I, me and myself.

I feel so unmotivated to write an article today and one of the reasons I am writing one right now is because I would definitely end up feeling better after doing so because I challenged myself to write an article a day. I don't want myself to think that I am not up to the task asn end up mocking me when I am sleeping. You see,

"I" and "Me" are what everyone sees at the surface, while "myself" is buried deep down and only God and I knows about "myself". I can't risk allowing "myself" to be exposed or become vulnerable to others, they are better off with "I" and "Me".

Part of the inspiration I got for this article was @Marinov article "Sunday mourning" where she talked about how songs can stir up buried emotions or those feelings we think have faded away. It is 10:30pm here in Nigeria and as usual, I listen to some good music while sipping anything cold drink ranging from soft drinks to the locally made "kunu", anything that keeps my throat wet. I had already given up on writing an article today when I came across NF's song "INTRO III" that struck all cords in my body. Now I should say I am not normally a fan of rap music but NF's music always speaks to me in different ways. All his songs are relatable to me. You might understand what I am talking about if you take time to listen to the song :

In this song,NF seems to be having a conversation between him and himself. I can't really tell whom is whom though but the music seems like a conversation between his childhood self, a self created by some childhood experience and has grown with him. I will refer to this childhood self as "him". Since our childhood experiences and challenges do not necessarily define who we are it can't be "himself". Go get to understand more when you hear the song.

Now what I am trying to say is that we as humans have some other identity we are afraid of exposing. It doesn't mean being fake or anything if you're hiding that identity, it might just be a means of protecting ourselves. Sometimes some of us get unlucky with this identity we try so much to protect. It may be torturing some of us. Some of us are happy with it as it lits us up when we are down. While others have simply made a compromise with this identity and are just living with it on equal terms.

The relationship I have with my "Myself" can be likened to that of an elder and younger sister. They love each other but may act as though they hate each other. Haha. I am very sure she's disappointed seeing this or even disappointed because I got myself to finally write something but she will still be happy in the end.

Yay!

I am done.

Well... Seriously I don't know whether to call this an article or a short post seeing how short it is. But at least I wrote something today so I guess I kept the promise I made to "Me" right?

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This brings us to the end of this article.

What kind of relationship do you have with "yourself?". Do you consider "you" as "I", "me" or "myself?".

I would love to see your comments.

Thanks to all my readers for reading this piece.

Yours Layly,

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The time is 10:47pm now. It's night already. Bye for now.