It is that time of the year when we try to get even merrier and nicer. Christmas is coming, but unlike the past few years, I am nowhere near home this time. I am about a 16-hour drive away from home, and I am perplexed about whether I'd even travel at all. Funding is the major constraint.
I would like to travel, of course. The Christmas season isn't just about Christmas alone for me. My mother's birthday is on Christmas Day. It gives me more reason to be at home and celebrate with her and my family. It has always been a joyful season for us all, so I look forward to it as usual.
At this time, however, I have a truckload of work to attend to before I can actually leave for anywhere. I really do not like the job, so I am very unenthusiastic about the entire stress that would come with it. You really would expect such when there's no form of incentivization that measures up to the task.
I could stay here for the holidays and explore what it's like here around this time and experience it all since I may not be in this part of the country for a very long time. I would only have to travel to a part of this state where things could really happen. Nothing much really happens here. And I was reminded of it over the weekend.
I travelled to a nearby state for some work-related things, and I was away for three days. It was then that I realised that I really needed to leave the cubicle where I reside, explore places, and live life a little more regularly. I returned home and felt, you know, "back to square one again."
From a time when I spent $40 To fix a $66 cake
So, if I do not get to travel home, I would have to hit up a couple of friends that stay on the busier side of the state and move there for the holidays. I would like to travel back home, however. I haven't seen my family in such a long time, and we have missed ourselves. And there are activities and festivals that I am accustomed to at home that I would really miss.
From what it looks like right now, I may only get to stay for about three weeks. Then I'd have to return to where I am at the moment and this job that I really do not find any joy in.
Keresimesi is a Christmas event hosted by the church I used to attend while I was a student at the university. Keresimesi literally means "Christmas" in Yoruba. I have been attending it for a long time. As a matter of fact, I performed with the choir as a guitarist in the last one, which was last year.
I would like to visit again and experience it again, although I would only be a part of the audience this time as I wasn't a part of their rehearsals and planning all along. I did document the last experience—the one with 
We usually host people around this time of the year—family and friends—as it's my mother's birthday, so people often travel in to be with her and celebrate her. The house gets fuller, merrier, and busier. I look forward to that. You know, meeting cousins again after a long time and having fun with them
I would like to see a couple of friends around this time. I would be away for yet another six months, at least after this season, and I haven't even seen some of them in such a long time. Hopefully, I will get to hang with them and see that they are doing very well with my own eyes. Something like this one with 
What we know as Christmas over here isn't snow, bells, gift boxes under a Christmas tree with decor and lights around it, and things of that sort. What we know here are plenty of foods to eat—particularly chicken—lots and lots of drinks to eat, sounds of music all around, fireworks sometimes, and a lot of electricity from the grid—if they are so kind this time. I look forward to all that, as that's how we roll where I am from.
What makes Christmas truly Christmas is about people, food and drinks, and jollyment. That's what I look forward to experiencing this year again, regardless of where I may be.
Season's greetings, dear reader!
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