A Young Girl's Imagination

We've all been there before, back in the day when we were just reach our teenage years or just starting that puberty stage: for a girl, starting your MP (menstrual period), for a boy having a piece of hair down that area (you all know the area I'm talking about, winks). Yes! We've all been there...wanting to grow up so fast so we can leave our parent's house and start a life of our own. Yep! that was me a few years ago, I just turned 14 yrs old and I envisioned myself having my own place, working with a nice company and just owning it all to myself. Too young huh, well what can I say...thoughts start to run wild when we find ourselves in places we really do not want to be. Right? Anyways, for me: It all started ooo, this imaginations of mine When my aunt sent me to go and grind pepper 2 houses away from ours (yes, I'm sure a few of us has done that before) unless you no go chop that night if you know what I mean. So quit rolling yours eyes like you've never put a large bowl full of tatase, tomatoes and rodo with onions on your head with osuka (head gear) to prevent the peppery water from soaking right into your hair. Do I hear a yes! ok now. Anyways so as I carried my bowl of all those a ta la ti se o be (red peppers 4 soup) on my head, looking all scruffy like I haven't had a shower all morning with my bath-room slippers on to the grinder's shop, of course cursing out my aunt in between and wondering why in the world she had to send me when the house-girl Siriki was there doing practically nothing. Ah! I ya ti je ota mi rin oooo, ko n se di e (my enemy has suffered once before, no be small). Hmm...sha I got to where I was to grind my pepper only to meet two young girls as myself already there in the same predicament waiting to also grind their bowl of peppers. As I sat down to wait for my turn, my mind gave way on me and before I knew it.... I started thinking of how my college days will be like, the cool and chicky girl friends I would have and the tall, handsome guys that would come ask me out to date me, woo me or marry me (which ever I'm interested in at the time) and I will have to decide and choose from the list. The interesting and fun parties, I would attend and how trendy and classy I would be amongst my friends, better yet stand-out from them all. Oh! How beautiful those days will be, how exciting and awesome my life would feel. I would graduate and then start working with an Oil Company because I would have my Bachelors degree in Petroleum Engineering, be my own boss for my boss and have staffs working for me. How my already working fiance would come take me out to lunch and we would walk hand in hand and eyes would fall upon us saying..."aww, look how cute they look together". Hmm...life will be so sweet, I can't wait. Thoughts of preparing for that two days better yet three days event, yes! my walking down the aisle to meet the man of my dreams, the man who swept me away at "hello" and swept me back in again at "would you be mine forever". Gosh! did I already say I can't wait...How we would live in our home with three kids (2 boys and a girl) and how happy and joyful our family would be. How.....how... how...and then I heard someone calling me back to reality and disrupting my beautiful and perfect thoughts. Oh! It was the grinder calling my name...my turn to grind my peppers and head back home to an aunt who despite all my parent's assistance to her treats me like a damn slave. ARGH!!! Anyways point is, as a young child we've all had different imaginations of how our life would be when we finally get to that stage when we can make lone decisions. I would love to hear some of the imaginations you had as a young gal or lad. Let's make this fun and interesting, aight? Much luv