Moments
So I say, I do not want to live out the rest of my life in this hole(Lagos), and I mean it, God knows I want to mean it.
We are made up of the moments in which we exist
Sometime after my last newsletter, I remembered how I wrote last year about living loud, and creating memories, I began to realize that I was losing sight of the outside world as I got more and more engrossed in my hobbies, but I didn’t want that, I wanted to see the world for what it has to offer me, I wanted to turn my face towards the sun every morning knowing that as long as its sight filled my eyes and its warmth graces my skin, there is always a new thing to see, a new chance waiting to happen, a new conversation yet to unfold.
I found myself whispering under my breath every time I walked the same road back home from work, you need to see new things Abdul, you need to be loud with your soul.
Hi, remember that mountain you wanted to go climb last year? We’re leaving on the 20th, are you still in?
All through the journey I kept remembering one conversation from "Fantastic Mr Fox", he said "my father dies at 7 non-fox year, I'm currently at 5, I do not want to die living in a hole" [or thereabout].
So I say, I do not want to live out the rest of my life in this hole(Lagos), and I mean it, God knows I want to mean it.
Run the dishwasher twice!
The best thing I’ve read on the internet lately is a reddit post about a conversation between an individual and her therapist, she mentions that she’s been unable to do her dishes because she would still need to wash them again after taking them out of the dishwasher because they wont be clean on the first wash, to which the therapist responds, “why not run the dishwasher twice?”, this had me realising that most times we are limited by our perception of how things should generally work rather than how things should work for us. Because it is the conventional way a task is done, it does not necessarily mean it is the only way it can be done.
Why do you invest so much into your paintings if it doesn’t even generate any income?
Tonight I was going through my notes app, to see if I had anything of importance I’d forgotten there, and I happened to read something I wrote at a low point, it felt so distant in the past because of how much my perception of things have changed since I wrote it, and all I can say is that I invest so much in my paintings because art, poetry, love, are the reasons life remains colourful.
p.s.
Dear reader,I hope you can forgive my absence❤️.