YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE
As a student in secondary school and in the university, I remember some lazy days when my teachers would give us assignments and I wouldn't do them. I would be uncomfortable with my failure to do my assignment, but too lazy to even try. So I would go around looking for people who hadn't done theirs. 'You don do your homework sef?' 'No o. Abeg e too hard. I no get strength. I no sure say she go mark am', my classmate would sometimes respond. I would go around asking more and more students, and the more people who were in my gang, the happier I would be because 'atleast no be only me'. I would feel justified and secure somehow. The homework was really too hard to do. The teacher wouldn't bother to mark it, I would tell myself. If I got a 'yes' from a few people, I would feel a bit disturbed and guilty , but immediately brush it off my mind. They were ITKs and liars. **************************** I have noticed that we humans don't l