A Christmas Tale : Episode 1

I was tired of feeling this way, tired of being depressed especially for someone who always knew how to make the people around me smile just by my presence, I kept thinking about how I have to get a grip and snap out of this yucky mood I put myself  in every time, it's getting old, I can't even remember the last time i went out, had a good laugh or a good time. Speaking of a good time it's been so long since I let myself go, I'm not the kind of person you would call the life of the party but my presence was always noticed, not for how beautiful and attractive I was for a dark skinned girl but I knew had to have a good time.. emphasis on the knew because now it's so hard to keep a conversation going when half the time i'm having conversations with myself...

I wanted to be here, in the midst of my friend and her friends, I wanted to have a good laugh and forget how I'm going to end up on my warm bed this night feeling alone.. emphasis on the warm because the weather in this country hardly smiles on us....

Lola! Lola! Lola! Are you even here? Answer the Question?

Oh I'm sorry what was the question again, I didn't quite catch it?

Where's your head at silly, cuz it's obviously not here?

I don't Know Jare

"Tinu, one of the few great friends I have who always tries to make sure I'm not dead from time to time, the kind of girl you would call the life of a party, tall, beautiful, and drop dead gorgeous with the Olivia pope kind of smart, not stupid (lol)  you'd see her and expect her not to know or say the smart things, kinda like legally blonde, if you remember that movie (The blonde girl who became a good lawyer because she wanted to get the man she was in love with back, later finding herself in the process, plus, realizing how much of a coward the dude was) Classic Movie"

"Finally the drinks are here, I don't understand why these things take forever"

The moment I decided to leave my world of thoughts and actually try and enjoy the company of people around me. Tinu was the only one I had a close relationship amongst this group, I mean how can I make good friends when these days I enjoy having conversations with myself lol..

Realizing I was drifting back into my world of thoughts I decided to join the conversation they were having about our generation and what we have become. " Tade was explaining how people hardly ever read books or even enjoy each others companies anymore, everyone is busy pressing their phones,using the table, 3 feets away from ours as an example to such behavior"

"This I can totally relate to especially nowadays when social media is our one true love, Instagram, twitter, facebook and the one that has constantly been making sweet love to us Snapchat"

"haha funny how you put your thoughts in words Lola but I totally get what you are saying, you go to club these days and the girls are all on their phones, please why are you here, you do this at home and every other time, I mean it's a club dance and have fun, who could you possibly be talking to at 2am in the morning ehn"
"I for one say anytime we hang out no one should be on their phones, you can pick calls but that's just it, let's try and enjoy each other's presence"

I agree with Tade on this one, For a social media manager like myself, instagram, facebook, twitter et al are literally part of my day to day activities and I would like to avoid that world where everyone is trying to portray who or what they ain't to people when I can.

"Oh wow! it's 9;30pm, I didn't even notice, ok guys I need to go, Long drive back to the mainland and busy day tomorrow at work.. ah gosh I hate mondays"

"I Love Mondays "

"Of course you do Lola, when you lazy up in bed till like 10 then drag yourself to the studio, let's go jor, before I leave your ass"

"It was nice to finally meet you guys"

"Same here Lola, at least now we got to put a face to the name Tinu keeps mentioning"

The Drive home with Tinu was quite chatty, she kept hounding me about what I thought of Tade, considering I just met him, he seems nice I guess...
So Cliche of Tinu to try to set me up with him, she just would not let me be, talking about how I have to move on, I have moved on! haven't I? I haven't spoken to him in months and i'm good, these things take time.. she should just give me time abeg...

"Thanks for Dragging me out Tinu, despite how annoying you are most of the time, you're a great friend"
"You are welcome Darling"