WHAT HAVE WE DONE?

“My God, what have we done?” … Robert A. Lewis (October 18, 1917 - June 18, 1983) was a United States Army Air Forces Officer serving in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. He was the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Super fortress bomber which dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

REGRETS

Of course you have seen a movie where some idiot pulled a plug or something and his boss, friend or father asked him in a tone set in mash-up of anger and fear "what have you done?" Then all hell seemed to be let lose in a scenario where it became imperative for a hero like James Bond to appear in order to save the day.

Now snap out of it, because here and now we are in the real world, and as you'd expect, the question has arisen again, "what have we done?

The history of humanity is filled with events that are both good and bad, from accidents to natural disasters, from experiments gone wrong to amazing discoveries. In the light of this, perhaps it is safe to say that the world has never been more intelligent as we constantly learn from our mistakes even if we still constantly make them, and sadly pay for them.

"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself"...Shannon.L. Alder

CLASSIFIED

With the help of whistleblowers and apparent movies and their bloopers, we have come to realize that government and even bigger international bodies are completely wrapped up in not just conspicuous conspiracies but definitely a lot of clandestine stuff.

They are in charge of pharmaceutical drugs and equipment, weapons, gears and tactics, the Internet, oil prices, sports and of course the media. They control everything that makes the world go round, practically following the money, the rest of us are just the pawns on the chess board, we know that already, yet they rub it in our faces anyway, just like a boss in an action sci-fi movie.

"You are not living if you are not regretting"...Nicola Yoon

RUMOURS

Naturally, people will never stop talking. Humans have never been more insecure, especially due to the fact that there is high mortality in virtually every sector in as much as we try to make jokes about it in order to keep us sane, it is really happening. 

Eating us away are diseases, poverty, disasters, addiction, and not only the forums on the internet are blowing up, local settings where the illiterate folks reside are also taking the hit, yet we let greed, lust, ego, stigma and unfair dominance still get in between us, disrupting our plan to deal with the real issue.

“It always seems impossible until it is done”…Nelson Mandela

Tick-Tock

I'm a Nigerian, so I naturally have a genuine case study to work with. When I look at Nigeria, I fight every doubt in my mind that tells me to give up, but then where would my patriotism lie?

A country of 170 million people without any meaningful direction is a real cause for worry.

Lets go back to several basics. Nigeria has been the giant of Africa as long as I can remember, so have we been the future leaders of this blessed country with enormous potential.

So far though, we have only amounted to the shadow of our past. 
We are hardly organized nor are we our true selves perhaps due to feeling inferior, or we are in a hurry to catch up with the pace of the development of the western world, and we have let the obsession of vanity take the better part of us.

It is definitely a brainwash, think about it, we dress, talk, act like the westerners. It doesn’t take rocket science to know that we have belonged with the western world since childhood without actually realizing it. 
From age three when we were admitted to school and made to speak in English, we were not only vulnerable, but we willingly surrendered our destinies to the ideology of the mysterious and apparent enemies of yesterday who now control us in the conspicuous guise of modern slavery, molding us into a time bomb of sort.

“I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.”…Dwight Gooden

Wouldn’t you know that we are being laughed at? We loot our treasury and give the proceeds to the western banks; we buy expensive properties abroad, which will eventually become theirs, either through our unearthed crime of theft, government policies or distress sales.

We go to expensive schools abroad and our children become unemployable in Nigeria because our national systems and institutions have not totally conformed to the western style.

We idolize western sports so badly that we spend a fortune wasting our time watching them and even betting on them risking bankruptcy and letting our ego transform us into immature wannabes.

Now, the whole world knows how dark we are, and our weaknesses, oil is our only gold, the Dollar is our real currency, we think we are rich so we deceive and intimidate the less privileged within us with material things that we gather, which only makes us poorer, yet we ignorantly display it to the whole world that laugh at us due to our obvious financial illiteracy and foolishness, in addition, we have taken corruption to a whole new level entirely, which makes our future as bleak as ever.

We really must ask ourselves what we have done to ourselves, and what we can do to save our future from fettering away, I sure do hope we haven’t dropped a bomb over the skyline, and by the way, time is running out.

Thank you.

Akin Abimbola.

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

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