THE MAN IN US
BY: Ifeoluwa Orimoloye
loveorims@yahoo.com

Once, my colleagues on a particular WhatsApp group page mentioned the criterion required for members to donate recharge card in commemoration of something, as reviewed by another member, suggestions started flowing, and like the kegites would say, members started vibrating.
"Send us recharge card,,,you won the heart of a new love? recharge!...celebrating your wedding? send the recharge!...You shoot your shot and won? recharge!, one man proposed to you? rechage!... We cannot be waiting for only birthday recharge cards this year", a member exclaimed.
And then, the motion was raised. Then came the announcement that the motion raised should be " commemorated" with a recharge card.
As funny as it was, this brought to my mind what a lot of us do to impress others, particularly the men.
The popular notion is that by default, men are required to toilin a bid to get the approval of women. Men sometimes tend toward the extreme by losing their senses in the process of asking a lady out.
And so, this is how it works...
Whenever that particular lady you've been stalking uploads a picture, you may be forced to say casually,
" Nice DP"
You may have done this not just to impress her, but to get her attention.
The lady, the object of the affection, having observed the 'lacuna' in your behavioral pattern would then simply say,
"Thanks"
You wouldn't want the discussion to end there and all in a bid to continue to stirr the discussion, you think of what else to say, all to no avail.
In the end, absently mindedly, you retorted,
"Congrats on your new dp..."
And the lady would respond with one awkward smiley like that.
That very moment, you would feel the burden of carrying the sins of the world...
That's why we say that "to be a man is not a day job"

As inspired by: Abiodun Iwaloye