LET ME GO

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Merely seeing this topic, what came through your mind? A boy? A girl? That toxic relationship? If yes, I’m sorry but I’m actually laughing at you right now. Forgive me! Maybe I shouldn’t because having to let go of something dear can be painful but do you know what is much more painful? Letting the situation take the number one spot in your head to the point where you assume every discussion is about it.

This piece isn’t about that fellow who just served you breakfast or who you are in fact thinking of serving a very hot breakfast. Abeg, you’ve tried. It’s time you tell that toxic soul “Let me go’. 

So Funke, what is this “LET ME GO” piece about oo? After being away for almost three years, your plan is to come back for perambulation, right?

There you go! I apologize for the too long break and now that you’ve mentioned it, that is exactly what the basis of this piece would be. 

Have you ever been in a position where everything seems right and at the same time seems wrong? A situation where you lose something and you also think you have found it? A scenario of you wanting something so bad, then you find it and at the same time, it appears as though you have found nothing?
And now, you start to tell yourself that you are the most confused being on earth. But NO, let me break it to you… You are not confused; you have only stepped into that “dilemma” stage of your life. You are not the first to feel this way and you definitely won’t be the very last. 

Now Hold Up! That was me for the best part of 2019 – 2021. I was so confused that even my wins felt like losses to me and like you, in my head, every discussion was about my struggles and every question was assumed to be about my confusion (in my head). Slow down! You are missing something and that is my use of “was” while telling you what went down those years. So yeah, this is a piece written from the no longer confused Funke (I wish you could see my grinning teeth right now). 

Well, good for you Funke but here I am reading this with my sad face and worried heart, dwelling in that “dilemma” stage of my life. What do I do? 

Hey! Things with the most awesome results are always disguised in controversial boxes. They seem unfathomable and impossible but, in the end, they are always the easiest to come by. As much as the walls seem like they are crumbling, permit me to tell you that they are all in your head and in how you’ve let your mind receive the present state you are in. 

You are engrossed with the situation, looking at everything going wrong and not even caring about what is going right. You don’t even think there is any strength left in you, not to talk of considering building that strength. Let me break it to you… You need to “Think and Stay” on the bright side of the road.
If you are on your way to the living room and the lights go off but there is a little reflection of light coming from your kitchen, you will try your best possible to use that reflection from the kitchen to find your way to the living room and then, find a way to light up the room. 

Same way there is a reflection of light in your life right now and all you have to do is follow that reflection, forget about the dark room and find a way to light up where you are going while following that reflection on your way there. 
Yes, you will doubt your intelligence, doubt your capacity, doubt your awesomeness and even doubt your humanity. Lol, the feeling is sh*t, I know, but it isn’t a better sh*t than you giving in to the double-minded dunce in your head that is ready to take over from being a tenant into being a landlord. 

Can you go back to rewrite the past? No! Can you quickly teleport to the future to see what it looks like? No! Are you here right now? Yes? So, Dwell in the now, Live in the present. You’ve got the situation under control, don’t put yourself in a further controversial situation, just live you and BE HAPPY.
Life can be a bed of roses, anything can, as long as you let it. Tell that double-minded dunce in your head LET ME GO.

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  1. Unknown9 April 2022 at 12:06

    Amazing read, dwell in the now, live and be happy. So profound. Please keep writing😊

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