I was so sick yesterday, It is funny how you are sick as an adult and you just want to get well as soon as possible but as a child you want to remain sick and sulk. So I went to the hospital yesterday and two things happened, one annoyed me and the other just got me saying “are you for real?” I saw the doctor yesterday and I could tell she was not happy to see me but that was not a problem as all that mattered was that I got well, She did not read about at last visit, she just wanted to be done with this patient and move on to the next and because she did not even know anything about me, she was making a lot of mistakes and she finally had to read through my file in front of me. The way I knew doctors operate is that they read your last visit before you come in, so they have an idea about you. After I finished from the frowning doctor’s office as I was walking towards my car, I saw a guy shouting at the traffic warden, the traffic warden was explaining something in an audible tone but this guy kept shouting and before I knew it he went ” You guys just talk to people anyhow, Do You even Know Who I am?” I was so interested, I need to know who this man is, so with my head banging like a drum was being played by a kid drummer, I just slowed down to hear what he was about to say ” You think I am just a private driver, because I am not with my ID card, I am a Shell Driver, I would show you my ID card now, I am not a Private driver, I am a shell!!! Driver” At this point , I entered my car before he brings his ID card and show all of us. Why do people feel they need to say who they are to prove a point? Who you are is for your pocket, do you really have to announce it? After all, if who you are is so important, then I would have known before you say it. It is a self -esteem problem when you have to tell people who you really are, what you really have , who you know. I remember I had a class mate that had very low self-esteem but I guess to her, it was to show to us that she was bigger than us, If they ask her a question in class, she goes “ I have been privileged to travel around the world, I have been to china, london, America etc so this question...” there was a time she even went “ Obehi I am a proud person, I have different things, I don’t relate with people not in my class” me being one of those people, “but when I was coming here, my husband told me, forget you have a range rover 2010 in your garage, forget you have a rav 4 jeep, forget that you have a this and that, just bring yourself down and relate with other people” and whenever she gist, she would go, ‘” so i told Eniola, Eniola is Abiola’s daughter, or she would say my best friend Funke, her husband is a big shot in chevron” and in my head, I would be like ‘I don’t know Funke or Eniola, why do I have to know who they are or what they do?” Have you met people like this? Well, at the end of the school year, I knew where she was living, the cars they drive, the business her husband is involved in and her foreign househelps.lolll Please guys we shouldn’t allow what we have, what we are called, the places we work(,big or small), the people we hang out with define us, we are more than all of that. Who are you really without the things you think you have?
