I WILL CATCH A GRENADE FOR YOU....

 

I don’t care about his rumoured sexual orientation, but I like Bruno Mars a lot, I mean his songs. One of my best songs of 2010/2011 is “Grenade” by this dude. Do I need to give u the lyrics? Ok, just a little bit… 

“I'd catch a grenade for you (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Throw my hand on a blade for you (yeah, yeah, yeah)
I'd jump in front of a train for you (yeah, yeah, yeah)
You know I'd do anything for you (yeah, yeah, yeah)
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes, I would die for you, baby………”

Lovely song! But hey, how many of us can actually catch a bullet for the one we love? Don’t answer, its rhetorical, and besides, I can guess what your answer is and what you will eventually do when the time comes to take that bullet, but God forbid.

Did you hear about the Colorado shooting last week? A gunman wearing a gas mask and sheathed head-to-toe in body armor opened fire in a theater packed for a midnight showing of a just-released Batman movie, killing at least 12 people and wounding 58 others.

I guess that’s no longer news, rather, what intrigued me is the revelation some days ago that 3 guys shielded their girlfriends from bullets, took a few and died. That’s right! Jon Blunk, Matt McQuinn and Alex Teves stood between the direction of the bullets and their girlfriends.

 

Let’s leave America and come back home to Naija. I’m just wondering, what will the average naija guy do, given the same circumstances as the Colorado shooting? Trust me, many will forget they have a date for the evening and take the next available exit, while a handful will even use their babe as bullet shield. Sounds weird and ridiculous, but it’s very true.

Hey, it’s not like I’m innocent myself, this should just be a food for thought for all of us. When you tell a girl or a guy “I love you”, and you believe it’s coming from the bottom of your heart, just make sure you know what you are going into, that if need be, you’d rather take the bullet than he or she.

Taking the bullet will not necessarily mean you have resolved and resigned to die. Could be that, “hey, I have a better chance of surviving than she does, I can as well take the fall”.

Ruminate on this as you go about the rest of this beautiful week! You are the best!

I love you.….*winks*

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