Fine Eyes, Bad Eyesight

you might be seeing shege but, I’m seeing shege pro max.

Hi! It’s me again.

Did you read my last newsletter? You should though, because you are not to miss anyone of them. It is bumper to bumper we are doing-me and all of you. So please don’t mind me and and just take a tour on my site. In other words, mind me 🙃. It is because of you I am writing, shey you know?

Elections are coming up, we still can’t find money, many of us are trekking up and down and you people still had the audacity to be doing love.

Anyway, i gave myself the sweetest treat on Valentine’s because if they will not do it for me, I’ll do it for myself. So I made a cake. Like, I literally made the cake myself and it turned out really nice. I would share the recipe but nobody send me work. What I can tell you is that the main ingredient is garri 🤭. You mean to tell me you’ve never eaten cake made with garri before? Wow!

Thank God all the “awww” and “God when” have subsided. We can now focus on reality things.

If you have good eyesight, I’m jealous of you. You might be seeing shege, but I’m seeing shege pro max 😭. One time, my lenses broke and I decided that I was done with glasses. That was the worstest decision I had ever made because the embarrassment it caused me was plenty. I still have not recovered from them. My memory will always find the slightest opportunity to remind me of my foolishness. I blame myself sha.

I’m thinking about my future and just like that I’m remembering that one time I opened a random dude’s car and sat in the passenger seat thinking it was someone else. The shock did not allow me to immediately jump out and flee so we stared at each other for a minute until I recovered myself and apologized. I was not the same person for an entire week. That has got to be the most embarrassing moment of my life. Nobody should ask me anything, me too I don’t know. The car was just at the right place at the right time and it was the same color with that of the person I was meeting—my then boyfriend. I had been waiting close to 10 minutes for the boy and my eyes deceived me that the car I saw pulling up was him 😭. The shape of their heads looked the same so I didn’t bother about facial features. My village people got me that day; village people 1, Samirah 0.

My stubborn head still did not get glasses so I couldn’t do small malpractice during exams. It’s not like I didn’t know anything or I didn’t read o. You get what I mean 😁 I suffered! Someone literally sitting next to me would show me their answers and I would be looking like mumu because B is looking like D and C is looking like E. I would only get lucky if I heard answers flying around. I dared not talk because I couldn’t tell when the invigilator was looking at me. I just did what I knew and left the rest to God. Sneaking in notes or anything in that form was totally out of the picture. Which eyes would I have used to read them?

People I know be thinking I’m ignoring them on purpose. I was making people think I was a bad person because I refused to wear glasses. “Samirah, you saw me and walked right past me, “you have money now and you can no longer recognize us”, “you’re feeling yourself, you’re forming”. Ah ah! Me like this? I have money? Ameen to that but it’s because I did not see you o, no vex. I’ve waved people back thinking they waved at me and I felt like disappearing, all because I was thinking they recognized me first. I wasn’t wearing glasses so i thought they were people I would know. I cannot be acting recklessly and embarrassing myself up and down like that. I can’t just talk to you without being sure it’s you nau. Entering that random guy’s car has taught me that much. Let’s assume I “ignored” you. Why did you ignore me? Shey you cannot talk to me. You just assumed that I’ve become a snub. You’re the snub 😒

The most recent embarrassment was when I fell inside gutter 😂. By now, I was already using my glasses frequently but I still felt I didn’t need it( sometimes my sense is not much like that). I went out without them, walking like I had the best pair of eyes in the world until I found myself knee deep inside gutter. The only thing that lessened my shame was that it happened in the night but people still saw me. I didn’t know how I reached my destination but I knew that I’ll never go out without my glasses again.

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I don’t know where you are but where I am, it is freezing. Will I be able to cope in Canada like this? 😏