Thread by @tolanialli

A Rare Occurrence: A Lesson From 'Emptiness'.

Sometimes, Life chooses to stay beautiful without the many trappings we regard as norm, or standard.

So usually when we travel (state visit or official trip) there’ll be a red carpet, security and airport officials, and the Vice President’s Official Vehicle in front of the plane, so what happened here?

The pilot had informed @profosinbajo midair that we wouldn’t be able to land in Edo from Owerri due to bad weather and that he had to divert the plane so we could land in Abuja until the weather situation in Edo got better... it didn’t.

Due to last minute change in plans it was difficult to inform the apparatus on ground that we would be landing in Abuja, hence the birth of this picture.

I learnt two things;

1) The importance of staying faithful to a working routine. See, I'd wished for images like this for a while, images of the VP that betray the predictability of the "official" just to complete the narrative, but they hardly come.

Undismayed though, I always try to stay ready, and when you’ve put in the work, God will reward your hard-work.

2) Life, sometimes, can be so bohemian. It loves the unconventional, the unpredictable. Life, without all the expected trappings; and it chooses when it likes to show us the beauty of it.

#TolaniAlli #Storyteller