WHEREVER YOU ARE

I think for the first time, I should come out plain to confess that I have made frantic efforts to locate you. The fact that I haven’t seen you does not necessarily make me feel I am a failure nor that I would never get to locate you; it’s just a question of time.

Before we finally meet, there are certain things you may want to know and these things, I promise to be as explicit as possible. I don’t guarantee you’d understand all in any case so let me add that I would provide answers to your questions. All depends on whether or not we would meet. Oh yes, I know we surely will.

I am a young man that defies almost all characteristics of contemporary men. My style is dinstinct and that defines me. Certains things about me, I would not drop. I don’t intend to be rigid but those things are me and once they go, you can be sure it’s something else you have and not me.

So many other things are about me probably because you haven’t arrived; as soon as you show up, we can make a list and shed the ones you are not comfortable with. Trust me, I’ll go that far. What is important is; you have finally come to stay.

I am sure you also would have certain changes you intend to put in place as I have my expectations too. Just as I would understand these traits are products of more than 2 decades and would not expect you to adjust on the fly, I would appreciate if you also oblige me such gesture. What particularly matters is the will and conscious efforts being put into the process.

Nothing at all tells me you don’t exist. I know you do. I probably haven’t looked at the right direction or when I looked at that side, you weren’t there. The good thing is, I am likely to look back at that direction so, I hope you’ll there to be seen.
Efforts certainly are of no measurable significance until the end justifies them. You are the ‘end’ here; if I haven’t located you all these while, then I have not done enough. Period!

Could it also be that I have already seen you and walked away from you? This is a possibility no doubt but the chances are quite slim. I am very vigilant and careful about you. Should it however be that I have missed you probably because you were in the crowd cheering me and must have being missed by a wave of the hand, it’s a sad one but I’d come back. You are just one bridge I must cross.

Events of recent times have proven your importance beyond human comprehension and I have humbly mentioned you to God. It’s about time you come out of your shells. I can’t wait any longer.

You might feel this way too and also share the same spirit but don’t see yourself coming all out to say it. We have all felt this way at one time or the other so it would make no difference to me and I would understand. As much as you want to massage your own ego, please understand you have to be fast about it.

There is another way out and I sincerely hope it works. I probably might not have even looked into your possibilities as a result of so many distractions that rock the life of a young man that I am. I would have my trusted eyes to join me in the search. These eyes are such that understand my quest and whose judgement I don’t probe into. Theirs is a respect earned from a relationship built over a period of a decade or more. Now you know what I am talking about.

We both must have had our pasts, failures and successes. They have their places in the future we hope to build together but should get a fair judgement as to what made them what they were.

We were just exhuberant and restless individuals whose attachment to life fantacies beclouded our senses of judgement. That is one interesting thing about growing up. You always feel your actions are right, readily putting up strong defense for them. After about a year or less, you look back and smile because a simple message strikes you and its print on your mind is screaming: I SHOULD HAVE DONE IT BETTER.

That is a sign that you have matured into a right thinking fellow and that’s about what I have always wanted. This sense of refined judgement gives me very little or no reasons to dwell on your past, everything that happened must have happened for a reason and one of the very many reasons is for us to be where we are today. You are assured of such indulgence.

I have no manifesto to present nor do I have promises to make. I have no mansion to boast of nor limousines to drive you around but I have something you have been looking for; A GOOD HEART and a SELFLESS SPIRIT...

The future exerts no fear for it is prepared by Him in whom our fate resides. What is left is for us to journey into it together as one.

It’s being a torturous time threading this path alone, the thoughts of hard times are better shared and the sweet memory of success jointly celebrated. What else can we ask for besides such faithful compatriot. A comrade bound by a well thought-out heart desire and not oath. A Union ordained and blessed by God.

There are so many things to do, we are a little behind time. We can’t afford to wait any longer. Let’s begin this journey, the future is waiting. Please come out; wherever you are!