Thursday, April 7, 2011

Chizy's definition of a perfect man

I was on Linda Ikeji's blog last week, and she had a post reporting comedian Seyi Law's white wedding. Like most of her wedding/ marraige posts, i expected the usual 'happy married life to them' but instead, there were mostly comments like:



Vanessa said... "congrats to dem....but ds seyi law tk style wowo sha"








Natasha said... "Vanessa u took the words right out of my mouth, lol i was going to say it but as i was seeing all the "Congratulations" and happy "married life" messages, i decided to respect masef lol"




Funny comments they are obviously, but if you check out the rest of their wedding pictures and some of their ordinary pictures on facebook, you can tell the couple look very happy and excited. I have no problem whatsoever with the comments, instead, it inspired this post and really got me thinking ... who is the perfect man? Is he the man that seems perfect in the eye of the world (your family and friends especially) or the one that makes you happy? or do you have to strive hard to find a combination of both, bearing in mind that the Nigerian culture only permits a girl to search between ages of 18 and 25? (of course if you search any earlier you are a bad and untrained child; if it is any later you are expired and family pressure kicks in).



It is normal for a girl to have the perfect definition of her dream man and I am no exception. I stand at a leggy 5ft 10 with a huge crush on 3 inches heeled stilettos, hence i define my dream man as tall (at least 6ft2), not so slim (muscular is a plus), dark skinned, not ugly, fancy named job, wealthy, he has to be from my tribe, and the list goes on. Oh!!! i forgot to add that lately, some girls pray for a man whose mother is late because they don't want mother inlaw problems lol......

Anyway, growing up, i found that in reality, my attraction to a man is far from the physical, it has always been inbuilt; his personality, character, fear of God and ofcourse his feelings for me, may be not his financial resources at the time, but at least his financial prospects (or is he the type that will keep his handsome self in the house while i work full time and at the same time cater for the home and our children). Height, language, tribe, looks, fancy named job, skin color, wealth etc at the time form the least of my thoughts.

Now tell me;
I'm i a slacker or have i been watching too many Hollywood and too little Nollywood movies? OR
I'm i the definition of a sensible young Nigerian lady who wants God's will to be done?
While picking your stand on this, have the below pictures of happy looking couples in mind.



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