JUST STOP, PLEASE!

I boarded a bus on my way to work this morning (the popular danfo) and the driver had all the trappings of a person that smoked Indian hemp (popularly called igbo).

He made sure he didn't stop at any bus stop that he promised his passengers he would and he had such a foul mouth, you feel like leaving your fist mark on his face.

That is not much of an issue for me anyways, because in Lagos, you must be used to them by now except you are JJC (ask someone what that means, LOL). The most exciting part is when we got to Maryland (My popular Maryland, I must have written about it in half of all I wrote on my blog by now *coversface*), the notorious traffic light takes at least 10 minutes of your time (I and a colleague calculated it once). Trust my igbo infected friend, he switches to the fast lane and goes into the Independence Tunnel, drives towards KICC makes the U-turn and heads back to Maryland (YES, back to Maryland).

All in a bid to beat the traffic light that assuredly will take just about 10 minutes, we ended up in another traffic that we spent about 15 minutes. The unapologetic driver meandered the tiny streets in Wasimi and felt satisfied with his dumb decisions. We ended up in the same traffic he thought he was going to avoid.

In life, STOPS are important. We become so busy that we all seem to switch to the fast lane of life in a bid to make money, fame, and the goodies that we think will make our lives better. Some of us are so busy we hardly see our children, family (nuclear and extended), relatives and even hardly visit our religious place of worship.

Just Stop, Please. Consider this! If you don't stop when your body can accept it, your body will stop you and force you to accept it. I hope it won't be the kind of stop that will make family and friends weep; That Final STOP!

So if you have finished schooling and have no job, or you are due to marry and have no spouse, or you just lost a job, lost a  loved one, lost a phone, got a divorce (not self-caused), got evicted from your home, duped of your precious belongings, or...

Whatever it is that happened to you, trust me, it's just a STOP. Life places those things in the way itself to help us have a place to take a recap after making a turn from the fast lane. Learn how to STOP when necessary.

Atoloye Folahan