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I dey comot outside before di day start

@mangoseason Narrated by Chuck Goode 2:29 32 shots

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I dey outside and di day neva start to ask me for anytin. Di air dey do wetin early morning air dey do. I reach here before di day reach me, and na dat be di whole tin wey I set out to do dis morning. Na low bar, and e dey change everytin wey come afta am. Ten minutes ago I bin dey lie down and I no gree at all. Dat gap between no gree and outside na di only part wey ever need managing. Di order of di day na one of di few parts of am wey truly be my own to set.

Nobody dey road except one person wey dey waka dog, and neither of dem dey hurry. My shoe don wet small. Di light na dat flat, no rush kain wey dey happen for like twenty minutes and den e no dey happen again for di rest of di day. Somewhere far far, one van dey reverse. I neva look screen and e dey show.

Most morning I dey comot from bed go straight to screen, and di day don hold me before I hold mysef. I sabi exactly wetin dat one dey cost and I still dey do am, hundreds of times, and dat one better make I tok am plain instead of dressing am up. Di first tin wey I take in dey set di shape of everytin wey follow am, and I bin dey hand dat decision give whatever land for night from pipo wey no know me and wey no dey tink about me. Dat no be small tin to give comot. Na because I no do anytin about am I take give am comot, no be because I choose am, and na so most tin dey take comot from person hand. I no go ever allow stranger set di tone of my whole day, den I go allow one full screen of dem do exactly dat every morning.

Ten minutes outside first dey change di whole shape of di day, and no be because e dey repair anytin. E dey work because I reach di day before di day reach me. Di order matter pass di amount. Day wey I start on my own terms and day wey I start on person else own get exactly di same hours and dem dey feel like two completely different life, and na inside di first ten minutes dem dey decide di difference between dem. Dat na crazy good return for ten minutes, and e dey available tomorrow.

So tonight di shoe go dey near di door. Tomorrow, ten minutes, before di phone. Na dat be di whole plan and e fit enter any morning wey I go fit get for real life, di bad ones included. I dey remove di decision di night before, because di version of me for six o'clock for morning no suppose dey asked to make am at all. To depend on my own power to force mysef na weak plan. Shoe near di door na correct one. Dem go make di decision tonight, wen na me still dey make am.

Di day fit collect me now. Na me reach first, and I plan to dey continue to reach first.