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Nwoke ọma
@ChiefLyffBoxx
Catholic | Sales | Customer support |Travel manager | Music | Manchester United FC. When in doubt, go black. ✊🏿
Who's asking? 参加日 Temmuz 2010
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I am plus 1 today. God has been faithful. I thank God for all his goodness, mercy and grace upon my life. Happy birthday to me 🎂🍾🍾
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There was a night I sat with a stranger at a bus stop for 2 hours because neither of us had anywhere better to be.
Not planned. Just one of those Lagos nights where the rain makes decisions for everyone and you accept it or you don't and either way you're wet.
I had been at a job interview that afternoon. Third one that month. Different company. Same energy walking out. The specific flatness of a man who answered every question correctly and felt nothing about it.
The bus stop was on Obafemi Awolowo Road. Covered but barely. The rain was the aggressive kind. The type that makes okada men pull over and reconsider their life choices.
He was already there when I arrived. Older man. Maybe late fifties. Well dressed in the way that suggests the day started with intention even if it hadn't ended that way. He had a briefcase on his lap and was looking at the rain with the expression of someone who had made peace with delays a long time ago.
We nodded. The Lagos acknowledgment that means I see you and I won't bother you simultaneously.
20 minutes passed. Then he said without looking at me that rain in Lagos always felt personal. Like it had specifically chosen your day.
I laughed before I could stop myself. We talked after that the way the rain permitted. Slowly. Without agenda. He asked what I did. I told him what I was trying to do which felt more honest that night than what I was actually doing.
He listened properly. Not the half listening people do while assembling their response. Actually receiving what I was saying.
Then he told me about himself.
He had been a teacher for thirty years. Secondary school economics. Same school in Yaba. He had watched hundreds of students pass through and tracked the ones who made it and the ones who didn't and had a theory he had been refining for three decades.
I asked what the theory was.
He said the ones who made it weren't always the smartest or the most connected.
Said they were the ones who stayed interested. In people. In ideas. In the world outside their own struggle. Said ambition without curiosity was just desperation wearing a suit.
I thought about the three interviews that month. How I had walked into each one thinking about what I needed from the room rather than what I found interesting about it.
The rain slowed around 9pm.
He stood up. Straightened his jacket. Picked up his briefcase with the care of a man who respected his belongings.
Before he left he said one thing.
He said the best thing that ever happened to his career was a period he spent completely broke and forced to be still. Said stillness without distraction was the only place he ever figured out what he actually wanted.
Said he hoped the rain gave me the same gift tonight. Then he walked into the clearing drizzle without looking back.
I sat there another 20 minutes after he left. Not waiting for a bus.
Just sitting with what stillness was already starting to show me.
The fourth interview was 2 weeks later. I walked in curious instead of desperate.
Got the job.
Some teachers never stand in front of a classroom to reach you. Sometimes they just get caught in the same rain.
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Sending jealousy to everyone who celebrated Easter at the Vatican 😒
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@ChiefLyffBoxx @ronaldnzimora Happy Easter Oga Emma 🎉
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“Catholic people will be doing as if Jesus Christ died for only their church.”
Ehhhhh So, you believe He died (For all of mankind, of course) right? Ok. To have died, it means He was born too, right? Ok. But you don’t even respect or rate His mother at all. So, you seeeeeee?.
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…and cathechists, church wardens, back benchers, late comers, everybody. 😆😆😆
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A special appreciation to all the choristers, lay readers, Mass servers and altar girls for their various contributions to the church, before, during and after the lenten season.
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@ChiefLyffBoxx You deh mind them. Na we get am make them deh drag with their keyboard.🤸🤸🤸
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Boomer Catholicism is slowly dying a brutal death.
Being able to see this happen in my lifetime was never in my 2026 bingo book.
My goodness
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