During my one year national service, i was madly in love, it was the reason I refused to process my documents for the first batch, I waited for the second, because it all seems to me like the two batches were the same, and all i was thinking of was, "it was just three months difference?"
The deal was, I thought about how I was going to coop in the camp while she will be where she was all alone, and anytime I am on this thoughts, my heart was doing as if it was not my own, because I was loosing control, and time's I stared at her, she did not know what was going through my mind, how difficult it was for me, knowing I was going to go to another place, and she will not be there with me, or around me.
Therefore, at the end of the day, it makes me forget about the first batch, and then stick around for some more time, to gather courage.
When my brother asked me, "what's up" trying to know when I was going to orientation camp, because they saw my course mate's in camp, I thought of hiding what I was battling with from him, but, it can as well be not convinced, when a brother wants to lie, because he as already knows what was going on.
To be sincere, he make it so easy for me to queue in, and talk directly why I decided not to go for the first batch, yet, he let me knows that, he understand how I feels quite well, but I should not missed the coming batch anymore, because when I come back from camp, I am still going to meet her, and nothing is going to stopped or change the way we feel about each other.
Fast forward, I hop in the next batch, and when i was in the camp, day's i was not on cash for others things, i was on cards to call, and text the person that holds my heart.
It gotten to a day network was very busy and people in the camp have a hard time in making call's, that day, i was not myself at all, my fellow corp members didn't understand that while they were talking about how busy was the network at their end and it was easy for them, i was feeling like the world was turning upside down, but it wasn't so, it was just my hunch trying to give me a bad mood.
Later that day, towards in the evening, it was her message that got me up, I was somehow tired, but when the message came in, I received energy, I grabbed the phone, and the way I felt totally left me immediately, we talked and that day didn't end badly.
On the day we met, it was not just a romantic moment, it was so so romantically, I smiled very broadly, I hope most of us knows that smiles that get to us when we found out where our heart totally belongs. I realized my world was complete, and next time I should not get afraid of loosing someone who don't want to loose me, but to believe that we are right into us together.
That apart, getting home, my nephew saw me, he ran and, jump on me, then, begin to tell me everything that went on, starting from that of his friends, and summarize with that of the family, the one that got my laughing was when he asked me, "if I am now a police man?"
I replied. "I am not"
He was not convinced, because of the khaki I was putting on, what he said next was, "I should drop him", and when I did, he salute me, and I salute him back, it got everybody laughing at home.
Wes & Grindan