If I had a super power

I have been asked this question so many times over the years and even though my answer would change ever so often I think I eventually picked one. I started off wanting to be the cheeky spiderman. Then I changed my mind and decided that I wanted to be the all in one superman and then there was my batman phase. Come on he was super cool but finally I realized that there was only one real superpower I wanted. The power to fly!!! It wasn’t like I was going to be fighting bad guys so why not use my powers to benefit myself. Taking out the cost of plane tickets I could go on as many trips as I wanted. Just think this weekend Brazil, the next Spain and maybe eventually Australia.

But right now I am not so sure, if I had a super power right now, honestly I would just want the power to duplicate myself. I think I would want like 2 to 3 clones. I can hear some of you asking me why already, so ok grab some popcorn; let me tell you a story.

So before I decided to say I do, there were two things I was not worried about the first well let’s not go there, maybe one day I will write about that. But let us just say I was so wrong about that. The second, well the second was my ability to “keep a house”.

When I was 13 my mother did the cruelest bestest thing to the entire family, she got rid of the maid. So within the blink of an eye my days of lounging on Saturday mornings and having everything done for me was over!!!. I loathed loved my mother for this and without much of a choice had to adjust to the new regime. I did this so well that when I began a new adventure at the age of 16, keeping a house was no big deal, I was proud to say “I gat this.”

The next 10 years just proved my point I had gone from living alone to living with family to moving back to the family home and each move was without a maid. People nobody was badder than me, I was the queen of keeping a house. So if this is true why is it that now I feel like this big medium small house, is disgracing me and winning? Like honestly there are not enough hours in the day to keep this annoying thing clean.

What happened to all my skills, they can’t have just disappeared? Ok I think it is time to be like inspector gadget and do some investigations. Let’s start at the beginning, when I was 13, yes there was no maid but if I am honest there was Uncle Friday who did the laundry (ironically on Fridays :D) and Uncle Johnson who did all the driving and there was Iya Wale who well help with most of the shopping so really I wasn’t doing much. Ok bad example onto the next one.

When I moved out, let’s be very critical I really was only responsible for myself and one room, while at college one room, at university one room, even when I moved back with my siblings I was responsible for one room and myself. This is not looking good.

Ok when I moved back into the family house, I did a lot more there. Well yes but then there was Mr Abbey who did most of the shopping and 60% of the driving, the other 30% was done by hubby then boyfriend. Then there was Uncle Charles who not only did the laundry but cleaned the house too and then was Umoru who did the gardening, menial tasks in the house and well made sure I never had to open or close the gate. So really I did almost nothing!!!

Choi!!!!! How exactly did I once believe I was really good at keeping a house, I clearly have no experience. It is looking like I am going to need atleast one Uncle Charles and Mr Abbey to survive, this life is clearly too hard. I can’t even keep nail polish on my fingers. What!!! A girl can dream.

I can change

So a friend of mine and I were having this thought provoking conversation about how we are both super stars in turning up late for everything. And I mean literally everything, you name it and I will be late. The most classic one (or one of the most classic ones, there are too many to choose from) is being late for a boat party and being responsible (or partly I was not the only one late) for the boat having to veer off course and head back to shore. Yes I am important like that.

It is not like I want to be late; I really do start off with good intentions but then somehow the evil fairy that makes children lose track of time sprinkles her fairy dust on me and then what do you know I am running late.

This has happened so many times that another friend sent this to me.

Now I would be and I should be so upset but the problem is that this is beyond true so I just gave in and signed my name at the bottom of the page. However, having this conversation with the first friend let’s say friend A, got me thinking, is it possible to free myself from the evil clutches of the late fairy. According to friend A, person is still capable to accomplishing a 360 degree turn in their character so we should not give up.

Now I can completely relate to friend’s A thinking, I myself have experience 360 degree changes in myself, sometimes these changes are small, others are big and others actually change the core of who you are as a person. But there was a common denominator in all these changes; “The occurrence of an event.” Think it about there usually is one life altering event that takes place that finally makes a person want to change.

But then what if there is no event, does this mean that I will not be able to change, does this mean that the age old saying that “A leopard can never change his spots” comes true. Will I be a late colored leopard and what will a late colored leopard look like… I imagine it will be bright a mixture of yellows, oranges, blues, reds and a dash of black. Ok that just sounds like a neon rainbow. The leopard will probably just be red… Ok red and black I can live with that

So what do you guys think, can a person change without a life altering event or does something mega dramatic have to happen. In my case maybe finally missing my flight and having to pay something like $2000 will set me straight… hmmmm… maybe.

I would also like to know what you guys think a late colored leopard will look like. Let’s be as creative as a toddler … This is me out!!!