Everybody has a place: BARROW

Anosime Imhoitsike

“I don’t have a job, but all I can do now is push this wheel barrow” … sounds familiar? No? I was in traffic in a keke, when I saw a guy pushing something that didn’t look like the conventional wheelbarrow but a rusty makeshift one, obviously made from an old bath tub, two car tyres and a few planks; that would induce a chuckle, pity, wonder or even a story like it did me.

No two genetic material are ever the same, every single person is unique. Every day we breathe, we eat, we tweet (that is, if you are into that), we exist but imagine if we did them exactly the same way every day; I certainly wouldn’t like it, especially the eating part. You have been specifically destined to play each part in the race differently. Your talent might be ‘odd’ and crude; there is room for them to be creatively or academically honed. 
By all means push your place:
• Identify your part: Seek and you shall find.
• Be content with your gift: no matter how small or odd it may seem, use it even if it is currently not ‘marketable’. Create a market for it
• Design a make shift tool: if it isn’t available, by all means design it. Even it involves an old bath tub. The whole crudeness of the piece of art in the midst of all the posh and not-so-posh cars made me see life in a different way.

Here I was sitting in traffic in the keke with this piece of art, left and by my right is a cute car, in front of me is a soon-to- retire (commercial bus) danfo and a bike. All kinds of automobiles on the same road, obeying the same traffic light, under the same weather; yet not having the same destination. So, even if life tells you “Sharrap! Carry that unpolished, sorry thing you call a talent away”. Just package yourself and wait for the red light to disappear and when the green light says “GO”, Sweetie! PUSH ‘em barrow real hard. You know why? If you don’t push your place, who will?


Anosime Imhoitsike is a Chemist and Writer. Aspiring novelist and Playwright. Fair weather football fan so you know she seldom supports Arsenal. Some say she is hilarious, she doesn't know why. God lover and calls the Holy Spirit her bestie.