I live a very boring life. I don’t think I’m a boring person o… I just can’t afford to live the jet-setting, champagne-popping life that I think I am destined to live. My life is so uneventful that whenever I open my Uber app, before I type in the destination, only two addresses pop up; my church address and a friend’s office.
When there’s food at home, I can go days holed up in my room. Sometimes, to get fresh air and prove to my neighbours that I’m alive, I take an evening walk to one of the neighbourhood supermarkets where I am mistaken for a shop attendant and people ask me to help them find stuff. I have about four red t-shirts. Two of them are old and a bit worn so I use those for market runs, workouts and these long walks to the supermarket. Coincidentally, the supermarket staff also wear red t-shirts and that’s how I get tapped on the shoulder and asked where the powdered milk is.
Anyway, you know all the major life experiences right? The ones you’re expected to have in the course of your life;
- Graduate.
- Fall in love for the first, second or third time.
- Publish your first book. Start your own company.
- Get a chloroform-soaked towel, find a (single) man who gets your jokes and drag him down the alter.
- Have said man’s babies. Celebrate babies’ birthdays, graduation ceremonies, etc
As amazing as these experiences are, they are planned. You only know they are amazing because other people have told you about them.
An adjei experience is one that you don’t plan for. It is unexpected because you’re too cool for shit like that to happen to you. You’re too cool, too careful, living safe with your Uber church address. But the adjei experience… because it is so unexpected you are not prepared for how powerful it is, and this makes it all the more unforgettable.
It takes away the excitement, because, they are all planned, indeed. Powerful stuff! You hare much wiser than you rhealize, litto grawshopper
Lmao! Thank you sensei…