Just the other day while trawling through my twitter live feed as you do I saw quite the disturbing tweet:

"a disease worse than cancer and most of us have got it..."

I was very concerned. Was this some next age murderous virus that had managed to infect the majority of the world's population without us noticing? Or was this what the Mayans meant about today the 21st of December being the end of the world? No, it wasn't. It was a piece about procrastination.

It is an opinion piece in Ynaija that you can read here: http://www.ynaija.com/opinion-a-disease-worse-than-cancer-and-most-of-us-have-got-it/.

I didn't and I still don't mind the content of the article. Yes, procrastination is a bad thing and yes, we need to do the things we need to do as soon as they need to be done and not ten weeks later. I know the dangers of procrastination, just the other day I interrupted an important revision session to watch the last episode of gossip girl. At that point in time finding out that Dan Humphrey is gossip girl was a million times more interesting than deriving the Hamiltonian of some dynamic optimization problem.

My only problem with it was and is the title. Is it not daft? Procrastination and cancer...

How is putting off starting that thing that you always wanted to do worse than cancer? You can always wake up when you're 60 and decide that it's time that you swim the English channel or it's time that you get that degree. That's something that probably isn't going to happen if you've been diagnosed with Ovarian cancer and in order to beat it you've had to give up your tubes, your bladder and a kidney. Or worse yet if the cancer that you thought you'd beat has returned more aggressively than ever and chances are you aren't going to make it.

I know that it's catchy, but there are better, wiser phrases.

Lastly you might be thinking that it's an opinion piece so you're allowed to write whatever you think but opinions are only valid on matters that are not completely serviced by facts. Is Procrastination more deadly than cancer? The last time I checked, it isn't.

Happy Days,
Afam

I wonder what it was you saw when you first saw me. I wonder that the being you saw; the imaginary being you saw wasn't really me. You made excuses; but nothing could change the fact I could never really be that thing you saw. It broke you; it killed me. You can't have known how it felt to have an imaginary version of you that was better than you engraved on you. I can't do this anymore....

One day, when I get round to writing a book and being published, the book will be filled with little passages like this. I think this one belongs in the huge break up scene where the man leaves his wife at their tenth wedding anniversary after a tumultuous marriage. Yes the premise of it is building in me head. I'll bullet point it.

• Main character: Rather handsome, very content with his life. 
• He doesn't aspire to much
• He's a fisherman, a poor satar player or a writer. Yes he's a writer.
• He's happy as long as he's got food on his table, booze on lock and company at night, which he pays for.
• Female Lead: Exceedingly beautiful, bordering on goddess.
• Has all the qualities desirable in a lady.
• Has suitors from here to Calcutta
• Her family's rather wealthy but the wealth is slipping away.
• She's under pressure to marry well and improve the family situation.
• But then she meets our writer who's also a fisherman.
• Yes that's how it happens. She's on a date with the man she's supposed to marry and she falls into the lake. Our writer who's also a fisherman jumps in and saves her.
• He returns her to her gentleman and is on his way.
• She locates him in town
• He dismisses her thanks and goes about his way.
• But he can't forget her face.
• He's falls deeply in love with her.
• She finds out that he's been writing under a pseudonym and thinks him immensely talented.
• He tries to make more money to earn enough to pursue her.
• She demands more.
• Her parents disapprove and kick her out.
• She resents him for this.
• She moves in with him
• He works hard to support her wild ways to earn her love
• He becomes quite successful
• It's not enough for her
• He finds that the richer he becomes the greater her expenses.
• He becomes depressed and paranoid.
• He believes that she's cheating on him.
• We're unsure about this.
• At their tenth anniversary party he confronts her
• She denies it.
• He loses his temper and divorces her.
• He goes searching for his childhood friend, who should have been introduced at the beginning of the bullet points.
• His ex wife cashes her half of the property and moves on like nothing happened. 
• He finds his childhood friend in a lowly position and lives with her returning to his original profession as a writer fisherman.
• Did I mention that he's a war veteran. 

I enjoyed this but it's really a load of bollocks.

Happy Days
Afam.