You don pass the line wey you draw

You dey stand for one life wey the younger version of you for don call 'I don arrive'. E funny make you read dis kain sentence dis hour, but na true talk. The window grey, ordinary. Coffee dey. Nothing for the room dey announce itself, and na exactly the point of wetin go come next.

Radiator dey tick as e dey warm up. Keys dey where you drop dem. That particular flat light wey dey enter early morning for plain wall. Somewhere down, one door, den footsteps, den quiet again. The day never start to ask you for anything yet.

One time, you draw one line and tell yourself say if you cross am, e go feel like something big. You cross am. E just feel like ordinary Tuesday. Na not say you no dey grateful, and to call am so no dey help nobody: your mind dey reset wetin e take as normal to whatever dey true now, fast fast, so the moment the thing wey you wan get come, e stop to feel like wanted thing, e just become normal. Every goal wey you don reach, your mind don absorb am within like two weeks. Na so the machine dey work as e suppose work, and na why the line dey always move no matter how fast you run go meet am.

Try ask the question from another side. Instead make you ask wetin still dey miss, ask wetin you don get wey you for don want before, and make you accept the honest answer without arguing with am. That list long pass the other one, but you rarely read am. E no be say e no true, na because when wetin you want don satisfy, e go quiet, but the one wey never satisfy go still dey talk, so the loudest voice for your head na permanent one-sided sample. Give the quiet ones chance make dem talk, and the whole day go change weight.

So today, call one. Say am out loud or write am for paper: one thing wey you get right now wey you for don tell person say na the goal. No be gratitude list, no be practice, no be habit wey you go dey do everyday. Just one, today, talk am plain, because the point na make you notice am one time, no be say you go dey schedule notice am forever.

You dey live inside person answered prayer, and e happen say na your own. That no mean make you stop to want things. E mean say the wanting never be the part wey dey missing.