Titipetral

JUST BEFORE I LEFT SCHOOL (2009) Episode 1 (Started out a diary, now has gone through a fictitious modification-enjoy)           “My name is Titilayo and here is my NYSC story; “I schooled in a typical Nigerian public Tertiary Institution, whence the quest to earn a degree took out a whole seven years of my life for what was supposed to be an eight semester course. So no apologies for excitedly 'misbehaving' after graduation. I mean, who wouldn’t?” “A university in the South Western part of Nigeria, whose lecturers duly obey the clarion calls of their national comrades to go on strike rather too incessantly. An action to derisively out pour their grievance often over various issues that ranges from unpaid wages, poor working conditions among other demands, some of which I consider quite selfish.” “I remembered we once stayed back home for a whole year during one of such national strikes. A lot of us resumed with skills ...

Karma is what I describe as the result of any wrong doing or evil deed carried out by people.  Ironically though, it is not served quite instantaneously hot as believed from some quarters; Even though it tables itself ‘very hot’ , it could strike at a time much ‘colder’.   Sometimes it takes a while, long after the deed has been done for people to reap the evil of their past deeds. Many times they might have even forgotten that karma is actually serving them with the same plate they had used to serve others in the past. Just like the story mum told me some years back. I was told it happened in the early nineties, which though seemed every inch like a Nollywood story, did happened fro real. A young man who just came back from the ‘abroad’ after successfully bagging a good degree was walking his friend down to the bus stop. And just when the said friend had successfully crossed the bubbling road, abroad guy was not as lucky. He got hit by a truck, touted t...