02.06.2018
…and as I stepped into the small cottage Dad calls his new home, greeted Mum and took a sit to listen to Natures’ broken record for the umpteenth time, for sure on how I was not living according to Papa’s advice on learning and international language. “Spanish or French”.. My obvious response follows;
CHARLES: Daddy, Nigeria does not give us equal playing ground with the children of our technocrats and the owners of the Nigerian economy. I have spent year passionately growing the Entrepreneur in me, regarless the odds. I am trying my best to walk/work with the little I have got to barely pass through everyday. By the way I work as an independent associate for a few online magazine and a mobile small chops startup “Speedychops”. I barely earn anything as an external agent with this young businesses. I barely get support from you as I respect the fact you are retired and work for the Church full time.
FAVOUR (kid sister); There is food in the Kichen.
CHARLES; I know
FAVOUR: How do you know, you just entered.
CHARLES: Cant you see i am talking
FAVOUR: Must you always use your skill to act all the time, you are too proud.
DAD & MUM: *Goes Quite*
CHARLES: *Out of words*
Message Content ~ Right or wrong, the girl child is always in deliberate search of the “soft spot’ at all times, as she compulsively needs it to build her confidence. Her best source is her immidiate family #Celonarants!!
…and even that wondrous proclamation of “girlz arepeeple! ” is often tinged with a weird obsession over the newborn girl’s eventual pubescent development or future sexuality.
I just…can’t!
I do not heap praise upon people who hold newborn girls and proclaim their nascent understanding of female humanity.
I grieve.
Work out your misogyny in your therapist’s office. Work out your past hurts and issues with women in your internal room.
But don’t use your daughter as that space. She is not karma for fuckshit, or sent in spite of it. She is herself.
Love her as such.
#Celonarants