
What will you remember? RHETORICS
You may have little power over how you will be remembered when you are gone, but you do have a lot of say in what you will remember before you are gone.
A question-based write-up, filled with inter-connected rhetorical questions.
You may have little power over how you will be remembered when you are gone, but you do have a lot of say in what you will remember before you are gone.
Do these fellas know they could have saved all of us five seconds by just going straight to the cables rather than toying with keys?
Or does the key serves a purpose the rest of us are not aware of?
Time and again, I have come to a crossroad, and had to make a choice; to know or not to know?
Some say ignorance is bliss. How true is this?
Have you witnessed someone hurt themselves because they don’t know better?
When they ask you, why do you trust him this much?
Are there no better men out there?
Is he down for the long haul as you are?
I want you to tell them, “all the feelings I’ve got for him, he’s got it twice and over for me.”
When a governor announces that he has built 10 roads totaling 350 kilometers, at the rate of 5 million Naira per kilometer, no one asks how many people use that road daily. Nor where does the road lead to and what economic benefit it serves.
First things first, who misplaced the X? Why should I be looking for something I do not know how it got missing? And why does X keep getting missing?
Is the teacher that careless? Or are they just being mischievous?
Follow who know road, I ended up going far, except that I was heeded in the wrong direction. I had to retrace my steps to start all over again. Wasn’t I better off having never made the journey?
At what point do you start wishing you had never met someone? Or better yet, to just unknow them?
The friend that is never happy for you, in a hurry to minimize your achievements, that sees nothing you do as worthy of celebration.
There is a startling revelation that dawned on me recently.
How do you pronounce cabbage? But how does your neighbour pronounce it? And how does the seller pronounce it?
Every December, you threaten to cut people off. Every January, you announce you have done it. How come by the next December there are always more people awaiting your blade or cutlass?
How can I do this? How much do I even have in my account? How much does she think I earn monthly?
I would have just given up and moved on to the next girl, but this is the love of my life we are talking about here. Will you have let her go if you were in my shoes?
Looking back at that whole incident now, I can’t help but wonder, was Junior really “Junior”?
Do you know what I mean?
I know what I saw, but can I trust my childhood memories?
On a second thought, how many Junior are not really “Juniors”?
As I hear you brushing your teeth from a mile away, I can’t help wondering, are you trying to kill yourself?
I hear the screaming and gurgling, it sounds just like murder, do you even like yourself?
The power of the nose cannot be over quantified, but have you heard a Yoruba person say “Imu nika, koje ka gbo orun asebi”?
After spending a good deal of time thinking on it, I had to send her a message asking who does that?
As in who are they? what did they do? And should they be prepping for a fight?
Are friends not meant to lift each other up, show one another the way, and be sources of respite, refreshment, and resources for one another?
You saw her, she was drop-dead gorgeous, her voice was like music to your ears, you were satisfied.
You walked up to her, you gave her your fire lines, you were really poetic, alas, she was not satisfied.
There is a saying that accompanies a story I read as a kid. “While Rome burned, Nero fiddled”. Is that the best way to describe Nigeria and her leaders?
Mr Ballot Box Snatcher, what’s up?
You have been paid to go on another snatching spree, you have been instructed on which polling station to disturb, you have picked your accomplices, please tell me, is it worth it?
How much is a dream worth? How much should a future be sold for? Even Martin Luther King and his dream, how much was it worth?
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