“Trouble is just that, trouble. But the worst kind of trouble, is the one that could have been avoided.” Chioma Onwudiwe
“Do ‘let it go’, but don’t go letting it.” Chioma Onwudiwe
"The moth will return, if the cloth is still in that dark and dingy space." Chioma Onwudiwe #Letthelightin, #Livefree,
Stay with these movie previews, I thee implore. At least, until the credits starts to roll. Do not start a mini sermon midway. Or write another blog within a blog (SMH). Just grab the popcorn or popsicle, whichever you prefer. And then settle in, for this soul searching experience. Oh! And one more thing. Do put on your 5D thinking cap.
Movie #1: So this contemptible hunter with a head made out of brick (hard-headed). Captures king kochi as a baby. And then puts him in a large cage. Sometimes he is fed, other times he is not. But Kochi grows anyhow. While he is growing, howbeit subtly. Other knuckle/hard-heads, make fun of him for being in a cage. He is weird, angry and overly sensitive, they would complain.
Edit movie and fast forward. We can’t show the whole movie in a trailer segment now, can we? Anyway, back to the movie. King kochi matures, to become King Kong. One day however, now grown. He gets up and lifts the door of the cage (when destiny calls). The whole cage is lifted along with the door. What an incredible sight. Bolts fly off hinges, as he walks out into freedom and a new life. Simple.
Well not really. This is when the real saga begins. The hunter cries treason. ‘Why oh why? Did King Kong go free? Even without informing me. Who will replace him? For all the abusage he endured and the usage that he is worth? How come he never ‘let it go’? The desire to not stay a victim, that is? Furthermore, how shall I fix my hurt pride? As a seasoned hunter, I might now be hunted myself. How very mean of King Kong, to leave the cage. How cruel of him to mess up my plans, that involved him being bound to that cage. Why would he not let the fact that he is a captive go? Why could he not just remain in the cage and refrain from rocking the boat of status quo. What an unkind character he is indeed.’ We feel your pain hunter.
Movie #2: Jezy has some very serious issues. They stem from insecurities and a seething anger. She does not like Fava. In fact, she envys and hates her. Therefore, she schemes, plots and slanders the object of her discontent. Every waking moment and chance Jezy gets, she lays a trap and a thread of destructive lies for and about Fava. Meanwhile, the victim is unsuspecting because she is busy living. Or trying to live. A definite feat, amongst the obstacles that so easily beset her.
Now for every trap and tangled treachery that Jezy weaves. She has the opportunity to ‘let it go’. She does not have to add one more vile action, to her growing mountain of premeditated assaults. But Jezy does not, ‘let it go’, that is. She must run ramshod, with her smear campaign. For it brings her a fleeting feeling of happiness, to imagine any damage inflicted on Fava.
Then one day, Fava gets up…. And it’s no longer cool to bully, harass or batter her. She flaps her tired wings and begins to soar like an eagle. And as she rises into the welcoming skies, she will briefly hear Jezy ranting: ‘Why won’t she let me fly too? Why does she have to be so mean, as to soar above my head. Why won’t she ‘let it go’, by remaining here on the ground. I need my fix of folly! And she has taken it away from me. Such act of unforgiveness!' Again, we the audience empathize.
Movie #3: Character A is wielding a knife in the first scene. By the third scene, the same knife that was once in A’s hand. Is now protruding, from the back of character B. (Wonders shall never cease). We then see Character A, standing right next to Character B. As that one writhes in excruciating pain. We do not know yet, how the knife got to stab Character B. All we know, is that the knife is now hanging from their back. And they are profusely bleeding to a slow death.
But before the audience can form a plausible question in their minds. They hear Character A in an awful lament. ‘Why won’t Character B talk to me? Why do they have to be so mean and ignore me? What happened is all in the past now.' (Does that include the active knife? We wonder.) Yes I had the knife in the first scene. I am no longer holding it now. Who is to judge? Why can’t Character A, ‘let it go’ and stop making so much noise. Gosh, it’s just a knife. And it has not killed them yet. Let it go already!' Ouch! We sincerely pray Character B lives to tell and let it go of course.
Credits roll: Executive Producers: Chioma Onwudiwe, Partners and Helpers and so fought and so on….
In conclusion: I sat by the bereaved mother. She had just buried two innocent and murdered sons. The atmosphere of grief was overwhelming. And all I could do was weep along with her. There were no words to roll out. No advice to give and no warnings to mete out. I just mourned along. Had I ever been in that exact situation, as she was in? No. And I pray never to be, amen. But I sure understood, exactly what it meant to hurt and deeply so. That was certainly not the time and place to tell or chastise her, about what to do. With whoever plunged that blade into her heart. You are least likely to measure and time hurt, when you have borne an exhaustive amount of it.
I have found that the most incessant, flippant and careless preachers of the phrase ‘let it go’. Are often the highest offenders. Fellow humans, (Or you human, me alien). If you have mistakenly, wronged or hurt someone. And you do feel remorse. However possible, try to fix what you broke. But if not, move on and pray that someday maybe. They can heal and release the pain and all that it entails. If you on the other hand. Deliberately set out to hurt, wound and/or destroy another and it back-fired. Please, please, please I beg of you. Do not erect an odious platform while running a self-centered campaign. Demanding your rights to be forgiven. It is highly repulsive.
And to you dear hurt victim: I pray that you heal and eventually forgive. Everyone else can only pray and when authorized and necessary, counsel. (Not bully). The choice is yours, always was.
Now to make this world a better place. Let’s make these movies a box office hit.
Written by one who is free indeed!