The Rainbow, 'ROYGBIV' and Trump's Twitter 'thumped'

Another week drawing down, the previous ended with a visit to nature - I enjoyed walking the sands of the Wharf beach (Congo, Pointe Noire) doing two things - reflecting on any and everything and at a point settling on a 'parked' canoe to read. Felt good, was all fun.

Tell you what was more fun barely 24 hours later, for the first time in a long while had the joy of seeing a rainbow. Yup, a coloured sky as nature lit the usually whitish and ashy or is it grey skies.

T'was after the day's work this Monday as I headed home, a head lift and I wowed at the colour mix in the distance. Of my exclamations: "Allah Akbar, Mashaa Allah, Subhaanal Laah," words of praise to the creator of the weather, the Lord and master of the rainbow and the rains that had fallen earlier.

Throwback to high school days when man had to memorize the colours of the rainbow in a particular order. That was when I gave birth to the acronym "ROYGBIV." ROYGBIV = Red - Orange - Yellow - Green - Blue - Indigo - Violet.

Spent better part of that night laughing to myself about ROYGBIV whenever I flipped my phone gallery looking at the photos I'd captured of the 'moment'

Now to social media issues. microblogging site Twitter this week doubled its character limit which formerly stood at 140. They, however, made headlines after Donald Trump's account was temporarily suspended.

Here was the reason they gave: "Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee. The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored. We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again."  

Now, this is the social media some people can't do without. Yet, it technically is in the hands of some people who could "black you out" without hustle. See, even whatsapp had challenges earlier this week. For me, it's a signal to chill out with this whole social media thing.

It should perhaps spur us on to question ourselves over our deeds and the time we spend on social media. What will become of all the things you did because of social media if today, the platforms don't exist?

Maybe we should learn to live off it at least once in a while. Switch off the data, if you can; employ the extreme measure of deleting the apps. Slide back into the days of phone calls and person - to - person chat. It's refreshing, trust me.

Thanks as always for reading my mind. I'd be back next week - insha Allah. May HE keep and bless us all. Aameen.