I particularly like Thursdays, perhaps because it tells me that the week is rounding up, and if I can cope from Monday till now, the rest is not a problem, or maybe because Thursdays are lecture free days for me.
I checked my phone, 3:05pm, really? I thought I had slept more than that? Now what will I do today, I want today to be special and not particularly filled assignments and reading. Just then my phone beeped! Yea, I have not been online this morning. It was a WhatsApp message from Candycrush, who is Candycrush by the way?
Candycrush? Oh yea, I remember her, my course mate I just met yesterday. Hanging out? I really don�t know her that much to hang out with her, but I do know she is one of the big hits in the class, classy and brilliant, so whatever hanging out she might want to do will be ok, and in a way I feel honored that she invited me. Moreover I need today to be special. So I texted her back in agreement.
The hang out was off campus, and by the time I got there, it was 5:18 pm, I felt I was too late, although I intentionally didn�t want to appear early like I was desperate for friends. The building looked dull from outside like nothing was going on. Yeah, I�m late and the party over, but still, I picked up my phone to call her.
�Hey Candy, I�m outside can you come out to pick me�, I was expecting a note like, oh! you are late the party is over.
�Woooowwwwww, everybody it�s Tricia, Tricia I�m coming right there to pick you,� Was the happy voice I heard over at the other end.
It wasn�t up to 2 mins, I saw Candy�s happy body jumping down the stairs, she hugged me, and I felt so honored once again.
�How is the party going?�
�Party? It is just a little get together, and I wanted you to be part of it.�
That is OK, I thought, but as I got upstairs the story was another, I saw mostly unfamiliar friends, and a couple of my classmates, the music was going slowly and food was nowhere to be found. Not like I was that hungry, but I felt it should be an evidence of a good gathering. Candy introduced me to everyone, like I was her best friend. When we had opportunity to seat down, she passed a cup to me.
�It�s alcoholic.�
�Yesss? Do you have a problem with that?� Candy asked rolling her eyes.
Now, I don�t do alcohol, I have taken it a couple of times but that was long ago and I didn�t like the aftermath, but here I am, already introduced as the coolest girl she has met, even though I don�t know how I earned that. So I said to myself, just one cup.
Candy smiled to herself, and I saw happiness in her eyes, as I sipped the cup, then we got talking, the room got noisier and rowdier and I got hungry.
It was about this time I heard the noise, a shout for joy, as a group of friends entered with a bag, I thought to myself, food at last, but then my eyes got cleared as it was been passed around, WEED!
Weed? I asked myself again, how did I find myself here, I was quite shocked, yea, I have taken like two cups of alcohol and was already tipsy, but not weed. Just within few minutes everywhere was filled with smoke. Candy urged me to take a few drag. But way no! I can�t go in for this, not in a life time.
�Why are you acting weird? Please don�t fall my hand here�
�No, I won�t, I don�t do this�
�Really? But you do alcohol?�
Now, I felt really bad at this, �Yeah that was a mistake.�
�A mistake that makes you feel good, don�t you like the way you are feeling right now? Tricia, I understand how you feel, I felt bad the first time I tried weed, but I can�t live without it now, it�s my source of inspiration, my muse.� Candy said.
�Candy that�s what weed do to you, it makes you dependent on it forever and ends up destroying you, you feel high and at the end, you get depressed again, I don�t want to be a part of this.�
�I thought you were cool.�
�Yes, I am, and I don�t want to get heated up by smoking.�
Time for me to go, I have had enough for the day, I picked up my bag and I saw turned to her I saw a flinch of jealousy in her, �I hope you realize weed is not fun but a destructive agent, and I hope you realize it soon enough.� I know the effect of weed too well to be deceived by its pleasurable moment, the depressed face of my brother and the damaged mind of my neighbor began to ring in my mind.
Finally, I�m back to my room, what a day! And a narrow escape. What have I learnt today? 1. Never to wake up with an aimless mind again. 2. Not to hang out with strangers. 3. Not to try alcohol again. 4. Set goals for my lectures free days.
Some experiences are best not self-learnt but learning from others, as we might not live to tell them if we self-experience them.
So much for Thursdays!
Olatubosun Chinwe-Taiwo
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