LTC: A movement born of restlessness.
“I am restless”.
If you have ever had cause to interact with me in real life then you know just how true this is.
The date is 18th of October 2020 and I am even more restless than usual.
If I had a gun pointed to my head and was asked to recount what I spent said day doing, I’d be a dead man. But one thing I do remember is the restlessness that plagued me all through.
My antidote for combating my more intense restless moods has always been to write, to write about anything that comes to mind, my notes app is littered with tons of drafts that would probably never see the light of day.
It wasn’t any different on this day, I turned to my notes app and my thoughts took off on a trail of their own, my fingers blasting the words off on my keypad, I can’t remember what I wrote but I do remember what came to me in the process of writing, it wasn’t a particularly spectacular or different idea as ideas go.
It was an idea for a community of creatives based in Ibadan where all people did all day was talk about pop-culture, having wide encompassing conversations around every facet of pop-culture (music, movies, fashion, etc.), and get to meet new people. I remember thinking about how we could do things differently, the more I thought about it, the more excited I got.
Now, an offshoot of my restless nature is that I have commitment issues, I could be excited about an idea or person today and by the next day, I’d have moved on. I remember saying to myself “It has to be different this time, you actually have to sustain the energy.”
But being my restless self, a couple of minutes later I was already moving on and had pretty much started losing the drive. I remember chatting with my friend — Moyo later that night.
As a last shot at trying to make something of the idea I’d earlier had, I decided to pitch Moyo on the idea (Mo’ as I call her is literally one of the most focused people I know when it comes to execution) I tell myself “If she is down with the idea, then I’d try committing to this.”
The moment Mo’ said she was down, I remember how my excitement peaked once again, I went on a VN spree barraging her DM with my ramblings, and being the more balanced of both of us, she took the time to actually listen to them. (I don’t think I’d have the patience)
Since then, the idea has seen a lot of iterations from its original form and has evolved to this — “build a community of people talking culture, share original content revolving around Nigerian youth culture with the world.”
The last few days have seen us laying the groundwork for what’s to come and I can’t wait for us to properly show workings.
We are called “Let’s Talk Culture” and I can definitely say that I have never been more committed to anything in my life.
P.S: You can join our community here.
