RE: Contest | 25-Word Comment - Monkey Business | Drama
The streets of Lagos are filled with drama. It's the kind of drama you would expect to see in a movie. The wicked mother-in-law, the neglected kid stealing from a provision store and the hit-and-run driver.
These characters might not know that they have one thing in common. An audience. An audience waiting to devour every bit and pieces of the whole story, getting ready to narrate their own version to whoever cares to listen.
But that's a problem.
They get so hooked up in writing and editing the scene in their heads that they forget that these characters are also humans beings like them. A good example is an accident scene. There's a driver, a passenger and one is left traumatised after the event or both. One might survive, or both. There's an emergency but no one would be in a hurry as they all have their phones ready to get a good shot. The one who cares is asked if he studied medicine. A potential good Samaritan might not want to take the helpless victim to a hospital, in fear of been accused of his death.
They stare again and again. They try using water. They find out, it doesn't do anything, then they try to fan the victim before they all agree that, yes, they need to send this person to a hospital.
And most times, it's too late.
@arjinarahman @lawlet @sterii What do you have to say about drama?
With us no one would be in a hurry and if yiu can't 101 rules you have to follow befire an ambulance can be called. The streers of Lagos are everywhere but we close our eyes, ignore, walk by and mind our own business. Phone at home or in the picket no need to film the misery, no reason to stand still, no time to give aid.
And if you are the one serioysly harmed, barely alive and arrive in the hospital the first question will be: Do you have a health insurrance.
At most times you are send home.
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