The Journey Home

(From Lenses, a student of Covenant University currently on IT)
     One thing I prayed for as I packed my belongings ready to go home after the end of work was that at least my boss will offer to give me a ride halfway to make my journey easy but she zoomed off before i was done. So I guessed I was actually on my own. When I was finally ready to leave the office, no one offered to give me a ride (I don't blame them sha, who gives a guy a ride in Nigeria??). So that's how I began my journey back home from Lekki where my office is situated with my leg as I didn't have enough money for transport


       On my way home, I saw various things that called my name loudly. Places that I would't have noticed if I was seated in a car or a bus, I began to notice them. They were all enticing me but my pocket was mocking me because as much as I wanted to go, I couldn't because I didn't have the financial swag to make the move so I was just gazing as cars rolled into eateries, domino's pizza, ouch store and da silva. I kept drooling over what I saw and I couldn't stop wondering weather the men that do come here don't have food to eat at home....If only I could just get a bite of Domino's Pizza.....
       "Oga, u no dey go?" I heard the conductor screaming frantically looking for passengers and I jolted out of my fantasies wishing and hoping that one day I will get an opportunity to enter into that place. If ohnly this conductor knew my predicament, he will stop directing me to enter his bus. The journey home continued and the road seems to stretch farther and farther and I began to wonder if this is how it seems when you are trekking especially trekking alone? I passed through different categories of people and all seems to be hustling home to their loved ones. I trekked to some extent where the amount of money on me was finally able to take me home....But the journey home was indeed not one to repeat again..

Lekki Expressway