKIE PALAVER
<p>It's my birthday today and I want a selkie dress😭😭😭.</p><p><br/></p><p>I'm going to get no matter how much it costs😭😭😭.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I'm going to wear it to school.</p><p><br/></p><p>Imagine this, a busy Monday.</p><p><br/></p><p>Everyone walking serious faced.</p><p><br/></p><p>Corporate dresses, blouses, shirts and trousers.</p><p><br/></p><p>Loafers.</p><p><br/></p><p>Totesbag.</p><p><br/></p><p>Going about their day.</p><p><br/></p><p>And me pulling up for my building 201 class in a selkie dress.</p><p><br/></p><p>Looking like something that just waltzed out of the enchanted forest.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sleeves doing their thing.</p><p><br/></p><p>Corset doing theirs.</p><p><br/></p><p>And a ridiculous unnecessary amount of fabric trailing behind me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Class rep kilo woyi???</p><p><br/></p><p>My coursemates will surely ask.</p><p><br/></p><p>Aso, I'd surely reply.</p><p><br/></p><p>Why? They'd ask.</p><p><br/></p><p>Stupid questions sha.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because I can.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because I wanted to.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I have free will 😭🌚.</p><p><br/></p><p>Apparently we're supposed to spend our entire lives worrying about whether what we do makes sense to other people.</p><p><br/></p><p>We take the joy out of living.</p><p><br/></p><p>They often tell me I'm walking around undiagnosed 😭😭😭😭.</p><p><br/></p><p>I know and I prefer it that way.</p><p><br/></p><p>Normal is boring.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes I want to walk into a Monday lecture looking like I missed my way to my a fairy's meeting and landed in the university 😭😭😭.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes I want bundles of fabric that serve no purpose other than making my dress dramatic.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes I simply want to be different..</p><p><br/></p><p>To be weird.</p><p><br/></p><p>To stick out like a sore thumb.</p><p><br/></p><p>I want to is reason enough.</p><p><br/></p><p>You know why?</p><p><br/></p><p>Because I'm Arabambi OMO TI O COMMON.</p><p><br/></p><p>Life is painfully ordinary so why not make the best out if it.</p><p><br/></p><p>We spend so much of our time overthinking imaginary audiences.</p><p><br/></p><p>What would people say?</p><p><br/></p><p>What would people think?</p><p><br/></p><p>Isn't that childish?</p><p><br/></p><p>At your age?</p><p><br/></p><p>People wey no get EDINBURGH MAIDEN DRESS?????</p><p><br/></p><p>I refuse to believe growing up has to be boring.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because there's so much I can make out of life.</p><p><br/></p><p>Anyways happy birthday to me.</p><p><br/></p><p>I'm 18 now so y'all should treat me like a baby adult because that's what I am🌚.</p><p><br/></p><p>I also am making a massive princess dress.</p><p><br/></p><p>And wearing it to class.</p><p><br/></p><p>Why?</p><p><br/></p><p>Because I have free will ,my mummy loves me, and I don't see why I have to dress like everyone else because it's Monday 🌚.</p><p><br/></p><p>We don't even have a dress code.</p><p><br/></p><p>So what exactly is the problem ehn?</p>

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