"Fighting corruption is not just good governance, It's self defense, it's patriotism"...Joe Biden
READY? FIGHT!
Growing up, wrestling was probably one of my favorite sport events. I knew the names of virtually every wrestler in the World Wrestling Federation, popularly called the WWF. I and my siblings would mimic the super moves of our best athletes and we would even hurt ourselves sometimes by either jumping off the bed with our capes tied to our necks, or hit ourselves accidentally, while of course mom should never know. The WWF seemed then like fun, but after growing older, I realized that in the real world, we practically have to fight for virtually everything, not just to stay alive, but in order to be relevant.
THE REAL WORLD
Believe it or not, you've got a fighter in you, and trust me, he's as nasty as they get. Remember when you were much younger? You never wanted to lose that race in High school, you strived to win all the sports you participated in, and ultimately, you definitely strived at least not to fail in your academics, if those grades dared slip you knew it was one big trouble.
Thank God that looking back today, it's a thing of joy that we survived the apparent torture of childhood and now we are in the real world of true events and 'no excuse' economic reality, but seriously speaking, how hard and how intense must we fight, that is if we are compelled to fight at all?
SUPERMAN
Here I am with movies again right? Hell yeah! Think about it, who doesn't know Superman, or wish to be one? I do, and countless other folks that secretly fantasize about the childish dreams. If you are a Superman fan however, you would probably give kudos to the creators and writers of the hero for providing an interesting and compelling story of how the super-human has a weakness, thus emphasizing man's weakness as God's superiority.
The kryptonite makes Superman weak and vulnerable, just as the razor to Samson’s hair renders him useless and capturable. Just like by principle every man has a weakness or perhaps a price, emphasizing the fact that there is probably no superman per se as we are all liable.
“The sour in every sweet makes the sweet even sweeter”…Vanilla Sky
GERMS AND REVERSALS
Not to be modest, but I wasn’t extremely fantastic in school, but I definitely did learn some valuable stuff like, our bodies do have beneficial germs that help us perhaps survive unfamiliar and uncomfortable terrains, and also helps us resist other germs, like some immunity kind of thing (Pardon my rambling and maybe you should try to google more of it if you like). My point in reference to real life situation is, as odd as it may sound, there are actually some crime that perhaps shouldn’t be totally annihilated in order to preserve the natural order of things like the eco-system, so that there remains sanity in nature. Remember good and evil? Well, we didn’t create it, yet its all around us, and we constantly make comparisons that make us appreciate the value of good even in the presence of evil.
IT ALL COMES TOGETHER
For the record, I’m not exactly trying to write a book about the life you already know, who am I by the way? But seriously think about it, don’t you like when things come together? More like for good.
Incidentally though, this goes out to Nigeria, and then the world, do we really hate corruption? Its either we are being economical with the truth, or we barely have a vague knowledge of what corruption really is. Mind you, we were born into a system that celebrates looters, oppressors, thieves and erring contractors so far they have enough cash to throw around and sprawling material possessions to intimidate the average citizen. We were born into a society where a hungry man gets lynched for pilfering a loaf of bread, where is the love brethren?
Not that we are blind to the truth that stares us in the very eye that we simply downplay intelligence and celebrate mediocrity. Just like scientist predicted that humanity wilt be extinct in four years if we killed all the honey bees, perhaps so will an entire nation obliterate if our stereotypically termed corruption is stamped out, especially as solely as we make to mar.
Just like wrestling, imagine if there was no Andre the Giant, how would Hulk Hogan have ever shined?
Thank you.
Akin Abimbola (akinzogee@yahoo.com)
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SOURCES: google, Goodreads, Wikipedia, Brainy quote, Time, Punch, Nat geo Wild, Biology, DC Comics, WWF
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