A little bit of Freedom
A friend of mine back at home called the other day and asked why I haven't been back home in a while now. In his words, I must love school so much to not want to even visit home. I had laughed to that because truth be told, there's nothing I love about school itself.
To be honest, if I had my way, I won't even go to class no more. School to me, is torture. Everyday I go to school, all that keeps me going is thinking about coming back home to my hostel at the end of the day.
Irrespective of the fact that I liked the idea of him thinking that the only reason I wasn't back home yet was because I was in love with my lectures and all that, I decided to tell him the truth. I had told him that me staying back here even during the holiday season was because of my friends and that it has nothing to do with school.
After the phone call was over, I thought a little bit about our conversation and then I realized that the reason why most student don't always go back home even during the holidays is mainly because of the many restrictions Nigerian parents give their children at home.
The truth is, if many of us were actually allowed to be free, to go visit our friends and spend some time with them. If we were given some amount of freedom while at home, we won't feel like we're experiencing something new when we eventually leave home for school and this is the absolute truth.
How do you expect a child who has been locked up all his life to be in a hurry to go back home after he finally tasted freedom and now knows what it feels like. As for me, that isn't really the case though, I just find it extremely tiring to pack my bags, go get the bus ticket and then sit more than fifteen hours in the bus just to get home.
Every time I think about all this processes, I just tell myself I will go home next year, and when it gets to next year, I say the same thing to myself all over again.