Day 20: Letter to A Werey
Hello Hauwa,
The ideal way to start this letter would be “I hope this meets you well”, but if I did I would be lying. I do not hope that you are well and let’s be honest you do not hope that I am as well.
Even if we lacked camaraderie, what we had in our relationship was a mutual love of misery. I knew you did not care for me deeply, Atleast the way a lover ought to care, and you knew that I did not either. Infact it’s almost as if we did not like each other.
But you know what we had? We had gist, miserable gist. It’s funny, how we could sit for hours and miserably talk about people. How we could laugh about the most unfortunate events and bond over such a negative emotion. Whoever coined the term”misery loves company” clearly had us in mind.
But it ruined me over time. Because I couldn’t get better, I got worse. Hauwa, if I was a bitter person when we met, you amplified it a thousand times. Chatting with you meant I had a permanent scowl on my face and an aura of skepticism that turned into my own coat. Unlike Joseph’s coat of many bright colours, mine was figurative and visibly gloomy. I was like a walking cloud of thunderstorm, ready to rain thunder and hailstorm on anyone that bothered to come close.
But now I have left you and there’s a little bit of sunshine in my life. Not a bright sun, just the silver of daylight you see at dawn. But I do not mind it. At least I can see road clearly. Atleast I am not walking around like the grumpty dumpty that you are.
Hauwa, you might argue that this my letter is very petty, because you might wonder why I am even here talking about these things. I know you have never and will never change but I needed to let you know that I have. You were a bad influence and I know you know it yet will never desire to be anything different. It suits you even, if I am being honest.
Whatever is happening in your life now, I hope there is less misery and chaos in the lives of people around you, just so you have nothing to be gleeful about. Some people build a spite house or ruin their ex’s car when they break up, but I will do none of those. What I will do instead is, send you these letters daily and fill you in on all the goodness that’s filling my life.Each day that the sun gets brighter and bigger for me, I will let you know. That is the perfect way to scorn a Werey like you.
Continue to swim in your pool of personal misery until you drown.
Sunshine and bright light,
Shalewa ☀️
Glossary.
Werey: In Nigerian lingo, means a crazy person (not to be translated literally). Can also be used to refer to someone who’s delusional, or is negatively outspoken, or talks carelessly.
