A gossip is said to be a conversation involving malicious chatter or rumors about other people. Before you read this piece, take a pause and ask your rommie, “Have you ever gossiped about me?” The answer is a big NO right? Note this, if your rommie brings someone to your room and the person keep stealing glances at you, it’s either you are the most beautiful person he/she has ever met or probably your rommie told him/her everything about you before she/he came to the room. Frankly speaking, ladies are known to be gossip mongers than guys.
The commonest gossip among guys is when they see a pretty lady and you hear them say “Charlie! The girl fine oo, see!!, she get goods ooo. Spy the community on her chest, eeeish this one di3 I get aaa” And the other guy will say “you derr you like women oo” and he will respond “masa masa )y3 Nyame abode3” This is the usual gossip among guys.
But for ladies, hmmm. Have you ever walked behind two or three ladies on the Mecca road before? Or sat behind two girls in class before? Especially at the extreme back of the class, the possible conversation is “I learnt she was dating her teacher in SHS oo,” and the other one will respond “eeii saa?” “Hmm yes oo” and the conversation will proceed. “She doesn’t know how to cook anything oo yet when she eats she can keep the bowl in the room for about a week without washing it” and the other one will chip in “you have seen nothing my dear, as for my roomie eerrr, she can bring her boyfriend to the room to sleep koraa, can you imagine? The most annoying part is, when you finish bathing he won’t get out for you to dress up ooo, the way it bores me errr. Worse of all, the boy too doesn’t have money, “eeiii saa?” yeh apuu! He has nothing” I am just praying that this semester will end soon so we’ll depart. “Hmmm, 3y3 asemooo”. ‘Like seriously’.
On the most serious note, there are many kinds of roommates you are likely to meet in your four year study in the university. The stingy ones who always tell you “I don’t have ooo”. And the talkative and master of complaints, they will talk and complain about everything in the room including the tiny ants in the room.They will complain about them to make you feel like you brought the ants to the room from home.
The quick angered ones, as for those ones, you just have to know the police emergency number off head because they can hang onto your neck at anytime. There are also some of the roommates who will treat you like a brother or sister. They will cook for you, show you true love and probably treat you like their biological sibling. It is always a blessing to have such roommates.
The fact is that you will never get everyone to behave the way you want so the best thing is to cope with people no matter how good or bad they are. Michelle Obama in Princeton University had a white lady called Donnelly as a roommate. The mother of the lady petitioned the school authority that her daughter couldn’t stay in a room with an African American. At the end, the white lady was moved to a different room. Today Michelle Obama is the first lady of America. I know the white lady and her mum might have regretted for their action. No one knows tomorrow, you may not know who your roommate will become in future. It could be that your roommate is the future president of Ghana. Sometimes the people we disregard in life are the very ones who God use to change our destinies.
I know there are many students who have issues with their roommates. Some are even not talking with each other. I just want to beseech you to iron out your differences. We must learn to live as brothers and sisters. We must rise from the ashes of hatred to pursue love for one another and it takes wisdom and maturity to achieve this.
Having grudges with our roommates will never take us anywhere. The little characters we display to our roommates are the ones we are likely to take into our future marriages. We must learn to live in peace with them and even if possible we should know their parents and siblings and relate with them cordially. Surprisely, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan was Nana Akuffo Addo’s roommate in Legon, Mr. Boadu Ayeboafo of Graphic Communications was once President Mahama’s roommate in Legon and Mr. Martin Yeboah of Kosmos Oil was once a roommate of Uhuru Kenyatta, the President of Kenya. Interesting to know this right? You may not know who your roommate will become in future. I wish you all the best. Say hi to your roommate for me, lol.
Never forget that “we are not children of a lesser god”. Thank you.
