By: Ageh Success Chidera
Weekends are the commas in the long sentence of student life, without them, we would all just run out of breath
Imagine the frustration that comes with waking up on a Monday morning. I mean, waking up? More like dragging yourself out of the comfort of your bed just because you probably have one Dr. Abiodun’s 8 a.m. class, and you know that anything later than five minutes, no living thing would be allowed access into the lecture room.
Now, picture this,the feeling of joy that comes with the weekend, no morning lectures, no dragging yourself from bed, no morning alarms, no waiting in line to fetch water, or struggling with Amaka over who takes the first corner of the bathroom. This is the weekend, the comfort of waking up later than usual, the break from all the weekday wahala.
From running after keke and missing your first class of the day to sleeping like a retired warrior, weekends give us back the energy school tries to steal. Weekends are basically the time to refresh, relax, and lest I forget, do all the many tasks you have probably been postponing since the beginning of the week. Labake wey dey bed go still dey think, “Ah, omo, I gats wash before the cloth line go full o.” That alone shows how many people wash on Saturdays.
Weekends are also the time most people finally have to themselves, to feel alive again, have fun, and catch up on life. Some watch movies after waking up to the noise of their neighbors gisting about the last party they went to the previous night. Others scroll through TikTok and go through Instagram until their eyes feel numb, and they finally have to take a bath because they feel too sticky.
And of course, the weekend isn’t complete without a group of girls on the balcony playing loud Adekunle Gold songs while plaiting their hair.
Beyond sleep and gist, weekends are our mini therapy sessions, a time to just breathe, think, be human again, and re-strategize for the new week ahead. The weekend might not fix all our problems, but it sure reminds us that we still have life beyond the struggle the week days brings with it
