The quiet corner of D/LINE
Before I was posted to my new location, I use to have a very busy day. I’m always occupied with work. Most times I reach home very late and very tired because of the long distance. To make matters worse, transport fare was very high due to the hyperinflation in the country. It was becoming unbearable for me.
I started making enquiry from my colleague for a good location around my area that has less stress. All fingers were pointing to D/line location. That was how I started applying for change of location. After months of relentless application, one morning, I got a call from the admin that my request have been granted. I was really happy and my colleagues congratulated me.
The next day, I reported to my new duty post. It turned out to be a school. The head of operatives at D-line introduced me to few of my colleagues who were familiar faces around the area. It was my first time working in the school premises and I was wondering where they will place me. My silent prayer was to avoid a busy unit and as fate would have it, I was posted to the most quiet place ever. ”THE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND”
My first two weeks there, felt like the break I’ve always wanted after the hectic work schedule in my previous location. Initially, I found solace in this tranquility because I could think well without anyone bothering me. My days at work passed with little more than writing reports and sleeping, as serene as the birds flying across the horizon at dusk, free and unburdened by the challenges of the world.
But as weeks turned to months, the place I once cherished became too quiet and lonely for me. Sometimes, when my colleagues from previous location call to ask me, how I was adjusting at my new workplace, I’ll pretend as if I’m having the best time of my life over here but in reality, the solitude was actually suffocating me, alienated like this frustrated creature sitting by the lakeside, staring out into the vast and empty unknown.
In fact, there was a time, I was so bored, I decided to revisit my childhood days of doing gymnastics. The last time I did such stunt was when I was very young and flexible. I gave it my best shot but I didn’t land on my feet properly and I sprained my ankle. Since the pain wasn’t too severe, I shrugged it off and returned to my usual routine of sleeping the days away, only for me to wake up to see my feet swollen. I almost cried. I could know longer walk again. I had to find a stick nearby to aid my movement
I was really pissed that day, wondering how I asked for a place with less work and not a grave yard!!! I started asking God, if it is not too much I’m asking, i don’t mind going back to my former location. I’m now ready to do the work and I won’t complain about it again. In fact, I don’t mind paying the high transportation cost again. I just want to leave this place.
But no one listened to me
During this sad moments, God finally reminded me about something that I have long forgotten about years ago..
Can you guess what it was????
The answer is STEEMIT!!
It was like a spark of light in my memory. An old platform i had forgotten about years ago, suddenly came knocking again in my life and offering me a way out of this isolation. I opened my account after 5 years and it was filled with cobwebs…. Lol. I had to dust it off and started posting again. Right now, Steemit has become my best friend in my place of solitude.
I will be inviting @ dannyben39, @radleking and @simonnwigwe to participate in this picture contest hosted by @inspiracion and @wakeupkitty
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A good read and it would have been perfect if you read what was asked
and had a look at other entries especially now I know you sleep the entire day. Do they really pay you for that?
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Like I said many times before you always find yourself in weird situations but lucky you, you can sleep the entire day and can scream it out for pain without anyone hearing you. So now you are drinking tea the entire day from that Steemit mug? Do you still long back to that busy working place now you are addicted to steemit?
It was great reading you but you missed doing Task 1 which is: describing the picture with a few simple words. Example: I see the sun, birds flying, an orange sky, water and clouds
Next, you should describe what you feel if you look at the picture. Example (in your case) abandoned, angry, lost
After that, a story might pop up like you on your back on the school playground with a swollen ankle watching the birds flying away and leaving you screaming behind for pain.
Thanks for joining and a great day alone.
p.s. I wonder what a playground is if there's no one playing. You find your report in the comment section.
Hahaha… at this point, that’s the best tea mug ever!! And I don’t want to leave anymore because I’ve gotten use to the place.. But it seems they are planning to change me, so that I can work inside the school premises because I’ve complained about it to them before now and secondly I’ve stayed there for so long
After that, a story might pop up like you on your back on the school playground with a swollen ankle watching the birds flying away and leaving you screaming behind for pain.
It’s a mistake on my part… i was thinking the emotions I feel while looking at the picture is what I’ll use to create up my story !! But like you have suggested, when next I do any challenge, I would check other entries to get an overview of how to answer my own, so I won’t make such mistakes again..
The kids come to play there. I’m like the sports master over there but once they leave, the boredom starts again..
Great photo you shared. You should run around with them and let them climb on you and you can swing them around. Once they leave you are exhausted and have a good reason to take a nap and once you wake up you are stressed because you are running out of time.