Hey there!

 

If you are in this part of my world, it’s almost time to go to sleep and maybe dance around in the dream world with a little drizzling sugar serving as rain. It’s the dreamland, after all, it should not always make sense.

 

Have you ever tried writing something? Something so damn cool in your head? Like, your mind, and your soul slaps your back in wonder of such beauty that you are about to bring out from them. Like you got this whole thing figured out but when you seat, when you are finally very ready to bring this story to life, everything, every word suddenly jumbles up?

 

We Africans in this part of the world would say things like “no be juju be this? Or village people don remember my matter today”. In clear simple terms, it means ” is this not magic? people are after me”. This is currently my situation. I got this thing, this creative non-fiction I had planned to write today and all of a sudden, I am carrying my phone, I open my favorite writing app, and boom, I write, I delete, I write, I delete and now, I am here rambling.

 

But again, this is not new. I have so many half-written projects. Some of them are just titles— Obi meets Ifoema— and I abandon them. We all face situations like this. It might not necessarily be some story you planned to write, yours might be a book you want to finish or doing some touches on your C.V or something you want to learn or some chores you swore you were going to do like the piles of Clothes you have left unwashed since last year but when you finally sat down to do it, you just couldn’t or you didn’t even seat to do it at all.

 

Now I don’t know for you what exactly it Is you wanted to do but I know one thing when we decide to solve our issues, we will have to take different routes. I mean it. For me, I need to sit and think, and slap my head, punch my soul and quiz my mind and envision and think again and rest and beg the story to forgive me before I come back and face the screen head on and write something that makes sense but for you whose problem is not that, I think you need to face it head-on. You got dishes you need to do, no one will do that for you free of charge so you got to get up except you are willing to pay for it.

 

Okay, I am tired. I need to join the chickens and rest my head.

 

Good night from my end🥳🥳🥳.

I know, I know. I became a ghost and disappeared on you all. Hopefully, I am back and will not disappear on myself or you all ever again.

Thanks for being in my space by the way😊🥰😍.

So, for some of you, seeing Scorpions is a usual thing. It’s like seeing spiders, ants, cockroaches and the rest of the popular family of arthropods if there are any but for me, it’s not.

It was a wish at some point. You know when you wish or crave to get something spicy and hot when you have got a cold? Yeah, you get right? I badly wanted to see one. I had seen them in books, on the television and on the internet but that wasn’t enough.

What was even more frustrating was that my neighbors were constantly stung by this insect. One of the families in my compound was their favorite. They would find them in their bedrooms, at the front of their house, and yes, most times they stung them before they saw them. My neighbor would always ensure to grind them with her foot to death with plenty of colorful curses before she goes to get treated. They were our enemies and I wanted to see these enemies. My eyes craved for them.

One day, when I was beginning to accept my faith of not ever seeing them in unplanned reality, I stumbled on one. I was just walking carelessly at night and swinging my already dimmed torch light in the compound when my neighbor screamed 🙀. My brain of course reacted by sending a message to my body to jerk in fear and boy, did I.

Alas, it was the creation that I was longing to see that was in my very before ready to swing at me with its poisoned tail.

I flashed my light at it from a distance and grinned like a baby eating solid food for the first time and discovering the sweetness, lol. My eyes have met its food. But I had to kill it or someone else was going to satisfy its desire to cause havoc.

Ever craved to see something? Have you seen it? How did you feel🤔? Tell me, I will like to know and fan girl💃 about it with you.