Life is Script

Life is Script...is it?

Coming from a small city, I recall my first trip to Oshodi Lagos.
Alighting from the bus, I was frozen stiff seeing thousands of people and vehicles moving in every direction like bees at such speed.
Hundreds on the pedestrian bridges, hundred crossing the roads,hundreds on the rail lines, hundreds fighting for a few bus seat in moving buses, twice more wrestling to hang off the doors, hundreds preaching and selling medicines, hundreds hawking and hundreds buying, the last hundreds reaching into other people's bags and pockets.


I only managed to flash into consciousness by the impact of a person bumping into me, then another and another. Then came fear, every where was spinning, my leg felt numb and I was about to fall. I found myself faced in a different direction.
I'd lost my sense of direction, and I became scared of being trampled like a pea on the floor.

I took my backpack of my back and embraced it. I know what the place is about.

Stood still, shot my eyes, mumble my mantra a few times and opened my eyes.
The images stabilised, my feet became solid on the ground. I looked up, blind to obstacles and distraction, found my way.
I found my confidence and matched forward to pick my next bus.

Lately, it's all motion these days, swift random motion; the city, the lights, the screens, the people, I, my thoughts, my worries, my career, my start-ups, my patience, even my temper.

Though I try to guide these dots, all I do is try. They tread like Shoaling and schooling fishes in the vast grey.
Like day, there are patterns, but hard to trace, and harder to predict.

I held still, shot my eyes, mumble my mantra a few times and opened my eyes.
The images didn't stabilise, my feet no longer feel so strong on the ground. I look up, try to blind the obstacles and distraction, but felt adrift.
I still have my confidence though, and I will match forward in any direction my Chi points, to pick my next bus.

And they say "life is a script"? Well I'd say the script is dynamic, so just keep modifying your algorithms till you hit it.

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