First, Life.
What’s with us humans and sex? Funny thing, I sat through a 30 minute lecture about the pros and cons of sex on my birthday this year. All the good it can do and all the bad it can bring. Dr. Mrs. Daramola sure know how to tread those paths. I was just nodding and grinning from ear to ear like an idiot. I’ll let you know what I’m thankful for about sex and the sex lecture later. It was in 1992, if memory serves me right. I was a JSS 2 student at Unity Secondary School, Ikere-Ekiti. The school coaster bus had just dropped what load it was carrying and was heading towards the parking lot. The playful bunch we were, we loved to jump unto moving vehicles that had come to drop items at the school kitchen behind the dining halls. This fateful day, the sun had found its way across the football pitch beyond the school gate, turning the western sky crimson. We were idling around the car park, some friends and I, waiting for dinner bell when the bus emerged between the dining halls. W...