Odiere_desk

Back in the hostel while I was in school, my roommates and I weren’t close in the beginning. Everyone was doing their own thing.  But as the semester was drawing to an end, we started going out together. Eating together. Complaining about lecturers together. Completing each other’s sentences.  And then something surprising happened. Our periods started syncing.  One week, 3 of us were on our period at the same time. Cramps, chocolate cravings, and mood swings in one room. We thought we were cursed. That’s when I started wondering: is this real? Or is my body just playing games with me? Remember health class?  They taught us the basics. Pads vs tampons. Cramps mean "take Panadol." Don’t swim. Don’t drink cold water. Don’t get pregnant.  But nobody told us about the weird stuff. The stuff that makes you stare at your body like, "wait... my body does THAT??" Nobody warned me that my period could feel like a group project with my roommate. Or that I coul...