The Diary Game [29th March, 2026] // A Day of Faith, Food, and Making something new.
To-day was a full day in a silent sort of manner. Not the high, melodramatic type of full, but the type where when you get into bed at night, you have found that a great deal has really occurred. Today had me on the move, as I got ready to go to church in the morning and worked on a video in the evening.
In the morning, there was the old routine of getting ready to go to church. I selected my garments and threw them on the bed a dark navy Hawaiian print shirt, a pair of dark trousers, and something to match. Then I took my black leather pair of shoes.
They are ancient but they have life in them, and I gave them a cursory cleaning before putting them on. Dressing up to attend the church sets you in the right mood. There is more than the appearance. It is a form of deliberate action, such as you are talking to yourself, *this is important.
I went to church and I am happy to have done so. It happened at Light Nation, and the interior was gay and pleasant. They were seated in gold chairs mostly in white and they felt that there was a real worship going on in the room. The Nigerian flag was still standing in the corner, and it always provides a pleasant feeling of belonging and affiliation.
I enjoyed the service a lot. It is the type of church experience that you feel recharged and reiterated about what is really important. It was a feeling being in that room among other believers that something settled down upon the inside of me.
Upon arrival home, I sat down to have a rest and continued reading my personal development book at the moment, The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel. I am still in the process of reading it and the pages that I read today made me think. The part discussed how individuals purchase costly items believing that it would give them status, yet in real sense, no other individual would pay much attention to the owner of the items when they already have them, they are too preoccupied dreaming about the position. It got me thinking about how status and its pursuit is so easy to follow rather than substance. I have read a few pages and this few pages were sufficient to sit on.
Having read, it was time to cook. I had settled down to preparing vegetables and stew to accompany eba as evening meal. I cleaned and cut the green ones, ugwu or whatever, and they appeared fresh and bright lying in that yellow and blue bowl on the kitchen counter. Then I set to the stew, chopping and prioritizing the ingredients with my hands there on the kitchen floor in the traditional residential Nigerian manner of home-cooking. Nothing is glamorous about preparing food in a tiny kitchen area but very fulfilling about preparing your own food. It was deserved by the time I sat to eat eba with vegetables and stew later in the evening.
Another thing that I did today and which I am also quietly excited about is the fact that I signed up on Rumble. This is something that I had been planning to do and today I sat down and sorted it out. The name I will use is Talesfromtheoldworld and that is an excellent name that clearly fits the type of dark mythology and ancient tales content I am going to post there. I created the profile photo, which was a dramatic shot of a cloaked old man that definitely conveys the atmosphere of the channel, and scanned the notification options and information about the page display. I was glad to get that off the list. Everything is still in its early stages but every great thing begins with a small step.
Afterwards in the night, I reached the video editing. I closed my editing application and edited one of the prayer videos on my Facebook page. This video included the Jesus avatar that I use in the Daily Prayers and FansOfJesus content a ruler and a king, sitting on a throne, with a crown, reaching out to the audience. The auto captions had already been created and I was now editing and positioning the clips. The video in total was approximately 16-17 seconds, which is the golden zone of the type of content that is consumed on Facebook and does not require a long duration. I took time to ensure that the captions were clean and the flow was correct.
Before I was through it was late in the evening. I retrospected at the day and was sincerely content with it. Morning church, afternoon good book, homemade food, platform prepared, and something to go out. It was not a perfect day. It was just a real one. And days such as these are what are ultimately counted.