“We live in a world that thrives on plus and minus, why does everyone desire the plus when I feel the minus and the minus when I feel the plus?”
Aye Itanje, meaning “life of deceit” or “deceit of life” is a canvas of emotions that characterizes the negligence of humans to one another, a default desensitization.
The abandon that as entities, there are layers of experience and influence that orchestrate personality to which often times, the arrant display of demeanor could be a fence or an open sea.
More than most, we remain void of expressive fluidity and sometimes, filled with expressive fluidity however, in a state of inventive posturing to accommodate orchestrated demeanors at moments necessitated even if it’s out of our desire.
A tool of power to some, and to others, a mechanical oppression.
Written on the background, a Yoruba proverb:
“Gbogbo ẹni tó di ojú kọ́ ló ńsùn; gbogbo ojú tí a là sílẹ̀ kọ́ ló ń ríran.”
“Not all those who close their eyes are sleeping; not all eyes that are wide open are seeing.”
Which translates to:
Appearance can be deceptive; look beyond the obvious, always.