Lekan Sote[email protected]The vicissitudes of life, some of which this writer has experienced in the past few years, and even recently, have caused some deep thinking and reflections about this dog or drag of a life that sages have concluded is ungovernable. Who feels it, knows it: If you lost your father to a car crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, lost your mother to a heart attack, and also lost a wife to a death that you always hoped would never come, then, you’d understand those who say life is a drag. The song that talks about life in an orphanage, regrets that instead of treats, kisses, kindness, woollen blankets for warmth, and a full stomach, orphans rather get hard knocks out of life. For the orphans, it’s always going to be a dog’s life full of hard knocks, without let. The hard life that Annie, Oliver Twist and the other orphans always have to endure is the same for a lot of people who, perforce, must live life under the hard shades of life.

Source: Punch December 24, 2019 23:15 UTC