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Tuesday 30 April 2013

Thoughts about @Auunty's journey to Sarkodie

@Auunty Nafisa and Sarkodie
 Twitter-Nigeria was agog with news of a love letter written by a handler @Auunty to Ghana's B.E.T Award winner Sarkodie, @sarkodie, On February 28th, 2013.
    On 27th, April, Sarkodie launched a clothing line, SarkCollection at
Aphrodisiac Night Club, a few metres away from Sark shop in Dzorwulu, Accra. @Auunty, whose real name is Nafisa, travelled down to Ghana just for the launch... and their eventual meeting in the early hours of April 28th, exactly two months after the love letter went virile.

"I'm in love with you, a person who doesn't care to know how I feel. Sometime I ask myself if you'll ever get to see me or even understand how I feel...I've chosen to love you in silence but how long will the pain and sorrow last. I wish you could understand and see the fire that burns in my own private hell...now I can look in the mirror and tell myself that I am beautiful, things you'll never tell me because you might never be here...emotions run wild, my heart longs for you, without you my existence is worth nothing...I'll have to drop my pen here but I hope and pray you see this anyway".
Excerpts from @Auunty's letter to Sarkodie.

    I won't bother writing about the number of 'nays' and insults that greeted this letter on Twitter but one thing was admirable about her, unlike most Twitter users,when 'dissed', she never got into a fight with anyone who saw her as cheap for expressing her love for Sarkodie. She never stopped to listen to any dog that barked on her journey towards assuaging the fire that burnt within her.
Notably, also, is the fact that , at a time when she couldn't bottle up her feelings, she turned her Twitter timeline to a mini-shrine where she hero-worshipped her idol, Sarkodie. You want your tweet re-tweeted by her? Just tweet something nice about Sarkodie. She assumed the name Obidiwaa -whatever that means- to complement Sarkodie's Obidi. How much of a choice do we really have when our hearts make the choices.
   This, really, isn't about her meeting with Sarkodie because she loves him. This is about her making the effort to meet with Sarkodie against all odds because she wanted it that much. This is about persistence and stick-to-it-tiveness eventually paying off.
   Why am I not surprised by her will? She is an Aquarian, born in the month of love; of St Valentine, the Champion Lover. Aquarians possess the indomitable spirit of the achiever; they push, they persevere and they achieve, against all odds.
   To those who don't understand, her profession of  love to Sarkodie is unladylike. But she has immortalized her name in Sarkodie's love story. Whether he dates, marries her, or not, telling his love story won't be complete without the mention of @Auunty, just like Abraham Lincoln's political history isn't complete without mentioning the 11 years old American girl who grew his famous beard.
   @Auunty didn't set out to seduce him into liking her -she loves him enough for the two of them- she set out with a mind like a steel-trap, not ready to let go until she meets with him and quenches the burning embers in her heart. She went to the launch as simple as she possibly could have been, with a non-revealing orange-coloured, maxi gown, her natural hair, no weaves,and neck bare of all adornments. She isn't exactly about the fame that associating with Sarkodie will bring her, she seems to be doing good for herself without him. She was seen holding a BB Porsche in the picture that Sarkodie tweeted.
   The picture of them together that Sarkodie tweeted, reiterates the need to always be open, for if you are, people who usually are out to discredit you will have fewer weapons, if any, to do so. Because you would have, as they say, washed your dirty linen yourself in public, so no one can wash them for you with glee. Maybe, just maybe, bloggers would have had a field day if they had laid hands on that picture first before it showed up on their timeline.
   How much of our feelings do we bury because society may frown at our expressing them? In the end, we make others happy at the expense of our own happiness and fulfilment. Life is all about choices; personal choices that determine how far you go in life; how happy you make yourself; how you can set yourself free from societal and gender shackles. It's all about making the you you go to bed with at night happy despite what others think.
If only more of the time we will listen to our inner voices more; to NEVER be afraid to experiment; to take that path which seems unsure; to be single-minded in what we want; to stop deceiving and displeasing ourselves because we are afraid of what people will say. We forget that people will talk anyhow - whether we  live exactly as they want us to, or not.

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