Absurdly Funny & Perfectly Weird Things about Being 23

I’ve been an ardent Swift fan, I sing her song with fervour, for the past year, when it gets to the song — 22, I’m always like “yes! I’m already that age…or was. So I’m here thinking, this might be the last time I sing this song with assertion, let’s make this right of passage a memorable one. Here are 22 absurdly funny and perefctly weird things about a twenty-three-year-old.

• I created an alter personality, Brenda Girl to deal with my irregularities when I was 13
• I’d take Rivers native soup over any other kind of Nigerian soup any day anytime
• I’m not keen on Nigerian Music but have you heard Kiss Daniel’s Poko?
• I’ve kept a journal every year since I was 16, I hope it becomes a prized antique like Anne Franks’ someday.
• Give me peanut butter, you can keep nutella
• I’m not exactly who you want to be in your kitchen because I never stick to a recipe

• Ehm, what else, I’m sick on K-pop and K-drama, currently gushing over Roy Kim
• What’s the big deal about Marvel and DC movies, I’ve had a secret crush on Spiderman’s Peter Parker for 10 years now.
• Once upon a time, I wanted to be an explorer, you know, the kind you see on National Geographic I still carry that spirit of adventure
• I think I have a superpower, I complete people’s sentences with an 85% accuracy…in my head.
• Pink was my favourite colour, then it became orchid was last year, now I’m obsessed with a particular shade of brown called Cocoa Brown
• The Concubine is my favourite Nigerian book and Elechi Amadi, therefore, is my favourite Nigerian author.
• When I was 9, I nabbed a book, only to find out it was a philosophy expose from Socrates to Nietzsche, of course, I cried for my wasted effort.
• I love to sing, anywhere, streets, bathrooms, my room, if you spot a girl dancing weird on the road, it’s probably me.
• I love to sing, anywhere, streets, bathrooms, my room, if you spot a girl dancing weird on the road, it’s probably me

obviously, I couldn’t fit under the rock which makes me taller, right?

• I can’t get over Dev Patel of Slum Dog Millionaire, I think it’s the best movie ever.
• I used to sleep with a Macmillian map under my pillow in school, just to go over it in the morning.
• My crush wrote me a 27 paged letter that I never read. I lost it.
• We definitely can have two crushes right? I also have a crush on Milo Ventimiglia of HBO’S Series — This is Us.
• Watch the breakdown. Damn. Lauryn Hill revolutionized Drake’s gotta make the a** jump. We gonna be nice for what to these ni**as. Drake’s Nice for what is just it.
• I haven’t put a pencil on paper to draw in ages, if I do, I’ll feel better. Drawing makes me feel better.
• I have a folder for everything on my phone and my desktop is screaming from so many specialized folders
• The longest time I’ve spent writing is 4 hours, I wrote a large part of my first novel when I was 16 in an uncompleted building
• I love inhaling my mother’s scent. I still haven’t gotten over the smell of her warmth
• At ten, I was already reading romantic novels and I was 13 when I knew the word bisexual, I thought you had to have both reproductive organs to be bisexual.
• In 2007, flood ravished my home, I developed my fear for cold and water after stepping my feet in cold water for weeks.
• I really don’t want to get old, or add to my age, I feel this won’t permit me to keep my childhood spirit. 18 is my golden age.
• Really, I’m a good dancer. No jokes. I just don’t know how to shake my booty.
• What do I want in life? It’s really simple. I want the last scene of 3 idiots, that scene where kids could make and read anything they wanted.
• My favourite cartoon is Walt Disney’s Meet the Robinsons
• I smile to strangers and they smile back.
• I believe in a God, a master designer that takes our weaknesses, our strengths and experiences and creates a super story.

Let’s just say we went overboard, this should be more than twenty-two. This was so much fun to write, I hope you had fun reading it, share some absurdly funny things you’ve never told anyone about on Twitter and Instagram @herownherogirl.

with love,

from herownherogirl