SIMPLY SAMAD: THIS IS WHO I AM

SIMPLY SAMAD

THIS IS WHO I AM

CHAPTER 1

My name…is…Samad… - Simply Samad. I am not the fastest, strongest, smartest, most intelligent, bravest, craziest, most creative, most caring, daring, richest, best looking or most outspoken man on earth but believe me, there’s a healthy dose of all these in me. It is what makes me who I am. My name is… Samad… - Simply Samad. I am who I am. There is no one out there like me. There can only be one. Out there, there are many who have less than what I have and those who have more than I have but… the fact remains – There will never be another me. My capacity to love is legendary. If you doubt this, then follow me a bit further into these lines.

Once upon a time, I met her; sometime in 200? (Strangely, I can’t recall precisely when). It started with an acquaintance, friendship and then something much deeper. Yes! It was affection…a feeling so strong, it was irresistible. I loved her and so did she.

However, there was a third party. Like me, he also had feelings for her. He refused to die in silence and made his desires known.

Unfortunately, he came, he saw but could not conquer. It hurt him badly because he could not understand. I was young. She was younger. He was older, more experienced, richer and had more influential friends than I did yet he kept his eyes on the prize. He had a lot of things… including a gun. Yes! He had a gun.

NOTE: These are not fictitious lines (Let’s proceed).

One day, something happened. There was a kiss in public while the sun wasn’t up and in a flash, voices were raised and then, there was a gun – pointed straight at my chest. He had his hand on the trigger. She could not dare to watch, took more than a few steps away; screaming her lungs out in fear yet, the gun remained pointed at my chest.

I did not die as made manifest from these lines not because I was immortal but because my name is… Samad… Simply Samad. This is who I am.

*Fade Out*

This is where it all begins.

Simply Samad: This is where it all begins