Mad world

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful to be realistic to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to kn...

1. make friends with a local girl on the beach 2. buy an African mask/statue 3. buy fridge magnets for the guys back home 4. collect local newspapers 5. drink local beer(STAR) 6. see a sunset on the Nigerian side of the Atlantic Ocean 7. put my feet into the ocean 8. take a sample of sand 9. eat some local food (Suya) 10. see them dance (man, they can dance!!) 11. remember the smell of the ocean 12. get to know better the people you work with... .... Checked!