Amina - The Goddess
I stumbled into one of
the marble-tiled toilet stalls of the 7* Sangria-La Hotel & Resorts - Kelli,
eyes blurred with tears, slumped onto the side of the oriental-styled ceramic
bowl and bawled my heart out. To add to my extensive list of failures, I could
not step off the ledge of the 20 storey-edifice in an attempt to end my dismal
life. Like clockwork, I got the customary text by noon from my mother’s hospice
nurse: “Hello Ms Amina, your mother is doing fine, however, we would need to
replenish her stock of Donepezil.” At 87 years, she had begun suffering from
mild bouts of dementia, holding strong for a decade after the demise of the love
of her life. How would I pay for this? Her medical insurance quota for the
month had already been used up!
Fitfully, I fell into a
trance-like state: I watched as a
Caucasian man drew brush strokes across a painting canvas. His work was
brilliant artistry and I itched to take a photograph of it. As he turned about,
he said to me: ‘There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.’ I
woke up and hurriedly repaired my makeup in the mirror to join the afternoon
session of the 64th Annual Photoplus Conference in the Ojukwu hall. The theme
for this session was “Developing Genius” led by TeeWayi Berlo. Still dispirited
from my ordeal, I prepared to go through the motions as she introduced herself
and broke the ice with: “The famous Casanova, Pablo Picasso said that there are
only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.
I jerked to attention, and
listened with rapt attention as she likened her successful journey in
photography to that of Picasso, the Artist as they used their pain, failures,
and losses to carve a niche for themselves in their art and are now called
geniuses.
As I got into bed, that night, I looked up at the intricately carved ceiling and for the first time in my 25 years on earth, I smilingly closed my eyes knowing that my time had come
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