WHATS UP?

“Of course I talk to myself, because sometimes I need expert advice”…Buggs Bunny (Whats up Doc?)

Think about it

Yes, whats up with you? Surprised at the question or just in its informality? Whatever, but really, I’d expect your reply to be “nothing much” or “I’m good” and some people will even take it as rhetorical, even if what I’m actually saying is “whats going on, right? Or you’re probably asking yourself, whats up with this guy, is he bored or confused about life as we know it? Well, again, its whatever.

But seriously, whats up really? Especially with the world, and perhaps with us all?

I for one definitely used to see life as a playground, playing my head away as a little kid, but all grown up now and I am made to realize that it is probably more of a battle field where you literally have to dodge bullets and bombs.

Thank God I’m a survivor though, especially thus far, wouldn’t you know that while dodging the bullets, I’m busy imagining that its just a movie? That is how far my attitude takes me, and with the many more people like me in this category, I do hope our optimism doesn’t kill us.

Whatagwan?

If you’re a Jamaica or reggae fan, you’ll surely agree that I’m pretty much saying whats up again or more like whats going on? And you’re hanging there like, “Get to the point buddy!” I hope I don’t piss you off with it though.

Now I’m serious, assuming we must analyze life, how can we start? A school of thought says life is complex, another says its simple, but I’d say it’s a blend of both. Just like knowledge, what you know helps you reason, what you’re ignorant of simply wanders past you.

For instance, what are the categories that the world is split into? From nature to psychology to religion to politics to science, take your pick because I very well don’t really know the parameters of classification, like it really does matter, or maybe it actually does.

I momentarily figured that universities emerged from the pooling of knowledge from different sources in as much as the diversity of learning actually emanated from a single source, life.

“A true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination”…Albert Einstein

The Power of Knowledge…and imagination

I graciously shared an article which I recently stumbled upon on Whatsapp which practically blew me away. The write-up actually opened my eyes to the impeccable relevance and the apparent potential of knowledge and it’s siting by using the state of California as a case study.

The article refers to California as the sixth largest economy in the world, despite just being a state in the United States of America. For the sake of plagiarism allegations that currently rock our world, I shall quote some excerpts without taking the credit. 

“It (California) has little offshore oil, yet its economy is larger than states in the US that are famous for their oil reserves, like Texas. California generates much of its revenue from non-oil products. It found a way to absorb and domesticate much of the intellectual output from its premier university, Stanford University, into salable products within its economy. As a matter of fact, much of California’s economy is built around Stanford University”

The writer went ahead to tell us that the presence of Stanford University birthed Silicon Valley, from Silicon Valley came Apple, eBay, Hewlett Packard (hp), Google, Cisco, Netflix, Facebook, Oracle, Tesla…and the list goes on. How cool is that?
This will make you reflect on what impact the likes of University of Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University, UNN and the likes have caused in their locations.

“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience”…Frank Herbert

Whats Life?

I wish I knew what life is, just like wanting to know what love is. Some folks try to define it in their capacities though, by virtue of their experiences.
Life is the most mysterious, beautiful and precious thing. It is the source and essence of everything, it makes nature worth it, but guess what, we all take it for granted most times, except when we probably encounter a near death experience, or when we feel the urgency to achieve when we perhaps have a time limit to prove a point that may never present the opportunity again.

Maybe this paragraph should have been titled “What is life worth?” Not that I can answer it, and possibly, neither can you, as we perhaps also constantly fail to define or discover who we ourselves really are.

Those that try usually spend their entire lives being evaded by it and regard their eventual achievements and consequential legacies as vanity, wishing they had lived more fruitful lives with family and friends rather that isolate themselves to unnecessary life of loneliness, mystery and perpetual hope which amounted to nothing.

What is life worth, for all its worth? A school of thought teaches us that life is what we make of it as it means different things to different people.
As one man’s food is another’s poison, thats how diverse our thoughts and beliefs are ranging from tribe to geographic location. Some believe life is a play ground, thereby letting their optimism enable see the bright side of people, events and life in general, letting a colorful fountain of ideas gush out through them, helping them inspire people. 

Those that believe the world is a battle field become stubborn and defensive, cause chaos by terrorizing the world and hope to dominate, but their selfishness violates the sacred laws that govern the earth, their ulterior motives which is obviously devoid of properly aligned leadership principles give in to gravity and fall apart and then to the ground like broken eggs.

So…whats up folks? Do we have to constantly lie on the bench of our contort zones, literally downplaying intelligence and giving room to mediocrity by appearing as good people who do nothing while the ignorant and bad guys tear the world apart with politics, greed and religion?
Or we’ll stand and fight on the apparent battle field which we have  by nature consequently found ourselves, or we’ll idle away and assume like little kids the world is a play ground after all, It's our choice really what life means.

Thanks for reading.

Akin Abimbola. (akinzogee@yahoo.com, akinzogee@gmail.com)

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