OPLUEAS Lifestyle

After a particularly exhausting day, a young woman returned home, dropped her bag beside the bed and sat quietly for several minutes. There were still unfinished tasks waiting, messages that needed replies and thoughts that refused to settle. Nothing seemed worth doing. She picked up her phone and played an old favourite song. One song became two, then three. Slowly, the silence in the room disappeared. She began humming, then smiling. The problems were still there. The unfinished work had not disappeared. Yet something about the atmosphere had changed. By the time the music stopped, she opened her laptop and returned to the work she had abandoned earlier. Nothing had changed around her. Something had changed within the moment. Introduction Music is life! I have heard this line over and over again. Ever imagined life without sounds, beats, lyrics and rhythms? Charles Darwin said, "If I had my life to live over again, I would make a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music...

By 6:00am, Chinedu was already on his way to work. He had left home early enough to beat the morning rush. His shirt was neatly ironed, his bag was packed, and he had even skipped breakfast because he did not want anything delaying him. But by 7:15am, his bus had barely moved. Another bus squeezed into the lane. A danfo stopped suddenly to pick up passengers. Motorcycles appeared from nowhere. Cars pushed into spaces that barely existed. Everyone seemed to be in a hurry, yet nobody was going anywhere. Chinedu looked at his watch again. 7:30am. Then 7:45am. The driver sighed and tapped the steering wheel impatiently. Someone inside the bus called the office to explain that they were stuck in traffic. Chinedu opened his phone and stared at the time again. 8:00am was getting closer. He had done his part. He woke up early. He left home early. Yet somehow, he was still going to arrive at work late. Let me research this thoroughly before writing.Let me also research self-blame, stress and wo...