How many Layers do you have?

I have been going through tweets by my friends in the past few minutes.
Reading tweets by people sometimes is like watching their lives on a screen, at least for those who have something to say per second.

This one in particular caught my attention and you may ask me why? " I am examining the layers of my life". It tickled my fancy and so I replied " How many layers do you have?".

Now back to the reason why the question caught my attention. It reminded me of the study of the skin in biology class. In elementary school we learned about the two main layers of the skin, the Dermis and the Epidermis. We had to draw simple diagrams but as we progressed into senior class in secondary school we had to do more complex diagrams showing,blood vessels connective tissues, sweat glands,sweat pores, hair follicles, oily glands and so on.
I can remember the first time I glanced at a more detailed diagram of the skin how dizzy I felt instantly. I would not say I was scared but I would rather flip over to the next page and study something else because I felt it was too complicated for me to understand let alone know all its layers and functions.

The skin is the largest organ of the human body. Our skin reflects the types of genes we possess, and our state of health either good or bad. The blood vessels contain nutrients and all the requirements to help protect us from UltraViolet rays, extreme temperatures, injury and infections.

To drive the story home, self examination is useful, as many times as we get the chance.

Just as we exercise, ensure an adequate daily diet for nourishment, a bath and we use cosmetics and all kinds of skin care products, we need to feed ourselves daily with thoughts and get involved in activities that would shed out excellence.

We are to borrow from the past,the experiences that polish us.
Forget the failures and only using them as a sponge to scrub the dead layers off our "life skin"

Once again the inspiring tweet " I am examining the layers of my life" I answer this time
"I am examing the layers of my life too!"

Where were we?

The fact that I have not been able to access the internet with my
laptop has just been the right excuse for me to neglect my blog(not
justifying myself) although I've had loads of interesting events and
days of my life in the past months.
I hope to find the right words to narrate the tales of my Nigerian
Youth Service Corp Orientation camp on KM 27 Mallam Sidi Gombe State.
I can only but for now describe those three weeks as most interesting,
eventful, fantastic,life changing and hilarious. I must say that the
whole idea of the NYSC is superb, the fun, the lessons drawn, the
independence and realisations.
At the time of this composition, we have already experienced floodings
in two major cities (Lagos and Ibadan), two bombings (police
headquarters and united nations building) in Abuja and we still face
threats from a terrorist body (bokoharem) of which we cannot place one
face to.
We cannot trust our national security nor our government as they have
not respected us. You cannot walk casually into a shop on Ojuelegba
road or on Adeniran Ogunsanya Surulere without beckoning on the
attendant because they are under lock and key even at the peak of the
buisness hours.
Our country cannot boast of possessing data that gives current
information of atleast one quarter of its populace. Most parents and
guardians would have sleepless nights for one year till their loved
ones return from a service "under the sun or in the rain, with
dedication and selflessness" to a people that do not acknowledge them.

Away from the ordeals, it is nice to know that I can now post my
thoughts whenever via the mobile network.