Since I heard Burnaboy declare in his “Breakfast” hit song, “Last last, na everybody go chop breakfast,” I have disagreed. Being an entertainment content doesn’t override the untruth in those words. Only two categories of people are mostly bound to “chop” breakfast, becoming veteran victims of romantic heartbreaks: Those yet to find their life’s purpose and those who found but forgot their life’s purpose.
First, those ignorant about their life’s purpose tend to give romance an overestimated place in their lives. They believe that a chunk of their happiness depends on love and its expressions from the opposite gender; their obsession with marriage is unequalled. This makes them open their arms towards anyone who is loving and meets their shallow physical criteria. Absence of a solid life vision relegates them to going with the flow. Typically, they wail, embrace misandry/misogyny, contemplate or/and commit suicide when this love flow ebbs away.
Second, those who forget their life’s purpose yield either to personal or family/societal pressures. Here, bodily desires overpower their focus on purpose, making them accommodate people who had no business in their lives at all; very few are undisturbed by their departure. Also, they are swayed by the “God-when” shouts from peers online/offline and overflowing counsels from relatives to be marriage ready. Then they resort to shallow criteria, making lifetime mistakes with deep scars. Any breakfast customer in the past, present and future, after thorough enquiry, is in either of these two categories.
The exceptions to romantic heartbreaks or breakfast are those who have found and are living by their life’s purpose. Awareness of the number one position of why they are makes romance either secondary or useless (some become monks, reverend fathers and sisters, or hermits). Eventual involvement in romance in view of marriage is guided by purpose. Most part of their hearts belong to purpose, they can’t be served breakfast. You can end all those heartbreaks, repeated tears, trauma, sanity/life threats by finding and living your life’s purpose. Not everybody will eat breakfast.
©Kelechi O. Naze (KON)
