ENDLESS LOVE!

“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own”…H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Seriously!

Where does one start to talk about love? It apparently seems to get even more difficult by the day, considering the world as it is. There is currently more insecurity now more than ever. We have increased vastly in knowledge and likewise in sorrow.

There is so much noise, greed, selfishness, over-ambition, quest for unnecessary wealth out there so much that we are momentarily distracted from paying attention to ourselves, and by implication, our love has systematically waned.

“Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out ”…Jenn Proske

Deserving

A school of thought describes love as an ability…perhaps the ability to make sacrifices for your fellow human. One has to practically leave his/her comfort zone to demonstrate love, which of course pretty much makes sense, just like Christians believe that Jesus died for us.

As they say, if you want love, you’ve got to give it, just like a reciprocation of sort by principle.

Now the question is, if you want to be loved (Of course you do, who doesn’t?), are you deserving of love?

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”…Martin Luther King, Jr.

For God’s sake!

As you very well know, the world is currently going through a massive transformation. Newly sworn in United States President Donald Trump issued a controversial Executive Order on new travel stand into the States, which has caused rowdy protests throughout the country. Same thing applies to other countries like Nigeria which her citizens in different spheres such as petroleum industry and entertainment industry threaten strikes and protests respectively, also other war torn countries like Syria, Somalia and Iraq are ravaged by terrorists.

 

Nigeria in particular is presently going through an avoidable recession, but it has become inevitable due to the lack of love which birthed corruption which has been taken to a whole new level, leaving Nigerians in the trenches, blurring hope of future survival, spurring our able youths to emigrate to America where they are treated like slaves.

When I analyze the world problems especially the manmade ones, I wonder what happened to the other cheek.

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend”… Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love conquers all!

It might interest you or even surprise you that I am not an advocate of changing the world, because I think it is an impossible task. Rather we should focus on changing our attitudes and ourselves to stereotypes and prevailing circumstances.

It has been preached by many prophets and philosophers that we have the power to take control of our lives and situations by taking a moment to breathe deep and think before we act. Pairing this with a positive mental attitude, we will graciously approach a win-win situation.

We need to love ourselves well enough to believe that we can make the best of our nation and ourselves in unity.

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity”…Proverbs 17; 17

Now that the adversity stares us in the face, There is no better time to come to the aid of our brothers and sisters even if they wronged us or abandoned us in our times of trouble and need.

If only we can stand together in love and unity, in faith and courage, perhaps our undefiled and undiluted lot, and by that I mean Africa, may be the next world power after all, we only have to be seriously deserving for God’s sake, and love shall surely conquer all, just like an endless love.

Thank you! You are far too kind.

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SUPERFICIAL!

“Vanity dulls the senses”…Nadja Sam

Hello!

I once heard an interesting story about the telephone, which was invented by Alexander Graham Bell and patented in 1876. The tale was that the first call Alexander made over the phone was to his wife whose name was Hello, thus Hello.

This was later found to be a hoax, Alexander never used the term ‘hello’ the first call he made was to his assistant who was in the adjoining room and he said ‘come here. I want to see you.’

Alexander Bell preferred to use ‘Ahoy’ as used on ships in those days.

Now that I have your attention, hello, and as a matter of fact, are you there?

We need to say hello to ourselves from time to time perhaps to jerk us back to reality, because it is observed these days that we are massively distracted by traffic, noise, toys, banality and of course, vanity.

Believe it or not, there is fire on the mountain and I vaguely wonder where on earth we’d run.

Each day, we are bombarded with millions of products, together with their photosensitive flash adverts, corrupting and confusing our minds, and then we face several types of crisis and choices requiring split-second responses, trust me, that stress you have is real, if not surreal too.

And guess what, the companies that make these products and blow up those adverts in our faces don’t care about us, in fact they quantify us in figures, making us a part of the schemed cash-flow plan as their concern is about the bottom line, even at the expense of our health and lives.

“It reminded him of the truth – who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him ”…Kayla Krantz

Who are we?

Who am I?

Who are you?

Trust me on this one, no one can really tell who we are, scientists have simply taken on the tasks of history, archeology and ancestry just to be relevant in things we pay little attention to.

With no disrespect, we are a bunch of inquisitive, complex, gullible and selfish beings seeking to dominate the world, thereby ruining it in the process.

We rush through the hierarchy of needs like the hydrogen cycle and head straight to the top of the food chain, only to let our egos dictate our actions over others, and ultimately our destiny, thereby altering the eco-system.

We claim to change the world and make it better, but no, we have yet to change ourselves, and let love resonate and illuminate the world.

Who are we?

We are who we say we are. We are our dominant thoughts and actions. We are a reflection and product of our environment. We are who we choose to be; we are what we constantly do.

Beautiful cities usually have beautiful people; war torn areas usually have defensive, insecure and grumpy people. 
Poor nations usually have myopic people. Myopic in this context encompasses greedy, selfish, blind (visionless) people with ulterior motives that amount to nothing.

Who are you?

Look around you; you are who you surround yourself with. You are your parents, friends, leaders and your thoughts. You are the music in your soul, the rhythm in your heart, the love in your life, all you have to do is make it good, for your past shall surely haunt you, whatever it is.

“Blurred is the picture, to not know what’s next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is…A story of our fate ”…Somya Kedia

Next!

I hate to admit my fear, but is it not obvious that we dread the future?

We now live in an age where priorities are lost, kids are spoilt and misguided, gadgets are replacing emotions of humans and we are slipping away from ourselves.

Nigeria seems peculiar though. For us, in as much as it is shameful, apart from the fact that we were born into corruption, it seems normal to be greedy and looting the national treasury and getting away with it. 
We constantly live beyond our means with our streams of income flowing from theft and exploitation that perfectly seems normal.

Currently the world is talking about global warming, autism in children, space exploration, cancer cure, AIDS cure, sports, Prosthetic improvement, Alternative Power and impeccable leadership, but Nigeria is stuck in lack of power, roads, schools, hospitals, employment and common welfare for adults, women and children. 
Not that it is impossible, but we are selfish just looking out for individual interests, which countless models have proven to be counter-productive. Where is the love people?

This is what will happen: If Nigeria does not start to do the right things such as produce what her citizens consume, we may not be relevant to the entire world in ten years time, think about it, even the oil which nature freely blessed us with is becoming a glut the world over, and by principle, the demand is dropping.

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible…”Authur C. Clarke

Beyond Hope!

Hello! Did you say hope? Oh yeah we wish, we are way past hope. What we need is a call to action, with the right measure of patriotism and virtue.

Majority of Nigerians need direction, they need to know that they must believe in themselves, they need to be told and constantly reminded that they can do it, and must do it because they do matter and the nation depends on them, else Nigeria could fall.

There isn’t time, we have to keep talking about it, and act. We can manufacture cars, phones, computers, etc.

We need to convert western books into our languages and rebuild our culture; this is what China did to be relevant.

Hello Nigeria! Wake up; we have slept for far too long.

It is high time we quit the superficial lifestyle and become who were really made to be.

Thank you as always.

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HOLIDAY EDITION: GOD, GOVERNMENT AND YOU...

“A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life”…Charles W. Colson

The ‘God’ factor!

Believe it or not, the world is as mysterious as can be; so much that you could go nuts trying to figure it all out, you just try asking the mad scientists.

It is also however really interesting perhaps due to the surprises and unexplainable stunts that nature usually comes up with.

It is several other things to us all being as unique as we are, from having a perspective of the world being a beautiful playground and also to picturing it as a cruel battleground.

The point here is we always have to realize at some point in our lives that the less we worry and make the most of life, the better for us.

We are meant to let go of stuff we have no control over and enjoy the ride.

I don’t mean to be carefree, but just think about it, doesn’t it make all the sense in the world to build a castle out of the rocks that life throws at you constantly?

And where does God come in here? Well, a school of thought says it’s in the wisdom in knowing what to do, how to do it, and the virtue of actually doing it with the right attitude.

It’s quite inexhaustible by the way, even as infinite as time is, the value and the mystery of the human life cannot be over-emphasized.

“Justice without mercy is tyranny, and mercy without justice is weakness. Justice without love is pure socialism, and love without justice is baloney.. ”…Jaime Cardinal Sin, speaking at a Prison Fellowship International conference in Nairobi, Kenya, 1986.

The ‘Government’ factor!

Who really are the government? They say after God is government, and if the government is on your case, there is a slim chance of survival. What if the government is wrong, who saves the day? Trust me, I don’t have all the answers, and perhaps this is where you join the parade when of course you can’t beat them. Saddening right? But we are the government; the attitudes of our leaders and our representatives in high offices are the reflections of our private lives and character.

If they are greedy, it is because while they were in our midst we wallowed in apparent lack hence preached discontent, if they are wicked and insensitive, it is because when we hung out together, we were cruel and unforgiving of our brothers even in little things.

In as much as the wrong acts are no justification, its only we that are without sin that have the right to cast the first stone, else we might as well apply wisdom ranging from turning the other ear, or just criticize ourselves constructively and not get carried away by the apparent leniency of stereotyped diplomacy.

“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen onto any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.”…Samuel Adams 1722-1803 (Signer of American Declaration of Independence and father of the American Revolution)

The ‘You’ factor!

Who are you?

This is perhaps the most difficult question ever, as we daily seek to discover whom we really are due to the dehydrating thirst for the knowledge of self that has proved abortive and evasive for as long as we can remember.

We are the architects of our own faith, and if we give in to extreme sentiments and religious fanatics, we shall surely fail.

Look around you, the most successful people and nations took their destinies in their own hands and blazed their own trails, told their own stories, blew their own trumpets, saved their own kinds and charted their own territories.

You are who you want to be, you are who you say you are.

“And as it is our duty to extend our wishes to the happiness of the great family of man, I conceive that we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world that the rod of tyrants may be broken to pieces, and oppressed made free again…”Samuel Adams 1722-1803 (Signer of American Declaration of Independence and father of the American Revolution)

It all comes together!

Believe it or not, in as much as the world is mysterious, some people have dared to be different, they have charted paths in the most unlikely places, they have challenged the norm, proving the there is no such thing as impossible.

Naturally, as a patriot and as predictable as can be, Nigeria is the special case study in this blog post, and I am seizing this opportunity to inspire us that the strengths embedded in us by God can make us surpass the box called government, and we can surely soar like the eagle, with hard work, the right attitude and a good heart of course. We have to choose to be positive and we have no choice but to be nice.

We can make our power sector work, our roads, hospitals, schools, health sectors, transportation employment can be fantastic, we just have to believe in ourselves and genuinely love ourselves.

We can have made in Nigeria TVs, cars, phones, rice, toothpicks etc. and stop letting China embarrass our lot.

We are smart and we know it, why not use it for good?

We can only get better in what we do constantly with joy and conviction.

We need to stop flaunting other nations’ things over ours, it makes us inferior, and guess what, they are not only smiling to the bank, they are also calling us stupid.

They sure have guts dumping inferior products on our land, and even introducing 'ponzi' schemes like MMM into our economy to rip us off even further.

I pledge to encourage made in Nigeria products from today on, so help me God. 

What about you?

Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Happy holidays and thank you for reading.

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

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