THINGS I AM NOT THANKFUL ABOUT

I am aware that no one person is perfect, as I cannot do it right all the time. In as much as I believe so much in positive feelings and expectations, I still find myself in some sort of difficult helplessness. It becomes worst when the very persons you would go for solution turn their back on you, not because they cannot help out, but because they are obviously tired of you being around them. I am not a mind reader, but because I have been in situations when I needed to help someone in some small ways, rather than left them in a damned helplessness.

We have very successful people in life, but no one of them would tell their success story without sad moments. This fact has always motivated my sense of humor amidst difficult moments. I have laughed over my inability to pay my transport to work, unable to provide food on the table for my family, harassed by my landlord for due house rent, sent home at work because I could not afford a corporate wear, and so many other bad situations worth crying about; and like a spark of lightning, an answer to the almost unsolvable bad situation comes to one’s mind. I have come to realize that there is always a silver lining on the dark thick clouds.

I would always tell myself, “Kenneth Obasi, you have not come to the point of shedding your blood, so keep moving on till you get it right”, and Mr. Ken would always tell me, “ Young man, this is how we roll” and I would continue. I may not have the most expensive cloths to put on, but I feel cool with my ironed branded “OK” shirts and penciled work pants – “simplicity is the shortest way to heaven” said by an Anonymous.

My boss had once said to me that I am an Alfa male; I didn’t know what he meant until I googled it. It does not matter if I ate fried “Garri” garnished with onion and vegetable oil this morning, the folks would always smile back at me even when they knew I am just a “Point and Kill”. By default I am always kind to them and have always fought for their just course; may be that is just why everyone thinks I am every woman’s man.

Life is so short to focus too much on things that make me sad that it becomes high time I started focusing on the little good things that come my way. The most important of these little things is life (priceless), a small family to die for, and a few fans of Mr. Ken’s world full of endless possibilities.