Thoughts on the writing journey

Yes, the title is a bit vague but I want to rant, no, talk😁, about being a, ugh, what the title said. So strap on!! Sorry just watched a space movie.

Being an Igbo Nigerian is hard, I mean you have probably seen videos online with titles like “African parents when…”  Or “African parents be like…”

That way you already have a hint about what we go through… So much wonderful memories..🤧

But.. when you an Igbo, (the parents are really strict when it comes to education, it’s especially worse if they were not privileged to go to school, it’s already your duty to be an A student but I’m not a straight A student, more like a B and C student, yes, I failed, they won’t let me hear the end of it!) Catholic Nigerian, it’s much much worse. Apart from the many many prayers we get to choose from 😲 and the group activities -that nobody joins-, my Dad just announced that we should not be friends with the opposite sex!

I'm not really a people person to be honest, and I tend to be a bit toxic☣️ like sometimes. That's probably why I don't have much friends... Great.

All my friends are guys, the few girl friends I have are far away like FAR. So, if I cut those ones off, well,
I’ve got none.

Thanks Dad for cutting off the guys in my life so that I can be socially awkward when I’m going on a date in my 30s!

I really admire people who were straight A student through all their schooling years, like that’s amazing! Like the Asians but some of them don’t actually like the whole smart Asian stereotype and left the education, no, science sector to do something else because most (one) of the animation videos I watch on YouTube is made by an architectural student! He rubs it in our faces 😤.

THANK YOU, Domics!!

Don’t forget to like, follow, comment and share 😜

Love 💕 Gl!tch

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Being an Igbo Nigerian Catholic lol

Yes, the title is a bit vague but I want to rant, no, talk😁, about being a, ugh, what the title said. So strap on!! Sorry just watched a space movie.

Being an Igbo Nigerian is hard, I mean you have probably seen videos online with titles like “African parents when…”  Or “African parents be like…”

That way you already have a hint about what we go through… So much wonderful memories..🤧

But.. when you an Igbo, (the parents are really strict when it comes to education, it’s especially worse if they were not privileged to go to school, it’s already your duty to be an A student but I’m not a straight A student, more like a B and C student, yes, I failed, they won’t let me hear the end of it!) Catholic Nigerian, it’s much much worse. Apart from the many many prayers we get to choose from 😲 and the group activities -that nobody joins-, my Dad just announced that we should not be friends with the opposite sex!

I'm not really a people person to be honest, and I tend to be a bit toxic☣️ like sometimes. That's probably why I don't have much friends... Great.

All my friends are guys, the few girl friends I have are far away like FAR. So, if I cut those ones off, well,
I’ve got none.

Thanks Dad for cutting off the guys in my life so that I can be socially awkward when I’m going on a date in my 30s!

I really admire people who were straight A student through all their schooling years, like that’s amazing! Like the Asians but some of them don’t actually like the whole smart Asian stereotype and left the education, no, science sector to do something else because most (one) of the animation videos I watch on YouTube is made by an architectural student! He rubs it in our faces 😤.

THANK YOU, Domics!!

Don’t forget to like, follow, comment and share 😜

Love 💕 Gl!tch

Photo by Domics video on YouTube.

My insecurities

Insecurity is the state of being subjected to vulnerability, thereby causing an individual to view him/herself as undesirable and unattractive, which happens to everyone.

Here’s a list

As long as I can remember, I’ve always dealt with insecurities. First of all is my weight and height 🤫. All the members in my family are tall. My elder brother and little sister are taller than my parents and my little brother is gaining on me, ouch 😭. Though some people find my shortness attractive but you can’t be in the midst of your family, everyone is tall except you looking like a dwarf penguin.

And i have a flat nose, which a former classmate of mine couldn’t stop himself from referring to my nose as a hippopotamus bum. It’s super hard to take pictures without covering my nose cause it’s sooo obvious, I see my nose first when I look in a mirror and I have oily skin so imagine my nose in all its glory on a sunny day!🤧

Third on my list is sweat, in my previous sh!t post about getting ready to work, I couldn’t find work anyway, the reason is in another post I’ll upload after this one, I spoke about making first impressions. So, I generally release huge amounts of sweat on a daily basis, even just by doing little things like tying my shoes laces, which is not a good feature for a girl. People always point it out, cause it’s so obvious, like ‘why are you sweating’ or ‘you sweat too much!’ and that just kills the little self esteem I have, SLOWLY.

While I was in school, I had a different handkerchief for each day of the week, might as well be fashionable while sweating, I lost all of them though, so🤷😹. I wear shirts that are dark coloured because when you clean your sweat off, its not that obvious and also long sleeves because I’m very hairy, and it’s black which makes it hard to unsee against my light skin tone, and I’m tired of shaving! They just grow right back!🤪

To round this “cheerful” post is my small feet and tiny toenails 😹. I’m sharing foot size with my Mom i.e 39 and 40. I sometimes wear my little brother shoes, he’s 12 this year 🎉, though not all of them are my size, some are bigger than my feet and people ALWAYS point it out like, ‘you have tiny feet, how do you paint your toenails?’ my toenails are super small so I don’t stress myself trying to paint them and squinting my big eyes because I’ve lost my glasses, again😤, I just say ‘I’m trying to let my nails breathe because they have been living under layers of old paint for far too long ‘.

Here’s the link to my “ready to work” post.

https://helloblog6.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/first-day-of-work-rules/

HERE

Love, Gl!tch💕

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Toxic Moonlight

Anyone who’s cursed to chat with me on WhatsApp knows that I’m hardly or never online. The few times I spend online are… Well, to round it up, I don’t chat, I am always confused when it comes to replying some messages and keeping up with conversations.
That’s why lots of people find me boring 😔, I’m not social but I’m impressed with myself of having more than 500 contacts! Because I don’t go out, I’m home always, that’s pretty good right? I got some, 99% of the contacts from WhatsApp links and I don’t talk to any of them.

Classic loner, physically and socially.😤😹

I think that’s why I’m toxic sometimes and people find it hard to keep up with me (I’ve been told that by an @sshole), because I don’t have experiences with human interaction, toxicity is kind of like a little defence mechanism ⚔️.

My Toxic List

• I don’t have to bother about emotional rollercoasters especially dealing with some “friends” (been there before.)

• And some tight situations can be fixed with some magic words (😌 done that).

I feel like a sad movie character lol. I know what I’m saying is wrong and I should think about other people feelings, but, I don’t really enjoy being nice to some people sometimes, I guess I’m a sh!t head some times, but I’m only sh!tty to people that have wronged me in the past.

But it’s really crazy how people think I’m a pleasant person to be with, I’m nice sometimes but not all the times.

It’s beautiful tonight, someone is praying really loud, the weather is a bit cold, and the moon is beautiful and bright tonight, I’m into moons 🌒 lol, there’s a name for it but I’ve forgotten the name.

I like nights like this.

Don’t forget to like, follow,share and comment 😜.

Love 💕 Gl!tch

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Re-reading and Mom’s love

Soo,

After three weeks of my mom deciding if I should start working, she decided that I should go to an army nursing school instead because my Aunt had convinced her was better than waiting for the “yearly” ASUU strike which has caused many students to stay at home for close to four months to end.

I was really okay with all of it because all my major decision making were accompanied with my mummy said 😹 until she pointed out (and this is what I usually see in novels) that she wanted to live in a big house, which I found out was almost every parent plan.

So it’s back to reading, Biology, Chemistry, English, Physics, Mathematics and Current Affairs, ugh.

But I hope that it’s all worth it at the end, cause most people are like “why don’t you write your entrance exam and gain admission into a university, you are just wasting your time” but they’re not the ones that’ll pay the fees so…..?

Have you been in that situation before? Like different people are bringing in their own ideas, even your closest friends on what to do with your own life😹. And you are like “I’ve got everything figured out” and they’re like “nah, you are still little or you don’t know what you are doing,so listen to us”.

I owe my mom a lot and much more 💝💗

Gl!tch’s Diary!

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For the Teen Titans diehard fans!!!

If you enjoy the Teen Titans, especially Raven and Beastboy, you’ll love this post.

This is something I’m not ashamed of, I love love LOVE watching cartoons and my all time best channel is Cartoon Network. Apart from The Amazing World of Gumball and We Bare Bears, I love Teen Titans Go. Mostly because of Starfire and Robin – Strobin – and Raven and Beastboy!! – I can’t think of their couple name -. I love the drawings of the Teen Titans as normal teenagers.

Here are our favorite Teen Titans pictures 😍

Perspective on Teenage sex in Lagos

Teenage sex is not a comfortable subject to talk about especially with your African (Nigerian) parents. That’s why most people get their information, sometimes incorrect, from their peers.

Here is a list of things that is likely to happen to you if you ask or tell your parents anything concerning sex. Trust me, I’ve been there lol😹

• Be sure to get the looks, sermons especially on “friends”. The Nigerian way of taming the term boyfriend. They dare not taint their elderly mouth with the sacred word boyfriend or girlfriend. They call it something like the stupid thing that Daddy Janet’s daughter did.
• You might be prayed on, yeah. Worst case scenario, that subject would always be a prayer point in your parents daily devotions (especially if they are strong Christians, like, STRONG).
• Every incident of rape or pregnancy can be directed to you “Jennifer, you see. Assuming she kept her legs close, none this would have happened. Let this be a lesson. I’ve said my own”.
• Your parents (or mom) might tell her friends about you. So, don’t be surprised if visitors are advising you to keep till marriage night.

For the rural teenagers like us AKA omo street – meaning child of the street – (mind you, my families and friends think I’m too soft to be “street”) teenage sex can be a topic widely discussed from junior secondary to, well, eternity.

Some people do not know the difference😹

Differences between the Holy virgin and Worldly virgin.

Mind you, there are two types of virgins I know. The holy virgin and the worldly virgin.
When asked, holy virgins sees non-virgins as not good, as being irresponsible and not able to “discipline or control your urges” and therefore, they tend to look down on the non-virgins as lost boys and girls.

Worldly virgins have no issues with it whatsoever, they respect the non-virgins decisions and are cool with it (they will not look down on you, cool!). Some of them even see it as cool though they can act holy from time to time though.

Non-virgins, on the other hand, sees virgins as inexperienced, not knowing what was good and being holy holy or Aunty too good, which is totally wrong. They just need to find the right type. Good luck!😹

A hairdresser apprentice was talking about how some people were so stupid to have sex before 18, and I couldn’t decide, if it was worth my time mentioning the importance of sex to the body.
If I had said any of that,no doubt, she’d quote me after I had gone and I would be known as the customer who loves bad things.

And my mom would kill me if she found out, so… It’s a good thing I kept quiet. Some of us have to watch our necks yunno.😁

The sexually active teenagers who are ignorant of teenage pregnancy (if you don’t know, the withdrawal or coitus interruptus doesn’t work. Besides, ejaculation on the outside surroundings of the vagina may lead to conception. Fact!) normally end up pregnant. Pregnancy in the rurals or “trenches” is really bad and you going to get bad vibes with everyone trying to find out how it happened, who was the father and whatnot. Like it’s any of their business!

If you are sexually active or not, it’s important to please respect the other people’s decision, don’t force your opinions on someone else in the name of advice (some people hate that).
We need to be careful on this sexual journey, active fellas! Get protection! Be safe!
PS. This weather is a killer!!!

First day of work (rules)

So…

What do people do after they write their exams? They probably start working, which is really cool especially if you are used to the outside world… But what of people like me?

Our whole lives have been sheltered since we were born, how do we start looking for work and what do we do on our first day?

To be honest, its terrifying imagining leaving the house even to braid my hair talk less of leaving the house everyday to go to work, mixing with people I’ve never met. It takes a lot of energy and planning to even start a conversation with a total stranger (except if they talk to me first).

According to my sources (movies and surveys), the LIST on your first day of work:

• New wardrobe

You’ll have to upgrade your wardrobe especially if all your clothes are stay-at-home wears like mine. I’ve got only a few church and visitations. Check✔️

• Punctuality

Punctuality is a habit for some people, sadly not for all especially like me. I just come late to anywhere I’m going, so I devised a formula for myself. 30 mins is allotted to any of my tasks I have to do like bathing or dressing up stuff like that. Find your time management schedule (it’s a big deal, so I’ve heard).

• The first impression

According to studies, it takes 7 mins to make your first impression. I’ll have to work on that, I make terrible first impressions especially as the sweaty girl.

• Smell

I heard that deodorants is a plus to maximize your chances. Check✔️

You should be sun and clear skies. But not too much unless you’ll look like an electrocuted clown.
That’s all. Help a friend out and add your do’s and don’t’s. Thanks.

Nobody told us (after school days)

After school is not as magical and glittery as I had hoped. Nobody prepared me or any of my classmates for this.

Nobody told us that there would be days when we would not be sure of tomorrow or our next step.

Nobody told us that a few years from now we would be celebrating or regretting a decision that we made during this period.

Nobody told us that we might feel like our future would be staring bleakly at us even when we tried looking at it through rose-coloured glasses.

We were aware that we would separate after school but nobody told us that it would be this soon, that our lives was on different tracks with different endings.

That the friendship that we worked at for six years would be over in a year.

Nobody told us that some of us wouldn’t live happy lives, some might be broken, or hard, or sad or difficult, or even cut short.

Nobody told us that we would be strangers to each other on the road, that we would one day avoid a classmate on the road when one year ago we had deep discussions with each other on everything.

Nobody told us all this things…

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