Our media has so mastered the
art of crafting screaming headlines that sometimes one will see one and choose
to ignore it because some of those headlines eventually turn out to be mere
bombast.
Such a headline gets you
thinking twice until you dig up the celebrated MC’s fortnight-old vlog chat
with retired radio veteran, Crystal Newman, posted on her Youtube channel at
the tail-end of last month.
The immediate thoughts that
spring to mind are the five Ws and the accompanying solitary H that the world
considers basic steps in information gathering – Who/What/When/ Where/Why/How.
Your mind gets piqued. You
want to know what could have come over your favorite celebrity at the time when
he wanted the world to see the last of him.
Somebody who’s always seemed
to closer to God than your wretched self has no business toying with suicidal
thoughts, you imagine.
A guy who’s held a title
considered by many as the pinnacle of corporate employment for the last decade
or so that you’ve known him. Manager something-something, now Corporate
“General” at Kwese TV.
He, surely, must be having
everything under control.
How wrong! In that hour+ long
interview, Ben almost bares it all. He reveals things not many men will have
the courage to publicly reveal because the world will either call them selfish
or brand them cowards (or something worse).
From threats to publish his
photo in a newspaper because one bank loan went bad (he still asked them to let
him choose which photo they could use) to that much publicised church apology
among others, he says it all.
His is a story you want to
read and pore more into his journey. You suddenly realize how human we all are,
at the end of the day. The epiphany probably reminds you of the time when your
own thoughts almost pondered a similar trajectory.
That’s the life we live.
Sometimes society sees a different picture from what we really are. Sometimes
happiness is not all about our lofty ambitions. “It’s all about finding
happiness at your level”, he coos, towards the end of the interview.
And that’s how a man whose
dream car is a Bentley Bentayga chooses to profess puppy love to a 20-year old
Toyota Ipsum. Like it’s the only car he’s ever known.
