BONUS SATIRE

Umm… Excuse Me, I Did Not Get The $500 Bonus

If you’re like me, gather here for a cohort conference; This can’t be right

Blessing Oluchukwu Awamba
ILLUMINATION
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3 min readMay 10, 2021

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A woman lying down on a park bench, with her hand over her face. There’s an inscription on the wall saying “Wake me up when I’m famous”. Indicating that I cannot be bothered about the Medium writers challenge
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I woke up Friday morning to lots of articles talking about a mysterious $500 being added to 1000 writers' April 2021 earnings. A whooping thousand and I was excluded?

These writers left us here and walked to the Medium podium to pick up their cheques with a wide grin.
They should have been more somber. Should have looked to us for permission to accept their gift. There should have been no victory lap.

My thoughts went from Awww, that’s so sweet, to those writers are so lucky, to I’d like to be in that 1000 someday, to hitting my head saying ‘Why not me?’
Then, I countered with a ‘Why me?’ That sums up to four stages of grief.

How many stages did you go through?

I made sure to read as many ‘Yay! I got the bonus’ articles. To torture myself some more and see what the fuss is about these other writers. Hmmph.
Notice my ‘other writers’? It is intentional. These writers left us here and walked to the Medium podium to pick…

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Blessing Oluchukwu Awamba
ILLUMINATION

I write about life; as I experience it, as I know it; as it could be better.