About Me — Reginald Ben-Halliday. Hi! I’m Reggie and I’m single.
By: Reginald Ben-Halliday
Tags: Writer, Introduction, Lifestyle, About Me, Singles

Hello people of the world, I am Reginald Ben-Halliday. You can either call me Reggie, Reg, Ben, Haly, Halliday or you can be creative with the three names above, and call me whatever comes to your mind.

Hahaha. Just joking, Please just call me Reggie.

I am not sure I have anything interesting about myself to share to the world, but I would write something. Don't worry I would make this quick and hopefully not boring.

I am from an island called Bonny, in the Southern part of Rivers state, Nigeria. Despite the Island being placed at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, people usually expect me to know how to swim… Hahaha but sorry to disappoint you, I don’t know how to swim. Swimming and traveling by water is one of the few things I fear.

I am the first of my siblings and the first Grandchild on my father’s side. There is a lot of pressure put on the first born of a nuclear family not to talk of being the first child in an extended family. You just have no room to make mistakes because you have a lot of cousins and siblings looking up to you.

I am an Accounting student in a popular university in the country. The course can be stressful at times, and in those stressful times I would wonder why I choose to study the course in the first place.

I love to travel. Though I’ve only travel within the country. Every holiday or short school breaks I would plan to get away from my school environment and family to a different place just to get my sanity back. I love traveling by road, because of the excitement it brings when I get to meet new people that I will be spending six to nine hours with on the road. I get to hear those people tell their stories. What provokes them, what excites them, why they are traveling and so on. My a goal now is to travel the world, see new people, learn new cultures and get to enjoy their weather.

The first country on my travel list is Canada. So Canadians get ready for me I will be coming soon… by the grace of God. Haha.

I am very selective when it comes to food. I don’t eat everything. Unless it’s junk food — I am crazy for those. But I do have one favorite food and it is Egusi soup and pounded yam(a native Nigerian dish).

I used to love the color yellow when I was a kid, but now most of the T shirts I buy are gray.

I am a twenty-four year old guy, who loves listening to songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s And very few of my generation’s music.

My love for writing began when I was in secondary school. There was an assignment giving to us to write a thousand word story. It took me a whole weekend to write a thousand word story. We submitted the assignments and later that day my English teacher walked into the classroom and said that their were only two people who’s work he enjoyed and he was going to call their names.

I was never among the top ten smartest student in my class, neither was I among the bottom ten students struggling. I was always in the middle… the average Joe. So when my teacher told me he enjoyed my work, I couldn’t believe it.

My teacher called me to read my story in front of the class. Though my work wasn’t perfect there were places he had corrected some spelling errors and grammatical blunder with a red pen. I read my work to my classmates and they loved it. I wrote a lot of stories in my Secondary school days, some were as good as the first one, some were terrible.

After secondary school I stopped writing for a very long time. It was when I came across medium that I decided to write again. I have written some articles here on this platform. Few did pretty well, while the rest not so well. But I am happy to be on a platform where you could write and earn money as well.

I do not know what the future would be like writing on medium. My interest might change, I might stop writing on medium one day and focus on something else. So I don’t really have a long term medium goals.

So thank you for taking your time to read my work.

If you wish to reach me, to chat a little,

I am available on Facebook. So drop a message and I would reply. I would love to make new friends.