If you're like me that's always struggling to lose weight you'd relate to certain things.
Like, this morning on my way to attend a seminar at The Muson Centre, I stopped to grab breakfast at a fastfood restaurant in Victoria Island. I asked for one set of toast and a cup of coffee. I looked at the array of food right before my eyes, from fried yams to akara to boiled yams to porridge yams to scrambled eggs to omelet to chinese fried rice to rice and curry sauce to sausages to pancakes to cream donuts to cakes and on and on, and I looked down at my plain toast and black coffee without sugar. I sighed.
Then this chic beside me, looking like nwanunu, looking like a tiny bird with brittle bones, had her tray handed to her. 3 portions of toast with eggs inside, then omelet, then a bowl of porridge, then a mug of milo with 3 satchets of milk and four sugar cubes and then orange juice, and water.
I cried.
No, literally, hot tears slid down my eyes.
When I was going to eat I had to walk by her table to check if she had company. She was alone. Dear lord.
I went and sat and watched her massacre her food with delicate fingers while I ate my toast which strangely felt like cardboard in my mouth.
I guess all I'm saying is life is unfair. Life is very unfair.
I feel this a few other times too. Like with that my friend who never ever attended lectures, turtorials, joined discussion classes, bought books or even handouts, and spent each semester going from Enugu to Lagos to Abuja to Accra to Jo'burg to Dubai and would come back a week to exams and spend the next few days sleeping then the day before the exams she asks to "glance" through your handouts and notes, then sleeps off shortly... You enter the exam hall feeling sorry for her but you guys come out and you're pensive but she's very excited. She's excited because she had fun, the heffer actually HAD FUN writing the exams! And once it all ends she's going from the exam hall to the airport and you don't hear from her for another week or two. Then results comes out and while you and your discussion group members are struggling with Bs, Cs, Ds, she's the only person you know cleared her papers with many A's. Truly life is unfair. 😂😂
I know we all have our own "life is unfair" moments. Share yours with me, let's laugh together.
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Ah! Where do I start? So many places that I have failed, others have succeeded.
ReplyDeleteSo the consolation is- Where others have failed, I will succeed.
The concept of God's Grace also makes it easy to accept that life aint fair.
I accepted that a looong time ago.
One day I ran into a friend from Uni. 1) This guy doesnt have a job 2) Im not aware of any business he is doing 3) Im sure I did better than him in School + Iv been working since I left School 4) All he does is slay on IG with his wife. But when I saw him step out of a white 2015 Ford explorer with his wife and kid. I shook him and literally looked at myself from head to toe and just thought - Which kind life!
Peace.
Yeah a lot, I see my pairs who engage in illegal things to get money and flaunt it on SM, while I do things in the right way and don't get even close to where they are, I cry a lot ,have sleepless nights, but I still believe God will crown all my efforts with success.
DeleteLol. God's Grace is not a "concept".
Delete@Gifty, they don't even have to do illegal stuff, this life is just unfair and there's no explanation for it...sometimes we get the things we don't deserve and other times we don't get the things we deserve so I say we focus on the things that are working well for us and give thanks while praying and hoping for the rest to fall in place!
Delete"sometimes we get the things we don't deserve and other times we don't get the things we deserve so I say we focus on the things that are working well for us and give thanks while praying and hoping for the rest to fall in place!"
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Hahahahahahahahaha,hohohohoh, heheheheheheheh,hihihihihihihihi!!!This is how I laugh at this life when It starts to share chocolate/red velvet creamcheese cake to some people and look at others and just hand them some bean cakes fried in palm oil.
ReplyDeleteBut watchya gon do? You gotta enjoy your bean cake and make a nice body polish outta the palm oil and shine like a star.
Sometimes i feel that way especially when i have worked my butt off for something and it gets handed over to someone that doesnt even have a clue of what to do about it, this breaks my heart but then i have learnt that what is mine will definitely come to me esp with crazy office politics.
ReplyDeleteMy husband says I don't behave like I have worries...I have this I don't care attitude to things.Life is unfair,hell yes but I don't let it fucking weigh me down..I don't envy people and don't fucking envy me..I am a happy girl.TNHW
ReplyDeleteWow,FTS. I also use the F word when I'm happy too. I guess we are both happy girls...lol
DeleteYes babes...Life's so f'ing short.TNHW
Delete😂😂 But Thelma you should have gotten used to this "diet" life by now. These things should now be giving you goose bumps all over rather than cravings. 😂😂😂😂😂 Pele.
ReplyDeleteI pray ooo 😂😂. I pray. Food is bae. Forever and always ðŸ˜ðŸ™ˆ
DeleteAnd then some of us are actually looking to add, even if it's a little weight. But we end up losing and never gaining. In January, I was tops size 8/10 and bottoms size 12. Now I'm size 8 for both. Weight was 60-62kg, now 56..... :( who did I offend?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say life has been good to me but God has been good to me. I'm almost like TNHW with no worries or envy about the other person. Sure sometimes I feel 'oh why aren't my parents richer, why aren't I smarter, why aren't I slimmer and hotter? ' but I also fully understand that this are things I can make conscious effort to change and if I ain't going to be doing that for whatever reason, I have no time to compound my worries by being jealous of the people that have it regardless if whether they merit it or not.
ReplyDeletei can relate with the weight loss and watching what you eat. Went out with my friend and i was eating one small portion of ofada rice and a of bottle water while she was eating 3 portions with a big Pepsi. After that she consumed ice-cream and bought chocolates to go at shop rite. life is harsh o. Or seeing my unemployed cousin affording tins i cant because of runz and my dad keeps saying is she not your mate? no sir, she is not, the men giving her the money are not even my fathers mate. venting over.
ReplyDelete@ Kon, your comment really really made me laugh!! LOL.
ReplyDeleteYes life is really unfair indeed. But we should always be grateful for where we are though, some people still look at you and think oh life is unfair to me, look at her/him, they are better off!
For me I was one of the people JAMB showed serious pepper and decided to let me have access to tertiary education when some of my mates were either done with service or their masters programme. It was so bad that I never went for reunions. I see them on the road in their fancy cars and I hide so we don't get talking about life and I start feeling sorry for myself. Some of them are even married with about two or three kids and I just rounded off my studies. But I'm still thankful for my life and I'm hopeful.
ReplyDeleteHi guy is been a long time coming
ReplyDeletelife has been unfair Ohh, people do things and get away with it, you try it once and you are hooked forever the outcome is something you for ever live to regret... But life why are u like this??plenty things that life can be unfair with but hey I know God knows best and his plans for me are gradually unfolding #iyanumasele..
ReplyDeleteWhen you read psalm 127 in the bible. ..you'll understand the meaning of life is not fair.😂😂😂. It's just what it is...God chooses to show favour to whom He pleases. It's not by your power....however, this doesn't mean one shouldn't work hard.
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Life really is unfair, here I am ready n willingly to go study for my MBA after securing admission and getting a partial scholarship in the UK, yet no money to pay my tuition fee.*cries* Yet my friend is telling me her parents are begging her to go abroad to further her studies but she is turning them down because she does not want to study anymore...
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