It’s Tony’s birthday party, another night to prove who I am. A playboy.
The party had been burning with drinks, and with the soothing aura of the interlude that lasted for a while. My eyes kept wandering around as I peered through the crowd, counting heads and scanning faces. I paused within a few minutes. My search for a pretty girl hit luck. There stood a olive skin girl in pink dapper gown. Her face gleamed through the white glow in the room like a molted skin.
I can feel my eyes almost tumbling in their oars as I started trudging into the familiar realm. Alcohol. But not that close. I was still yet to spell drunk completely. I only had a few dose of beer in the streams within my skin.
Back to the girl. Everything on me started jolting toward her. Her sight kept me fighting within to control my breath but I managed to take a deep breath and went to talk to her.
Many words rushed into my mind as I approached, with confidence and gladness boldly written on my face, “hi. I’m Menyene Ekong and I’m not a bad person.”
“I’m Gloria. If you’re so good why don’t you keep and stick to a girl?” she remarked.
I was fazed and her question drooped my wings of confidence, “how come she knows me this much as a go-getter in this phase?” my mind started wandering, “she must have been following me on Facebook.”
She turned to her right and moved hurriedly to leave me just before I could gather much gumption to spew more unfaithful words. Then she got into a jam. She crashed into someone. Her weary old very low budget phone hit on the ground. Before I could say Jack she crouched down to pick it up.
“A pretty girl like you wouldn’t want to use this kinda phone.”
“I’m not like others," she rejoined. “I will get a better phone someday."
Eigh!
Then I thought the time was right for me to use some of the antics I had learnt, to pump more words into her ears while waiting for her affections to rise up to her throat. I chose to push on hoping she could look kindly on me.
“I can get you a new and better phone right now if you wouldn't mind.”
She whisked away and left her phenomenal response in my mind all day, “RIGHT NOW can be the two most seductive words to others not me."
*****
Are these words still seductive to you?
Are you still living in the realm of RIGHT NOW gratification?
People (both sexes) have been fooled each minutes, hours and days by these two words.
It’s against our wishes that we cannot get everything in just a day. We’ve got to embrace it. Then plant, cultivate before harvesting.
Be like Gloria!