Your Curse Is Your Clapback — CONT'D

Segun Iwasanmi
@iwasanmisegun212159
2 months ago

© Segun Iwasanmi
"This Thing Called Life" Series — Episode 18
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The hall was hot but my thoughts were hotter. I kept asking myself one question. Why are words so cheap to some people? Why do insults come out of their mouth faster than breath?

I remembered a man I once saw in a small shop in Odosida. He wanted pure water. The seller delayed a little because she was counting change for someone else. The man hissed loudly.

“Some people are useless. Give me my pure water.”

The woman kept quiet but I saw her eyes. Her eyes carried something heavier than the insult.

I remembered a couple who fought in front of their house in the street we lived on when I was still in Secondary School. The husband said something careless. The wife replied with something sharper. You could almost see the words hitting each other in the air. Their voices tore apart what their hearts had been trying to build quietly for years.

I remembered stories of church people who disguise gossip as prayer points. “Let us pray for sister this and brother that.” Yet the details they share have no business in any prayer meeting. They call it concern. But it is actually mockery wearing long skirt.

The pattern is the same everywhere.
Careless words.
Sharp tongues.
Clapbacks that sound trendy but carry poison.
Sentences thrown like stones.
Curses used to decorate anger.
All of it wrapped in confidence.

But something struck me deep today.

To be continued... 🔥

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