I’m 27 18 seems like yesterday and 27 seemed like eternity Yesterday seems like yesterday when we used to dance to ‘O-P-P’ and style our haircuts like Bobby brown.
18 was when Toni Braxton wanted to 'Breath again' and Shabba Ranks was the 'Champion lover'.
18 seems like its just gone by a second ago when we starched our school uniforms and wore our long white socks up to our dry ashy knees
only to be soiled again
when the bus conductor beckons- “Aba road! You dey go?”
Breakfast used to be round bread and a cup of Bonvita. Lunch was moin-moin and chin chin washed down with 3 Naira pepsi
Our lips were chaffed from cruel hammattan weather.
Our school was in class rooms with broken windows yet wholesome enough to contain our enduring hopes for the future.
Hmm…18 seems like yesterday when ‘Arizona Classic jean’ was the latest fashion and Rendezvous or Mr. Biggs was our favorite spot.
18 seemed like yesterday when we were ‘JAMB bites’ hoping to get into ‘UNI’ 18 was our present day and 27 was our hope-future seemily far far away.
Now that I’m here, what’s next? Maybe 62
4 comments:
I feel you boo, I am 27 too!
I remember pintos and hipsters and sphaghetti strap and being the RSVP for a hot party and having group names in high school like the Unique babes at 16. OH hell...I am glad I'm 27, 16 was far to embarassing!
@dqueenb lol...u are something else!
hilarious... I actually wish I couold go back to sweet 16/17 (18 was misery). My life was less dramatic... the most i looked forward to was b-ball tournaments at A-I-S.
16- unrepentant tomboy, roll tire on the street, ride my bmx bike
I wish i could go back to 18 before i discovered that people are not what they seem to be
I wish i could be 18 again, agile, full of brash confidence, mouthy
Oh well im only 24, still a bit like that, but less brassy
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