The Clean Teen

It's unfair, isn't it? How they all just walk away. Boys never stick around to give birth or carry the baby after the deed is done which leaves the girl in a disadvantaged position. When Susan John was a little girl, she knew exactly what she wanted out of life and had nursed a lifelong desire of becoming a medical doctor and was vigorously pursuing this dream of hers until she met Toluwa and everything fell apart. Being a product of a single parent, nobody believed she could make the same mistake after she watched her mother struggle through life to raise her. Though she understood her morbid fear of the opposite sex, she felt her antagonism ran deeper than a scorned woman and had wondered how she would ever find a husband if she had to stay away from all men.  But that was until she met Toluwa where she had gone to watch a movie.    "It's so sad how the protagonist died, why couldn't they save him?" Susan asked in-between sobs as they trooped out of the cine...

The first quarter of the year always calls for a sober reflection on the previous years' activities such as academic pursuits, relationships with family and friends, and a host of other things. But I've come to realize that the best way to start the new year is with a lot of confidence and a solid approach to whatever you do, for your projected self-worth often determines what you get out of life; meaning that what you see is what you get. That's why I love artists. One thing you can't take away from them is their self-worth; the ability to take an ordinary image, be it a sculpture or drawing, and turn it into something art lovers would be willing to pay a huge amount of money to acquire. I attended an art exhibition not quite long ago. There was this particular artwork that drew my attention. I watched as multitudes of visitors to the art museum would stop in front of it, and turn their heads 60 degrees, just to decipher what was on it until it got to a very young coup...