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What Do You Do with a Drawer Full of Old Socks?

One day we found the time and learned some lessons

Obinna Uruakpa
Human Parts
5 min readAug 24, 2023

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Photo by Kate Laine on Unsplash

Have you noticed how you would be up and about all day, even driving over long distances, and as you get home, your bladder now remembered to announce it’s been under unbearable pressure and can’t be patient?
You rush into the loo even before you stop to park the car properly.

At other times, you walk into your home, and you are suddenly a deflated balloon, and if you don’t rush to the shower, you may drop off to sleep in your work dress. The energy you had all day takes a deep dip. You are Samson after the haircut.

Those are the times you litter your space, leaving your shoes on the floor of the wrong room and not on the shoe rack, the books and magazines you came home with you on the dining table. You may retrieve them later and tuck them away properly, and your socks go into the reserved wardrobe drawer. That drawer is for clean pairs of socks. Supposedly!

You always visit it in a hurry, when you are ready to go out or when you are tidying up. That drawer needs tidying up. There’s no arrangement.

“When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.
So I stopped…

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Obinna Uruakpa
Obinna Uruakpa

Written by Obinna Uruakpa

I am your Brother and a Seeker of the Infinite. I came this time among the Igbos. I share the sights, sounds, and scents of my journey in simple stories. .

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