Wall Of Jericho🤧

So it has been weeks and we are still on strike. I have been seriously contemplating looking for work or going to learn work. I don’t know which one to do and my parents are always shouting ‘read your books’and then we all know there is no ginger to read (in other words, I have not been reading shingbai).

Since I have not been reading, my parents have decided to bombard me with house chores. Today go to the market, tomorrow go to the market… Next tomorrow,market one would nearly mistake me for a market seller. If it is not market I am being sent to up and down, it is stream or one of the farms as if to say no matter my education, I’m still a villager at heart🤦.

Ever since I and Emeka’s incident, the both of us have been sworn enemies… It was obvious he wanted to revenge for the humiliation (as if we were not in it together) but, I warned him that if he should try anything funny, his almost naked video every group chat in UNN would receive (his boxers was even dirty and undersized). As a supposed big boy who knew I was not bluffing, he swore not to disturb me further but that didn’t make us friends… We were always insulting each other anytime our paths crossed but it never affected me Until one day.

I was going to deliver a message at a neighbor’s place o when I ran into Emeka’s friends he was not even there. They were just by the roadside calling out to any female that passed. The lady in front of me was set. She had it all in right proportion… The hips, the boob’s and the butt. When she passed she was hailed🙄 cat calls and all ‘Ada’, ‘Omalicha’, ‘Ukwulina ‘, ‘Nwanyimarama’. Then I passed 😭😭😭😭. I passed o😭 and then they started hissing and one if them called me wall of Jericho. At first I didn’t get the joke until they started singing ‘the wall of Jericho fell down FLAT… ‘ the pain in my heart 😭…it entered. O wole paaa. Wall of Jericho but why? It really entered because I knew it was true I was pained to my bone marrow.

I determined to do something about my state. That’s how I went home oo without consulting anyone including Amaka my best friend. I went home and said I would do 100squats per day starting from the evening. My sister warned me that 100 was excessive but I was too pained to hear word. I started and she watched me… I did up to 30(mind you, I did not do warm-ups o) …i was already weak too weak but because my sister was looking to say I told you so, I continued. It was when I was reaching 40, I heard that ASUU strike has been called off. In my shock, I lost balance and fell and hit my head. The last thing i remembered hearing before totally losing consciousness was my sister’s high pitched ‘I told you so! ‘… and when I was revived, Amaka had plenty of talk for me *groans.

P. S: To fellow walls of Jericho like me. Please do not kill yourself. If no body is in love with the same of you, you be in love with the shape of your-self. Is it not ordinary love biko. It is good to keep fit but don’t overdo it… If not you would just die and plenty shapeless people would come to your burial and you would feel insulted.

Thank you… I love you please leave your comments…xoxo.