IT COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE BUT YOU CAN COUNT IT AS SOMETHING

On the 20th of April. I woke up that day in a hurry to attend to my mother whose voice was what woke me up in an instant. 

I jumped out of bed and started the day full of energy and some tasks to take care of and from her. 

The second task was to go and collect something she had ordered and had been kept for her. She was asked to send anyone to get it.

I would have gone in the morning when the sun was not yet up but I lazed around till the sun was up.

I stepped out under the hot sun thinking from the description of the place it wouldn't be that far but to my greatest amazement when I got to a place I needed to ask for directions, that made me nearly give up because of how far I had to go to get there. To make matters worse there are fewer or zero public means of transportation to aid one's movement.

I was like give up and go back, the task at hand kept ringing in my head like a desire to be satisfied.

I brazed myself and started the journey. I could feel the heat of the scorching sun from my head down to my feet. I looked at my skin and could see how it was glowing due to the heat and reflection of the sun.

I kept moving with my eyes fixed on a lady in front of me walking cautiously taking her time to cover each distance. I said she must be from where I was heading to.

For a moment I took my eyes off her and the next time I saw her there she was seated under a tree making a phone call. Wondering why she was sitting there, it dawned on me she was taking a break. The shade and the breeze from under that tree seemed so refreshing and tempting to join her for a minute but I kept going, following the route I was given description to follow.

The journey continued, as I was about to negotiate a bend there came the lady who was resting under the tree - she overtook me and kept walking in the front. After negotiating the bend I saw a guy sitting under a tree resting. He bent his head as if he was sleeping. She passed the guy but looked back as if checking what could be wrong with this dude.

We passed him and kept walking. Then boom there came a point where the road parted into three leading to three different directions and the instruction given to me was to follow the major road and you’ll see the place to your right.

I was trying to figure out what to do and no one was there for me to ask for directions. I looked at the direction the lady headed and I followed. She gave me a distance but I could see the corner she took. I reached a point where the lady had arrived at her destination but I kept walking and there in front of me I saw an elderly woman I asked her for the description - she just turned and pointed to my right saying there it is. I looked and indeed there it was looking at me in the face - that was when it dawned on me that I had taken the longest route to get there.

I finished what I was to do and started following the original route to get out of there.

On my way out I began to process some things. I realized I’d never been here - I had no idea that such a place existed and the environment looked busy but the feeling of serenity enveloped me. 

Every place has an energy and the energy I felt there was that of connection and locality. I can’t fully explain the calibre of people there, but it felt like they see themselves.

As I was processing these I reached the tree where the guy we passed was sitting and the spot was empty. I didn’t think twice I just sat there to take a break and trust me it took me some minutes to refuel to continue with the journey. I said to myself now I know the importance of why that lady took a break under the first tree.

The journey to and fro was something else but I can count it as something because the experience and feeling that came with it were new and exciting to have found about a place like that.

Sometimes one can pass through an experience and testify it was something else but the best part should be that you can count it as something.

Don’t always see the difficult aspect of that roller-coaster experience, also feel the part that comes with discovery or that new feeling that it leaves you with.

Amidst the heat, (experience of life) there’s a deep feeling that can make you smile only when you search for it.