365 DAYS AROUND THE SUN
The morning in Lagos is already loud and alive. From the keke napep I boarded just outside my house, to the bustling BRT terminal up ahead, everything is moving — horns blaring, danfo buses weaving through traffic, and street vendors pacing the sidewalks with baskets of gala, groundnuts, and chilled water balanced on their heads. I’m half-awake, absorbing it all. No, it’s not December 31st. It’s not my birthday. It’s just a random Thursday — May 22nd, 2025 . But for some reason, today feels reflective. A line from a Kojey Radical song pops into my head: “Spent another 365 around the sun.” And it hits me like a wave. Sitting in the BRT, window slightly cracked, I let the thought linger: 365 around the sun? The sun itself doesn’t move — it’s the Earth that does. Constantly spinning, rotating at over 1,000 miles per hour, while orbiting the sun at an even more mind-blowing speed. That means somewhere on Earth, at every second, the sun is shining. And if it’s dark in Lagos, it’s bright i...