Yesterday was Valentine’s Day, the day of love. Am not sure why this day exists but I guess every miserable soul on the planet felt the same. I spent most of my day in the hospital but I couldn’t run away from the truth. Every office you entered had red flowers and the ladies made sure it was visible.
Why can’t they put them under the table or something? Hellooo…some of us have only gotten flowers once in our lives and others hope that day won’t be when their bodies are about to be thrown down a six foot hole.
At around 3 in the afternoon I decided to run away from the madness in Nairobi and return to this little part of the world where love is not considered a priority. The matatu ride was the longest and most boring. The driver was in the v day mood and played Westlife and Boys to Men. I almost strangled myself thinking it was a plot to frustrate me. By the time I got to juja, the Chinese sons of bitches who are making the road had blocked the way in and my journey got even longer.
When I got to my house, I decided to a post but started watching glee and my day turned around. Trust the cast of glee to put a smile on the face of a sad woman. Then I started reading other blogs and completely forgot to update my one follower about my day. Speaking of my audience, while looking for notes on online journalism a couple of weeks ago, I bumped into an interesting statement. “Bloggers take pride in their posts even if no one reads them.” I made sure I told my students that but I couldn’t use myself as an example.
By 8 30pm I was asleep dreaming about dogs and my high school teacher spanking me. Very creepy…Seriously! This guy was short, had a big belly and bum. Take a minute to internalize that.
In my nightmare, I met my teacher and he hugged me. Weird. I was with my small brother who started running around and then my teacher told me he’s going to spank me for my brother’s behavior…and he did. Is it possible to undream dreams? Is that even a word?
Then someone woke me up at a quarter past midnight to wish me a happy v day. I don’t know if he was trying to be funny coz it was already the 15th of February and he was in the same time zone. There is a reason why midnight is 00 00 hours. So that you can reset any four important aspects of your life and start fresh with hope that the next day would be different. Be hopeful that you’ll get a promotion, get laid or bump into your soul mate.
I have to go prepare for my lecture. Have a nice day where you won’t feel like the red on the butchery wall is mocking you and the red on Airtel adverts won’t be intoxicating.
