here and there

there was a time when i blogged very often, but that was a long, long time ago. i really loved it. i'd come here and say whatever was on my mind. i felt free, it was bliss. but i was in a different place then, and there were things that i just had to get off my chest, otherwise i knew my head was definitely going to explode with the pressure of the thoughts that needed to find their way into the air. these days my life is different. i thought i had pressures then, but i really didn't understand the meaning of the word. these days its clear what the word really means. plus i find that i've become truly lazy, and its become far too hard to sit in one place and compose my thoughts well enough to put the bare bones of a blog together. and then there's the process of writing, which is simply not for kids....

today i got a message, a "scream" in my email from someone who basically wanted to know why ologunde and i hadn't been blogging. so i thought about if for a long moment, and found a truckful of excuses to explain my absence from these pages, which had once been my refuge. i've sat here and promised myself tons of times before, that i would be more diligent about my writing. but the promises come to nought. and there's nothing worse than failing to be true to yourself....

the elections are over, been and done. the results were surprising, yet they were as expected. we clamoured for change, but we have chosen more of the same. one thing i am grateful for is the fact that the elections are widely adjudged to be transparent. for this i give maximum respect to the president for having the courage to appoint professor jega, whom it is generally thought, is an upright and honest individual. it was clearly a great gamble, deciding not to follow his antecedents in appointing a national electoral officer who can be easily "swayed" into compromise. perhaps this president really knows what he is doing aferall, and perhaps he will show us really soon, that he knows precisely how to solve our legion of problems.

its late, and i am going to bed.