Delight Chilegide Olumati

I like to think that I can be everything I wish to be while being so afraid of who I actually am. I am as human as you are, but most times too scared to accept. What keeps me going is that, regardless of it all, I am human and that is before anything else.

You and the thoughts that we share has brought us to this part of our series and I am grateful that you’ve stayed thus far. In my thoughts, I often present myself as a super human, more so because that is what I have been addressed as, strong human and you know what they say, fake it until you make it. In a situation where more than a dozen of wonderful people call you strong, you with time come to believe it.

I am everyone’s definition of who a man should be, but my thoughts carry who I really am. And because they are thoughts, they often remain there. They often have no voice, so no words, and thus, no life.

I wrote a poem titled MY REFLECTION IN DIFFERENT MIRRORS, you can read it here and in it I described how I can be everything while leaving who I am in a space. Man is always who another man is. A man is always what he calls his neighbour, especially those names he leaves in his thoughts. We are the people we fear the most.

Conclusively, dear reader, thank you for staying with me through this series and until the next blog series, I hope you check out my books, especially my just published ‘TO THE FRIENDS WHO BECAME STRANGERS’.

Yours lovely,
Delight Olumati.