Winning Surprise...

 Have you ever tried so hard to get or achieve something that it gave you sleepless nights, because you kept brooding on how to plan and strategize on how to attain success.

You toiled, struggled, gave it your best shot, said a little prayer and then yes you got it! It is supposed to be the best feeling in the world!
You feel so happy that you pour yourself some fine wine and even feel so irie, that you spoil yourself with fine dining, in a 5 star restaurant somewhere in the highbrow area in Victoria Island. You go further to indulge yourself in expensive designer perfumery. You're flying without wings, the world feels weightless with no single burden. Why wouldn't it feel so, you just won!

Then the reality sets in, when you find out that all you have been toiling for from the outside is so shallow on the inside. It is all a façade!

"Girl I have been fooled oh, gosh!" " What happened" I asked. " Can you imagine, that Deji is such a pig" " Haba, it's not true now, that fine boy?" " Mehn I thought he was as clean as he looked and dressed, he lives in a sty!" " Wow, that's serious, so stys exists in that highbrow area?" " Yes oh, I almost threw up when I got to his place, even tiptoed to get to the chair in the living room" " What, why!!!" " Clutter everywhere" " To think that you did everything possible to get his attention" " I tire oh, what didn't I do! Abeg I'm not interested in him anymore, even if he is Mr Nigeria" " Lol sorry dear, let me take you for a drink to pacify you"

Sometimes what we actually hope for isn't what it actually is, until we get quite close to see. Most times the grass isn't always greenest on the other side.
Have you ever been utterly shocked and surprised by what you claimed to have achieved?