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just a Guy

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

Never gib up fren, it really gets better🙏🏼

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

You think I'm happy living abroad?

I have a family I grew up with, whom I love with all of my heart - and the reality keeps dawning on me, on how many times I will see them before I one day turn 60.

People I saw daily, or once a month - I haven't seen in years, and would realistically only see once a year, going forward.

You think I'm happy?

That one day, I might end up having children and my siblings might not have the relationship with them - the relationship I had with my uncles, in my formative years? I remember clearly how they would take us to MrBiggs every Sunday - I am currently reliving the flavour from that meatpie.

How we would go to the family house in Ikeja, every year for Eid. The grandchildren uniforms, the snacks while watching your uncles slaughter rams.

You think I'm happy that I might one day lead a family of children who might not know their version of that?

WTF will I be doing in another man's land, if I did everything they asked me to do from childhood (face your studies, be exceptional, stay away from crime, be hardworking) and opportunities lined up for me to be the best I could, in my motherland? WTF will I be doing here?

Why will I condescend myself to living in a clime where I have to mentally switch from sun burning weather to teeth clenching winter - when I came from a land where I never needed gloves? You think I'm happy?

If I could do honest work, be on my way home and not have to bother about the risk of getting shot by the people meant to protect me, because I have some lines of tattoos on my body - you think I would leave?

If I could trust a justice system to defend me, ensure my rights even though I am a nobody - have trustworthy institutions banking on the highest standards, not have to worry about the bread I eat, the fake drinks from the club or streets, the fake drugs - you think I would leave?

Don't get me wrong. I am grateful for the opportunities this clime has given me, to test my limits - to be everything I thought I could be. But all of these, in replacement for the soul I grew up with?

You know the satisfaction that settled within me when I could wake up on a Saturday morning, stroll to the Iya wanke's place - relish an entire plate, or some ewa agonyin while watching children battle it out, in a 5 v 5 across the streets.

That communal living that relished my soul, is now replaced with silent streets and finely divided sealed terraces.

You walk through the city centres in the evenings - you see friends having an aperitif (they do so every evening), you see grandfathers meeting up with their children, you see entire families with extended families living across the streets, first cousins are even able to use the same gym and you remember what that looked like for you back home?

You think of all your friends scattered across continents, some you might never get to hug again.

For a lot of diasporans, you don't want Nigeria to work more than us. A lot of us want to come home, but what is home? Where is home? When will home feel like home?

I hope to continue living life without lack, in comfort, with accomplished dreams - but I want to do so, with soul. When I die one day, I want to do so - with soul.

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

lol

[CentreGoals. @centregoals]

🚨🚨🎙️| Endrick: “Football is not a nice place. I hope my son becomes a doctor, a lawyer, or anything else.”

[@guardian]

[Noah @antibearthesis]

“CLAUDE I ASKED YOU 3 TIMES AND YOU KEEP GETTING IT WRONG, FIND ME THE NEXT $NVDA AT $11 THINK LIKE NANCY PELOSI AND FIX THIS NO MISTAKES”

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

Good products are hard to vary

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

Intelligent, competent people don’t respond well to micromanagement, They know their value, want a voice, and think they deserve better and they’re usually right ,often because they’ve earned it. That’s the Maresca–Chelsea dynamic.

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

As a founder ,People who are better than you usually don’t want to work for you for so long , better companies , entities, will poach them , you can either be prideful about it and let them go or convince them that you’d do better , learn life !

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

Intelligent, competent people don’t respond well to micromanagement, They know their value, want a voice, and think they deserve better and they’re usually right ,often because they’ve earned it. That’s the Maresca–Chelsea dynamic.

[JOÉ DWET FILÉ @JoeDwetFile]

RIHANNA 🍸

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

“ progressive carrying ”, walayi, it won’t be well with you people

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

3m$

[Pharaoh👳🏾‍♂️👑 @MrMekzy_]

You act like you’re okay but deep down you want what?

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

I need a City Arsenal ticket for Sunday, anyone?

[Uba @isdoreTech]

Once the risk no kill me I dey take another dangerous one

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

@EnrichedFrancis @festus1501 Nah this kin thing Dey make person wan craze

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

They should sack him first, let me see something 😂😂

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

Hahahaha!😂

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

Until the end gaffer , they should sack him first, I want to see something 😂

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

Maresca outers, enjoyyyyyy!😂😂

[Vince™ @Blue_Footy]

🗣 Enzo Maresca: "We are not good enough for transition game. If you see our worst moments of the season or games where we struggled, they were all games where the game became transition. And it's no good."

~ @SkySportsPL

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

lol

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

@EnrichedFrancis Doesn’t matter , my concerns are still valid , you can’t be setting up like that and expect to be saved every second half, same with Napoli and even every other match we’ve played under him

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

You fuck around , you find out

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

Rosenior Una, I will always say this , with everything in my life , the process matters , I don’t do Result based analysis , nothing ends well with it

[Oríàdé @BrainyGodwin]

I don’t even look forward to weekend football matches no more , this club has ruined everything for me ,ffs