Hey. I'm sorry, okay? I was late and I have no excuse. Not that I didn't want to post, but I was unsure about this content. Forgive me?
How do you feel when you see an old classmate? Do you go, "shit, I knew I shouldn't have gone out"? Or, "heyyy buddy"? Well for me, it depends on who I see. This guy was telling me about how he saw his old classmate when he went out. While he was talking, it was obvious that he wasn't pleased. I asked him why he had an unpleasant expression. Then he went on to talk about how ugly and unappealing his crocs was and how he should have worn his "20k" slides. It didn't even help that the classmate was a girl. Most of us are like my guy here.
I also had a similar experience last week. I was well dressed (as usual 😌). I saw my secondary school classmate but I didn't want her to notice me because I didn't think I was going to be acknowledged. I'm loved at home, nobody should come and stain my neat white.
These and many more are the reasons we hate to see our former classmates. But you can never tell what their expression would be. If you choose to ignore them, they'll assume you've suddenly became proud and you've started seeing them as a "nobody". If you actually acknowledge them, you're "showing off." But there's a way you can actually walk up to them and not make them feel less of themselves.
I've finally finished reading "a broken people's playlist" by Chimeka Garricks. Here's a review from Google 👇
“The theme we see from the beginning of the book woven throughout the narrative is loss. Unlike most other short story collections that are very different stand-alone stories cobbled together by a singular theme or location, the interconnectedness of the stories in A Broken People’s Playlist is so complex that one cannot shake the feeling that each story occurs almost simultaneously from different perspectives of people whose lives are deeply intertwined. That, I think, is the best part of this collection.
Each story is inspired from a song, with the first story inspired by Adam Levine’s Lost Stars (A personal favorite). I was curious to see how well the song translated into prose. I wondered: did the pace match, the lyrics as opposed to the plot, the emotion the song evokes, was all of that translated? When art transcends mediums, important aspects can sometimes get lost in translation. So I was curious, I listened to each song from which the inspiration sprung before I read each story with a healthy amount of skepticism. Brethren, I was shocked… in a good way. Each story matched the song, pace, lyrics and emotion easily. To me, the best story out of the collection is “In The City” inspired by Brymo’s song of the same title. That is not to say that each story in this collection isn’t a gem…”(www.masobebooks.com)
I'll be reading "the girl with the louding voice" by Dare Abi next week.
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What a great piece of article. Tbh I generally don’t have time to read these days but this article caught my attention from the start. I am really impressed with your writing style hun so keep it up beautiful ✌🏾
I really don't mind running into any of my classmates because I would be genuinely happy to see that they're actually progressing. It's the stupid ones that want to feel "fly" that we should be worried about.