Natasha: I’ve arrived at the NYSC office and the state coordinator has stepped out [again] *angry emoji*

Natasha: No one knows when she’ll be back

Wendelyn: Oh my days!!! I would be beyond livid!

Natasha: http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/

Natasha: uh huh! I am pissed off

Wendelyn: What will you do now?

Natasha: I have camped out in front of her door

Wendelyn: Hahahaha top girl!!!

Natasha: I’m reading articles and my books

Wendelyn: Lol make yourself comfortable!

Natasha: I have oh!

Wendelyn: Loool you need to blog about this experience

Wendelyn: Too funny

Wendelyn: I’m living vicariously through you

Natasha: I need to. These people are piss takers

Natasha: Lol!

Natasha: Let me send you a photo

Natasha: *Photo of tattered three-legged chair*

Natasha: Waiting chair for NYSC corpers

Natasha: It has 3 legs o

Natasha: It’s not a visual trick

Natasha: The last one at the back is actually missing

Wendelyn: Oh lord 😂😂😂

Wendelyn: Is this life???

Natasha: It is for some people. This must be why they are so miserable

Natasha: How can this be your environment and you will be happy?! They know Corpers are going to leave them here in this hell hole so
they’re like, “Experience this with me!! Be miserable too!”

Wendelyn: You’re totally right

Wendelyn: But how is this ok?! It’s better not to even have a chair at all

Natasha: Right? ??

Natasha: Just throw it away

Wendelyn: Lol I can’t even deal

Natasha: Another photo for you

Natasha: *Photo of people crowded around an unconscious man*

Natasha: I thought the guy passed out from an asthma attack as they were putting an inhaler to his mouth

Wendelyn: Lol you’re clearly getting the best of Port Harcourt

Natasha: I called one of the lady’s from the NYSC office

Natasha: Like, “See o!!!”

Wendelyn: Lol please I’m afraid to hear the end of this story

Natasha: “This man has fainted!”

Natasha: She was like, “Is it a corper?”

Wendelyn: Hahahahahahahaha

Natasha: Then she came and saw him

Wendelyn: And hissed?

Natasha: Then she went “Pshhhhhh!”

Natasha: Uh huh!

Wendelyn: Lol I guessed it

Natasha: “Na our staff, he is a drunkard!”

Wendelyn: Hahahahahahahaha

Wendelyn: Hilarious!!!!!!

Natasha: “This is how he is normally. We don talk to am tire! But I tink na someone do am”

Wendelyn: Of course!

Natasha: “Becos no be normal tin!”

Natasha: NIGERIA!! 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

Natasha: We hail thee

Natasha: No one is concerned about his mental health. It MUST be a spiritual thing

Wendelyn: Looooool and this story is repeated in millions of variations around the nation

Wendelyn: The cause is clear

Wendelyn: Not everyone can imagine that at 40something their life involves reporting to an office with a three legged seat and ignorant colleagues

Wendelyn: That is enough to drive a man to drink

Natasha: Of course!!

Wendelyn: But no, it must be the witch in his village fanning herself with his picture

Natasha: Especially if you are (perhaps) an intelligent person

Natasha: You will be frustrated

Natasha: You cannot get out of your circumstances without selling your soul or morals

Wendelyn: Yeah and that can really push someone over the edge

Natasha: Exactly.

Natasha: I was watching Discovery channel and they were talking about this parrot that comes across as antisocial

Natasha: But it’s only because he’s highly intelligent and overly curious

Natasha: So he acts out. He needs his mind to be active/challenged

Wendelyn: Lol a parrot that was thought of as antisocial…and is not a character in an Enid Blyton.

Wendelyn: Lol

Wendelyn: So how did they challenge his mind?

Natasha: This was a wild parrot they were filming

Natasha: so he used to fly to the human camps and open the dustbins

Natasha: peck at the cars

Natasha: peck at the people

Natasha: Look at stuff with his side eye

Natasha: Lol! just causing mayhem

Natasha: It was funny

Natasha: It’s called a Kea parrot

Wendelyn: Lol I will google it. Just reading the article you sent

Wendelyn: It’s so funny she [the author] says that people act as though wanting a family enough to make job sacrifices for it is looked
at so badly

Wendelyn: The world is very funny. Everything that is wholesome and good, we are subtly taught to view with scepticism and even mockery

Wendelyn: Raising a human being to the point of sound moral character and integrity is actually the best and hardest contribution anyone
can make to the human race. And has the potential to do the most damage to the world if done badly, or the most good if done well

Natasha: Exactly

Wendelyn: After all, “guns don’t kill people, rappers do”

Wendelyn: Like hitler was a person not a policy or a tool

Natasha: It is this short term thinking over long term. Me instead of We

Natasha: Yes the jobs are important but will the world really grind to a halt if you don’t answer that email right now?

Natasha: Look at nigeria!

Natasha: Exactly

Natasha: Re: hitler

Wendelyn: It’s very funny because I was just thinking the other day how in the bible it says that “We are not unaware of the wiles of
the devil” we often think that evil is obvious but it’s not. It’s subtle and insidious

Wendelyn: I was watching this show on Lifetime and it’s about these young women that are thinking of being nuns

Wendelyn: And I just shook my head because the way the show had been edited, you could see that the underlying purpose was for viewers to consider people with religious leanings of any sort as extremists.

Natasha: The value a la mode is individualism

Wendelyn: These are young women who are referring to themselves as brides of Christ but it was filmed in a way that some bits made some of the girls sound loony like overly dramatic, “bride of Christ” haha. And I just thought, this world corrupts everything. Even wholesome and honestly innocent thought. And that’s what we are feeding this generation

Wendelyn: My kids may not watch TV

Wendelyn: Yeah and if you’re not on that ship of me first, then you’re made to feel stupid

Natasha: Exactly

Wendelyn: But the world would not have survived this long if people didn’t choose collectivism over individualism time and time again

Natasha: You are made to feel stupid for believing in anything other than self

Wendelyn: We just have to remain aware of the wiles of the devil. Because the lines are getting finer and finer

Natasha: True dat

Wendelyn: Evil has a more palatable face today than it’s ever had

Wendelyn: Because on the surface of it what’s really wrong with individualism?

Natasha: It does

Wendelyn: It’s only until you peel back the layers and look at the long term that you see the real potential for destruction

Wendelyn: It’s almost frightening

Natasha: It’s because of individualistic thinking that Nigeria has been raped

Wendelyn: Don’t even start with this country

Natasha: When you think about it it’s like where do we begin to separate the “good” from the bad?

Wendelyn: No collective anything especially because when you say “collective” people think you mean, “Ok I’m stealing for me and my
extended family/village not just me” so that’s ok

Natasha: I just think people need to take a chill pill and really contemplate. People don’t deeply think anymore

Wendelyn: So Nigerians are mad at a politician for not doing anything for his state like if it’s a governor but you will hear, “but at
least look at his village he gave them light or good roads” etc. I’m like how do we not even see the fundamental problem there

Wendelyn: I read an article about that once. I will send you a link I think I put it on my blog. It’s about how there’s so much noise that people don’t really understand solitude

Natasha: Uh huh! or when they say Goodluck gave us 30 schools. Are you kidding me?! We have a backlog of about 2000 schools!

Wendelyn: Like how can you think you’re not getting good advice when your 500 Facebook friends are commenting on the scattered pieces of your mind you’ve shared on Facebook

Wendelyn: It’s replaced honest and deep reflection and sharing with one good friend

Wendelyn: But you don’t realise that because you’re always being spoken AT

Natasha: Yup. I think it’s because before things took longer to happen. So you communicate you had to put things in a letter and it would take forever so you wouldn’t want to put in unnecessary rubbish. You focus on the good points. Now when you can immediately respond you are less likely to forgive, be patient etc

Wendelyn: Exactly

Natasha: Yeah. Facebook has replaced good old fashioned care of people

Wendelyn: Here’s the post on Solitude

Natasha: They have totally replaced the fundamental with the trivial

Natasha: Facebook should be supplementary not primary

Natasha: The solitude thing is also mentioned in that book I gave you called the Bodo Manifesto. he talked about how the nigerian is fundamentally loud and gregarious but a leader must be able to be by himself in solitude as it’s only then can he actually think and make decisions.

Wendelyn: I think if social media wasn’t free, it would have helped a great deal. So pay per message or view. Ok I have to retire now. My hands are still spazzing out, I think it’s the Ventolin that does that. But holding my phone up has worn the fingers out for a bit. Lol

Natasha: Ok no problem

Wendelyn: Will message in a bit

Natasha: I’ll read your post

Natasha: np

Natasha: oga lady still no show

Natasha: Please pray for me ooooo

Wendelyn: Lol! I will.