CHILL#?!

 “Don’t take things too seriously, and just chill”…Kallash Kher

Hold Up!

Believe it or not, life is as tough as it gets, no warning, no prepping, it just happens, meeting you where you are, perhaps expecting you to be ready or meet it half way if you dare.

The point is, life is probably fair, or not, it’s actually up to your perspective, who said it’d be easy anyway?

But regardless of whatever, first of, hold up, I even wonder how to use the word chill.

Take a chill pill as they say, or maybe just cool it down, or else you may find that life is like a roller coaster, which may of course be too fast, and damn too furious too.

Have you been in a traffic hold up before? Trust me, that’s probably the only time some folks actually apply their brakes, and during that moment, if observant, you’ll realize how unnecessarily fast you’ve been.

You speed so fast that you miss a lot of important though subtle details.

Like did you see a loving granny bid that kid farewell? Did you see the  youngster-playing ball with his dog Igor? Do you know what your neighbours beautiful flowers smell like? You sure missed a lot of fine elements that surround you and long for your attention, but who am I to say?

“Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment”…Arthur Helps

Even Nature isn’t in a hurry

 

One thing is for sure, I’ll never stop wondering how despite how long it takes for crops to grow, and we still always have enough to buy from the market.

You may call it mechanized agriculture, but when you realize how nature takes time to grow and even heal us ourselves as a product of nature, we’ll discover that we are being thought valuable lessons each day, but we fail to notice.

Nature takes it’s time to do things so that we appreciate her work after it takes us a while to notice.

Technically, we are not meant for the fast lane, but we sure were designed to make things happen especially by changing the world for the better, brick by brick, that is our destiny.

“There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out from the glittering sunlight of life’s July, and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November ”…Martin Luther King Jnr

Make that move though…

It might actually require an entire book to analyze Africa in direct proportion to the world in terms of thoughts, perspectives and consequential actions.

Of course we know that flashpoint areas are usually prone to violence due to poverty, lack of mentors and low government presence and priority.

This further justifies scientists’ research that we are a product of our environment, our environment being a subject of relativity.

In as much as it is imperative for us to pause to appreciate the fresh air, it is also incumbent for us to be pro-active by making the world a better place, which systematically hinges on love.

If you have genuine love for your neighbor, you will look out for the best in them, not just because what goes around comes around, but also because love conquers all. Love will make you provide opportunities such as education, healthcare, and other essential amenities so that the value and standard of lives can improve.

“Every kid deserves a shot at greatness”…LLCoolJ

What are you really saying?

 Chill? Yes chill. You really need to take a moment out of life to smell the rose and appreciate the sunshine.

Like I said, it will take a lifetime and countless books to analyze the world and its goings-on, we seriously need to have an open mind towards growth and development of our people’s minds without bias, greed, corruption and selfishness.

There has to be a genuine aspiration to make the world a better place by providing opportunities for the regular kid, guy or whoever requires it.

For all one cares, perhaps the cure to cancer and even AIDS is locked up in the minds of less privileged kids without opportunity to get educated.

The world is passing by, yet corrupt and myopic nations such as Nigeria have yet to present anything substantial to show for it.

All there is to see is stolen wealth, yet, the more you look for it, the less you actually see, because they have been siphoned abroad only to be wasted on unnecessary material possessions, that cause Nigerians to be further impoverished, earning Nigeria the reputation of the most wasteful people lacking basic financial intelligence.

So, for how long are we chilling? Or have we chilled long enough and its time to smell the coffee? Trust me, it is what it is, and reality is really happening.

Thanks for reading.

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

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