Listening to a colleague narrating an unpleasant experience on social media that almost managed to creep into his career, makes one realise how wide the ears of walls have gotten, what with camera phones, internet facilities and what have you? If you doubt me and are in Naija, just think back to how the ‘salt-water bath cure for Ebola virus’ started and ditto!

Anyway, if you work in an organisation that has your name and possibly face or contact details on its website, you might want to consider what and how you post certain comments on social media (except of course you post as ‘anonymous’, and even then, internet geeks, have their ways of putting a name to your anonymity) because those comments may just come back to attempt to bite you. 

So, my conclusion is that we should always be careful about the comments and whatnots we post, and generally, what we say because the walls indeed have ears. After all, that was how I got something to post about! *cheeky grin*

With bated breath, I listen as the radio commentator exclaims, “Is this another goal!…” And with adrenaline pumping through my veins at top speed, I hear, “O! What a brilliant save by the goalkeeper!” Barely have I released my breath, before I hear another exclamation, “O no! The goalkeeper’s defender just made a tactical error and scored an own-goal! *sad face.*

That was the scenario that flashed across my mind as I and my team mates tried to beat the odds of traffic around 2:30 pm to meet up with a 3:45 pm flight, for which check in time was to be no later than 40 minutes before departure. Of course, we didn’t plan to leave by that time but you see, some things came up, as they often inevitably do when you act in concert with a team.

So on our way, I muse about this thing called team work and how it can make or mar personal efforts. Constantly distracted by glancing at my watch every few minutes (like that would magically make the cab move faster) and varied chants of ‘Oga, abeg move faster!’ from my team mates, I thought to myself that this team work of a thing can sometimes be a burden.

Irrespective of my fleeting thoughts on the subject, one thing that still holds true is that, ability to work in and with a team is perhaps one of the greatest indicators of a well-rounded personality, after all, a single tree can never make a forest.

Needless to say, we managed to meet up with our flight and as I strap myself in for the ride home from the airport, I can only conclude that team work is inevitable.

Ok! So here are two perspectives…

A chic’s walking all daintily in her killer-heels thinking in her mind, ‘can this event end so I can climb down from these things.’ Another looks on in envy and thinks aloud, ‘see this hot chic.’

My point, one chic is enduring the moment while the other not knowing where her heels pinch, looks on in envy.

Now the application…

In life, no matter how dainty any one person’s life looks, there’s almost always a story to tell and fact is even if the story now has a happy ending, there almost always would have been bumps and twists along the way.

For me, life is really about how you pick yourself up and carry yourself daintily no matter what you have been through because at the end, that is what really makes you the success you are.

In conclusion…

Before you go about beefing that chic (or guy) who seems to have it better than you, take a breather and really ask yourself, ‘am I ready to walk her (or his) walk?’

As part of the female gender, it had always been somewhere at the back of my mind that my daddy’s surname won’t stay mine forever; but reflecting on the reality of it has brought some questions to mind.

You see, in law, the understanding is that when a company for instance changes its name, it can no longer carry on business with the former name without doing another formal change of name.

So here’s the thing. After the fun and fanfare of a wedding ceremony, the wife gets to formally change her surname to her husband’s surname (in most cases), and even takes out a newspaper publication in that regard, to serve as notice to all and sundry.

Granted, all documents that had been issued in her father’s surname before the change of name, remain valid. But the question is, what if this woman after that change of surname, decides to use her father’s surname (maiden name) to say, purchase a property. Will that action be valid, given that she has changed that name? Is one to apply the company name change scenario cited above to this?

So, as I drink (or is it eat) hot pepper soup on this cold, rainy evening, these are some of the questions that come to mind.

Watagoan!

Ok, so I decided to do this to capture random thoughts and largely assert in a fun way that sanity can indeed be maintained even in the midst of all the craziness. I like music, reading, gisting and writing (in no particular order) and I’m always happy to receive constructive comments.

That being said, let’s do this!

Cheers…