Look what I stumbled on!
I was wandering through the aisles with books at the new PrinceEbaeno Supermarket in Zone4 and stumbled on this book that unlocked a childhood memory.
We were living in Lagos at the time, I can’t recall where precisely or how old i was, i think i probably had Chicken pox or something like that. I do vividly recall being in my parent’s room wearing only panties and looking like a ghost as i was covered in Calamine lotion from head to toe.🤭
There was a velvet cream coloured dresser with 4 drawers and a huge mirror on it close to the bed in their room.
I opened the bottom left drawer, took out my Asterix adventure comic book, plopped my patchy white self on their spring bed and was whisked away into the adventure land of my imagination as i read it.
I can recall the feeling just being a child and free of responsibilities or worries, enjoying reading this book and imagining it. Seeing it at the store brought me so much inexplicable joy as the memory came to me and I literally squealed in excitement. Nostalgia.
I bought a copy and plan to dive into it, i will definitely be getting some more for myself. Kiki can read it too if she wants 😁 i plan to continue building a library for her with a wide variety of books with the hope that she falls in love with reading as i did when i was younger or more. It was sort of my escape from the real world at times.
It’s crazy how certain scents, books, pictures, stories,etc. are like a time capsule that transport you to a particular moment in the past.You remember everything as if you’re right there at that moment, no matter how long ago the memory.
They also had some Enid Blyton books which i read a lot as a child. I loved and enjoyed reading a lot-Enid Blyton, Babysitters club, Agatha Christie, Silhouette, Harlequin, Mills&Boons, Goosebumps, Nora Roberts, Danielle Steel, James Patterson, Dan Brown, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling- so many authors. I enjoyed English & Literature-‘Things Fall Apart’,The Lion & the Jewel’, ‘She Stoops to Conquer’, ‘The Marriage of Anansewa’, ‘The Beautyful ones are not yet born’, ‘The Merchant of Venice’, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘Romeo & Juliet’, ‘Hamlet’-i could go on and on, its kinda sad i don’t make time to read as much as an adult.
I get to read mostly work documents or for certifications and career/life related reasons. Its hardly ever stricty for leisure as i did in the past though i try to squeeze in a novel or two occasionally.
Those were simpler times when all we worried about was School homework, Christmas clothes, Birthday gifts, Watching cartoons, etc.
We wanted to be grown sooo bad and call all the shots.lol. Well we grown now! Jokes on who…
Lesson- Be present and make the most of the phase of life you’re in, it won’t last forever.
Toodles!XooX
