Before You Decide, See Me!
My cousin graduated recently with a law degree and, if I am honest, it touched the nerves I have been trying to ignore. I am proud of my cousins for making it. At the same time, I was embarrassed about where I am in my own life. That is not easy to admit, but it is the truth. Right now, I am unemployed. When people ask, I say I am freelancing. The reality is that freelancing means I work some days and other days I do not. I spend my time searching for gigs while also applying for full time roles, hoping that one application lands in front of someone willing to look beyond a checklist and see the person behind the paper. At my cousin’s graduation party, another cousin asked how my writing career was going. I replied that it was well, even though my words exposed the state I am in. In 2021, we went to Ibadan for a family getaway and I wrote on a mood board in our hotel that I would be a successful copywriter whose works would be framed in a book and sold. Think of it as an...
