THE "WHERE ARE YOU" WORLD

"WHERE ARE YOU?"

(A question of care or an expression of suspicion?)

 

By Oyero Joshua

With pleasant but firm voice of authority adorned with possession similar to the voice's pitch of the Creator, one that His majesty had ranged out to Adam and Eve when the duo flouted His supreme order, He habitually asks her: "Where are you?". This, he frequently inquire with no insinuation of infidelity each time he's on phone with her.

 

 

Victor is a well-built man with the physique of a robort (a result of daily gymnasium). He's a professional pall-bearer: a paid-carrier of corpse. A man of the 'albino fraternity'. Happily married to an ambitious lady named Victoria in a union of a decade thereabout. Victor often unknowing to himself cyber-monitors his wife's movement by choking her with calls and obligatory chats.

 

 

On her part, Victoria is a mild-mannered mother of two with the elegance and fragrance of a 'fallen angel'. She is a career-oriented fellow who to her ability combines the quest of attaining professional growth and excellence with homely responsibilities. She is a bank worker. The nature of her job is time exhausting as she occupies the post of a cash officer in one of the millenium banks. As a cash officer, she' saddled with the onus of endorsing the total amount of daily transactions of her financial district. Her job routine is one that compels her to keep late at the office. This is because it's mandatory for her to wait till the cashiers forward in their data in order to do the compilation.

 

 

Victor, often less occupied during week days due to the nature of his vocation as funerals are mostly done on the tail part of the week douses his wife with calls and excessive chats (perhaps, because he's often lonely and idle during week days?).

 

 

At this juncture, it's pertinent to make a point crystal-clear, which is that Victor asks after his wife's where-about bearing the good intention of care and concern not jealousy. but be it as it may, such inquisition is a delicate one because it also expresses suspicion as to infer that he doesn't trust her.

 

 

On a most serious note, I've lost count of number of times I've heard people croon out 'where are you?', obviously to their loved ones. I'm not really captivated with the fact that Lovebirds considering the love knot that binds them often as a matter of anxious desire to know where their partners are at any and every time of the day (when they aint together). But, what holds my fancy is the controversial perception of the 3-word phrase.

 

 

To some, 'Where are you dearie?' is a world class offensive question often taken as an expression of distrust from their spouse. While to some, it's a profession of acceptance and concern amongst many other numerous divergent perceptions.

 

 

Still in the social consciousness of trends unfolding in my environment......................

 

...Kip da Optimism Alive