I loved the old Nollywood movies where bad things are happening to good people and then there’s a switch.
Good people have all they need and the bad ones are punished.
Then the movie ends.
In recent times I’ve noticed that life is not that way.
Life is not happily ever after.
Good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people.
At a point goodness wins, then bad days step in.
You are at the peak of your career, then there’s a setback. You start the journey with some people, and end it with another set of people.
As I grew up to realize this, I’ve been drawn to tv series more than single movies.
It is progressive. Sometimes it starts with happiness because the protagonist is winning.
The antagonist wins somewhere in the middle, loses towards the end and becomes the good guy or not.
It paints the real picture of how life is.
The good days and the bad days are just part of life.
We won’t appreciate the good if we do not experience the bad.
The difficult days give us the skills we need to live through the better days with ease.
The better days give us memories that come in handy during the bad days.
However, a lot of us are the happily ever after guys.
Hope was inculcated in us through Bible stories, moonlight tales, and the single movies of old.
No matter what happened, we believed the protagonist doesn’t die and won’t die.
In our lives, the protagonist might be our parents, sibling, uncle, spouse, partner, career or funding.
We trust they will always be there, so we depend solely on them, live recklessly and enjoy their presence.
Until something takes them out of the picture. They die, get handicapped or lost and we decide life is over.
We stop chasing our dreams. We stop pushing. We stop writing our story.
It shouldn’t be that way.
The only protagonist that matters in your story is you.
You are the only person who is able to create your happily ever after or that pathetic end.
And you need to know that life is not linear. It doesn’t start bad and end good.
There will be bad days, there will be good ones too.
There will be days you just want to lie down and eat your feelings.
It might even move past days and become months or years.
You will get to the bottom of the ladder and feel comfortable there.
You will have the worst days with the burning urge to let it all go.
Hey…
That’s just life.
Approach it like it’s life.
If you have the resolve, put it behind you and start on a clean slate.
If you can’t, live with it and push through it.
You can crawl, walk, run, or do the 3.
Just keep living. Continue striving.
It’s okay not to know how it ends.
Carry yourself through your story and write every word of it with a good grip.
Remember, the only antagonist that matters in your journey of life, is you.
Make the story worth your time.
SHINE!!!
I’m Bridget.
Nice piece. Thank you