Right before my eyes!

It was one of those days when everyone had somewhere to be, school was on break. Which meant I would be alone, something I don’t like. Anyway why I remember this day so much is that, in the afternoon right when I decided to take a walk. I heard some weird sharp noise coming from a distance, followed by drumming, then there was a loud cheer, I wondered what it was. I steeped out of my gate on a mission to take a walk, the sound grew louder. But walked on. I didn’t pay much attention to this because people often did weird things around.

I get to the main road, am walking on the pavement and as I approach the end of this road, just before my eyes are these bare chested macho men, thick and tall with cutlasses in their hands approaching, the others were colorfully dressed with drums. They were loudly singing warrior songs.  They stopped in front of me, as if they were looking for me. I quickly froze, panting, confused, not sure what was happening or about to happen or even what to do.

 Immediately , these men stopped singing two of the bare chested men moved forward with their cutlasses ready to attack, they actually passed the cutlass over their arms and chest continuously, just like you’ll do to slice a piece of meat, or cut  something tough  but this time vigorously. Each movement of the cutlass on their skin gave this sharp loud sound that could be heard miles away. Amazingly enough the cutlass as sharp as it was left no scar or cut, no bleeding or painful expression just the man celebrating his inability to be cut.

After each risky performance they danced and yea, people showered them with money, as for me, I was still trying to understand what just happened. Because this was real before my eyes.

I was out of my mind, why would anyone try something like this. This is one of the experiences I will never forget.