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            Should I take you back? Back to when you used to wake up early, not sitting on the bed, wondering what the day had in store for you? Back to when the chirping of the birds were dulcet, sonorous and musical unlike now, they sound so plaintive and brassy. Like the remains of something beautiful which is now damned. Should I take you back to when your only problem was to describe the girl you had a crush on in primary with the most pampered and decorated words?? Maybe you did it to get good marks. Maybe you did it to impress her or maybe you did it to make yourself feel good. Does she still have an infectious smile? Is she still a resplendent damsel? Is her hair still as silky as Kareena Kapoor's which tumbles over her shoulders? Your problem was that none of your siblings should sit on your favorite spot and couch. You'd feel bad if you are walking and you step on the edge of the tiles because you were so careful not to. The same mentality a...

Me:Hello society. How you doing? (Absolutely not in Joey's voice) Society: Let's skip the greetings. What do you want? Me: Before we jump into anything, who are you exactly? Society:You've grown too tall for a girl. Me: It definitely is you. The lucky bastard. The one that gets to teach boys to be ashamed of their emotions. How being "manly" is the way forward. Silence is a blood-curdling scream of anguish, set out to break their souls. It is unfortunate how at the drop of a hat, they all grow thinking the same. It's sad that we don't get to teach them sooner that success is a sense of achievement and not an illegitimate child. Society:Not a single penny for your thoughts. Me: What's your problem with women who're over 30 and still unmarried? I'll quote you with some drop of decency if you justify it with the biological concept but I won't. Because it's not. You've made the male ego so fragile such that independent wo...

                  If we were to be everything we've been through, what would you be? What has become of you beloved? Has life made you a skeleton of yourself? What happened to the skeletons that were in your closets? Do you check up on them? No because you only think about yourself!! Do you remember the first time you ran out to play in the rain? Do you remember the feeling? That feeling of a dog with two tails or full of joys of spring.  I read somewhere today that kids raised with love tend to act and think differently from those raised on survival. But are they not flowers grown on concrete gardens? Beautiful and forlorn?  You're always the first one to break off relationships because of the fear of being left. You'd be seated somewhere peacefully and your anxiety starts its usual seduction on a lovely lazy afternoon. She tells you how y'all going to end up like poetries with uncommon metaphors. How in the end, you're goi...

First attempt. Should I serve my greetings with the usual "hey guys it's your girl Hanifa with her first work" or go with the hi that has 5is that make it friendly and welcoming or just go the old way and say that I hope this post finds you in the best of health, the best of sanity and the best of mental health -of course this couldn't be forgotten, mental health . Before I start, I want to make it certain that a good read doesn't have to be coated with jargons and splashed around with life threatening sentences to the Queen's language. Soo,what do I talk about? Love? Friendship or life in general? Life. Define life. Where are you now? Can you hear me? How was the fight with your demons today? Did you win or did you compromise? Are you friends with some of your demons? Do they tire you out or you got tired and realized at the end of the day they're still all you got?  Your demons bore you now, you sit with them quietly and it gets comfortable. Do you...