Weekend!

The Weekend is just more than two days and maybe one night that signifies the end of a stressful, tasking, draining, and annoying-as-hell working week. It's all that, and then it is more. It's a state of being, it is a mindset, it is a vibe, it is a whole freaking mood.... ah maybe I'm just high from all the soft drinks in my system (say no to drugs) but I'm just very very happy at this point and nothing, absolutely NOTHING can change that.

I survived the first week of the new session, and I don't care what anyone thinks, that's a major flex for me. I'm still moving, I'm still functioning, and I'm doing relatively better than I was this time last week. I cannot help but feel really optimistic about the coming weeks and months as the semester starts for real.

So I think it's in order to take note of my inventory or something at this moment. Just a brief recap to know where I was and where I am now, what I had and what I have now - that sort of thing, Just to be clear or where I stand.

The first thing I'll need to buy at the moment is an umbrella. Forecasts have predicted that next week is going to be a rainy one, and I know I've been going on and on about the rains like a broken record, but picture yourself stuck in this limbo - right in the middle of your home, where you're coming from, and the destination you are headed.

AND THEN IT STARTS RAINING, HEAVILY.

Not like you saw the signs at home or anything, it was just a sunny day, quite humid too. And suddenly while you're outside, the clouds gather, the skies darken, and the temperature falls like the price of Bitcoin did a few months ago.

Almost as if someone was trying to spite you, huh?

There's only so much one's body can take, and if I don't want all the days of being drenched to start taking a toll on me, then I better get an umbrella soon.

Hopefully, I should be able to pay up the tuition fees in a week. Next week, that is. Not like there's a deadline - except you know when they do fix a deadline, but other course registrations and stuff have to go on, which means that if I don't pay the school fees, I can't register.

Which sounds like a well-crafted trap because there's no deadline to pay the fees, but then there's a deadline to pay the fees, you get my point? But anyway, I can't complain. It's school, nothing ever makes sense in it.

Our lectures are now taking place in a new lecture theatre, and it just turns out that I hate the place already and it may be a bit difficult to follow up lectures in one place. When we crossed over to the city campus of my school - as is the norm for medical students in their sophomore year - we used a big theatre that could take three different departments at once, keyword: comfortably.

But now, we're in our third year. There's a new set of sophomores, and they'll be the ones using that place.

This new lecture hall can't even take my whole department, which I'll admit is quite overpopulated at over 400 people. And if you don't come early enough, you may find yourself having to STAND at the back for lectures, which makes me ask: if these halls were built to handle only a relatively smaller capacity, why did the school admit far more than their facilities could handle?

But then, it's Nigeria. Nothing, and absolutely nothing, works as it should here.

One thing I do have to be thankful for, however, is that my friendships are pretty much intact. Maybe the difficulty was all in my head, and actually, it most likely was, because just a few discussions and jokes about the lecture, life, crypto, and our studies, and everything went back to normal. I guess I was too used to it anyway, but life really isn't as hard as we always expect it to be.

I'm also thankful that I didn't lose anyone I know, especially those close to me. Some students did die within the past month sadly, and it was just heartbreaking to see all that happening. Times and situations like this really tend to remind us that there's nothing in this life at all. All our aspirations, our goals, our dreams, and everything we're working ourselves up over - anyone could die any day and that would be the end of that.

It was a reality check that I needed even though it still stings. Enjoy yourself while you're still here. One day it'll be all gone, and maybe, just maybe before you die, you'll have a chance to think about all you've done. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't like regrets, and I think that would be the worst time to have any major regrets.

But hey, as I said, this is just a recap. A review of the past week. It's the weekend, it's only right to prepare for a new beginning. A fresh start/. And you can be assured I'm preparing for that with a new perspective on life.

Happy Weekend Everyone!

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What about you? How do you spend your weekends anyway? I'd be really interested to know, so you can leave comments below and drop a like if you enjoyed this article, thanks!