I knew that this social media account was not compromised.

I was aghast about her post given what her family members, friends and trustees like me would take her for henceforth. Perhaps, I had overrated her because if she was not in the church, she was sharing video testimonials of some clerics or she was preaching her bible God. Due to her quiet mien, I was thrown aback pondering on what she wanted to gain with her tang, “Beauty is in the eyes of the guy wey never nack you.”

For me, this language is bereft of any moral fabrics expected of one who was supposed to lead a society to uphold moral ambience. If what she meant with her pigeon English was that after sleeping with a woman, a suitor’s professed love disappears, she was wrong.

There are men whom the ladies they got married to are their first love and will be their last love. Did they not sleep with such ladies before getting married to them? It is not always about going under the skin of a woman that vanishes the professed love, but some circumstances beneath what the man and the lady could explain.

However, we must know that many people have lost their jobs, relationships and sundry on some wanton social media posts.

We must understand that when a post or statement anywhere is not teaching, it is a poison to the society it was intended to serve.

Everything must not be taken for granted on social media; we must as individuals write and comment on things that even posterity would give a nod to.

We have to build a personality that should not defy what people think of us. At least, if we should defy, it should come to the individual as a scandal and not an orchestrated and odoriferous post such as “Beauty is in the eyes of the guy wey never nack you”. Ahoy!

© ODIMEGWU ONWUMERE
March 13 2021.