Jesse Ojuka

After two days of being my new job. A colleague walks into the office and says, “Pack up your things, the manager says you should go home early”. When I got home, I got a call from the manager telling me that I would not be continuing. Just as I say, “Can you clarify why”. My phone dies. Probably for the best. I’m not going to say I wasn’t irritated.

However, I just went to the gym. 

To most people, I look completely insane, which is boring at this stage. Who knew it would be so lonely being actualised, being yourself? Being aligned with who you are and not who the world wants you to be.

“To be great is to be misunderstood” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t get me wrong, I like to talk. Yet, I spend most of my time silent. In my mind. Thinking. Two years ago, I learnt that explaining yourself constantly is severely exhausting and is mostly pointless. “Don’t cast pearls before swine”, the bible teaches us. The times I feel most understood are when I’m reading, when I’m writing or when I’m making music. Otherwise, my experience with the world is mostly lived in my mind. 

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god”. – Aristotle

I want to help people. I want to help people reach their potential. I want people to be as great as they can be. However, going through it myself makes me see that it requires a certain level of isolation from average society. Most people have been robbed of their souls. Every last dropped of their souls has been syphoned off by opinions, jobs, fear, and people. Like thieves stealing fuel from a car.

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause, reflect and reform.” – Mark Twain

As I walked into the lifeless office, I found it mentally impossible to imagine myself staying there for long. To spend my days, my life, sitting in a box. “Day by day”, I told myself in a desperate attempt to endure. However, the universe is a guide. It spat me out just as the evil corporate beast was about to swallow and devour my soul. I am glad. 

Rejection is often redirection and protection from people and places we should avoid in the first place