...The WORlD obviously was made by words, and till today, its governed by same.
I looked through all that marvels me in the creation story, only to find the recurring words; "Then He SAID...".
There couldn't have been a world without a word.
There couldn't have been a you, a me, if He hadn't spoken.
With the power of words creation was made possible,
With the power of words, life was called into existence and even more by it, lives today are manipulated, as it is nothing remains the same in the world of they that 'speak'.
Little wonder status quo holds only in the world of the dumbs and numbs. Over here, the story is different, change is inevitable as long as words don't remain unspoken or unwritten.
Words are strong
Words take life, and give it all at the same time.
.
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...The Almighty saw the essence, and he optimized it.
Men became aware of its potency, hence they exploited it.
Then it took The Almighty again to warn; "There's life & Death in the tongue"!
The W O R L D is 99.9% a product of words (Both by The Creator and his Creature).
The power of the 'written' word is nothing in isolation of that which was released to it by its 'spoken' parent. Hence my succinct conclusion, "The Spoken Birth The Written'
Nothing happened until it was spoken, nothing came to existence until it had been conjured/called out by words somewhere.
Having looked closely, I spotted something extra,
That couldn't have been anything asides the letter 'L' fitted somewhere in-between; meaning 'Life'.
Puzzle not that my caption has it written in a lower case, ....All men & creation are predominantly "WORDs, gifted with a breath of Life", with each and everyone of us spoken to a particular family, nation, continent, people and circumstance.
Words set the world in gear, the same puts it in reverse.
Words carry the power to do, the same reserves the right to undo.
I show admiration to other means of communication, yet none wins my respect like words.
To the Greatest Wordsmith, the one true father of wordsmiths, all praise and adoration be.
He that calleth the things that aren't as if they were.
He that speaks, and continues to speak even till this second and forevermore.
If anything, words have not been able to do, its must be to sufficiently qualify Him (GOD Almighty).
The Wordsmith™
'Grandson of Man'
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15.5.13
8.5.13
If My Mobile Phone/Gadget Could Speak For Itself...!
...IF MY MOBILE PHONE/GADGET COULD SPEAK FOR ITSELF, WHAT WOULD IT BY NOW BE TELLING ME?
A question for one, a question for all.
With the advent of new technology the way of communication is also changed. In very early days of history, pigeons were used as means of communication. Later, written messages are sent through letters by post. As the time passed, telephone came into existence and today is the era of wireless communication which gives rise to mobile phones. Mobiles are the latest invention and common way to communicate now-a-days.
Mobile phones are long range, portable and wireless electronic device of communication. A few years back, when mobile phones were not so common, the device was expensive and communication costs pretty good to the user. But in last a few years as the use of mobiles increased, their cost is decreased considerably and this factor helped a lot to make them available for common men. Mobile phones are now inexpensive, easy to use, and comfortable and equipped with almost every latest feature we desire.
Mobiles are now every one's first choice gadget, either an elderly person or a younger one. It is like a status symbol now. Every persons hand is equipped with latest mobile models and EVERYONE HAS ITS OWN REASON TO HAVE THIS MAGIC GADGET IN HIS HANDS. Every day new models of mobiles come replacing the older ones to lure the users. The interested users especially the young generation is very fond of the latest features provided in new handsets. People like the new ring tones, hello tunes and wallpapers. With this, mp3 and video recording facilities, MMS and Internet facilities are attracting the users to mobile world. Mobile users can't even imagine their world without their handset. The importance of mobiles can be imagined by the reaction of people if they are asked to leave their handset separate from them for a day. Their life got a comma if they are keeping apart of their mobiles.
To write about the situation as obtainable in my country Nigeria, and many parts of the developing world countries, is another page of thoughts on its own. The complimentary purposes (Asides making a phone call or send an sms) of these gadgets many are yet to come to the knowledge of. Most appalling, many just get these gadgets to flaunt their style, create a niche, and create a standard (levels) or merely to keep up with an existing social class.
These categories of people go ahead to get gadgets they do not know how to manipulate nor want to know. All they want from such devices is the pride that comes along with being in possession of such expensive toys/gadgets.
One of the most recent and I must say, annoying experiences I have had with this category of people, was some weeks ago, to be precise, it was mid-April when I stumbled on a post online on a web forum. To think it is the female folks that fall largely into this category of mobile gadget abuse, misuse or under-use would be an erroneous and myopic conclusion. As it stays in Nigeria today, both sexes are culpable.
THE SCENARIO:
A young man who has just bought his copy of the newly launched Blackberry O.S 10 series (Z10) sent a post into that forum where I was actively online at that moment in time. His post read thus;
“Hi guys, I just got my Z10 from slot about a week ago, the phone is madt mehn. I’ve only been making calls and pinging, but I heard from a friend that it can do video calling, pls how can I do it, and where can I see the memory that came with it? Thanks. Don’t 4get to get yours!”
Friends, nothing can spoil a good day for me as much as this post from this fellow did. It’s irritating to state again that many just buy gadgets without even consulting the manual. I mean that post was lame, why on earth will you leave your phone manual in the pack and come publicly on a forum to seek the “How to’s” of your device, I mean the one you lavished so much money on. I would have been more impressed to see some people stick with the pocket friendly, maybe even older mobile phones, than have to see them purchase gadgets they’ll never understand nor ever utilize to its fullest capacity. It isn’t a funny situation to know that many youths of today don’t do anything more with their handheld devices (Blackberry in particular) than PING. Some are better-off; they explore other social networking sites like: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. but is that all a Smartphone was made to do for you? Come on! Wake up! It’s your “Personal Assistant”, your secretary! Don’t just keep it there sending Sms’s, chats, and pinging away destiny; EXPLORE other positive and life changing benefits. These benefits range from as little and inconsequential as a ‘Day Planner’ (often pre-installed on Smartphone) to bigger and more complex benefits like Forex/Stock exchange monitoring apps. Am not here to point out what you can do with that sophisticated device in your possession, rather, am here to let you know you definitely can do more than you are doing now with it. We hardly even maximize these gadgets upto 40% of its possible uses (Too bad).
ECONOMIC ANGLE:
A phone or device that won’t make for you a return (money-wise, economic wise or service/usage wise) an equivalent of AT LEAST half the price of its purchase in the long run, is not worth your buying at all, it’s not even worth your going near it. The internet has provided us with a million and one services accessible via our mobile devices and gadgets, many of which have bettered the lives of those who know and understand the essence of using the phones and/or gadgets in their hands. It’s quite funny to discover after checking random samples of phones, to realize that a large majority don’t even get to use up even half of the backing storage (memory0 available on their phones, and the few who do, waste them on storing non-economically relevant pictures, music and video files. WHY HAVE WE CHOSEN SUCH WAY OF LIFE! I wonder why someone will buy Z10 with manual, and won't read it, but contact 9jabb for how to's which is already and clearly stated in the manual!
The MEGA Question:
IF MY PHONE COULD SPEAK FOR ITSELF, WHAT WOULD IT BE TELLING ME NOW?
In Japan, mobile phone companies provide immediate notification of earthquakes and other natural disasters to their customers free of charge. (Don’t be too quick to say Ehn! Ehn!!, even if this is obtainable in Nigeria, without proper orientation, many of us will still not find it useful, useable or relevant, as long as it is not ENTERTAINMENT GISTS AND GOSSIP). In the event of an emergency, disaster response crews can locate trapped or injured people using the signals from their mobile phones or the small detonator of flare in the battery of every cell phone; an interactive menu accessible through the phone's Internet browser notifies the company if the user is safe or in distress.
There is no doubt that the mobile phones have made the life more easy and comfortable. Everyone is in touch with their family members, friends and other known. If we want to talk with anyone, there is no need to write a letter and have to wait for days to send the message to receiver, just we have to pick the phone and press a number and start talking. Mobile phones are comfortable way of communication over a long distance. Life becomes so easy and fast by holding the mobile phones. YET THERE IS MORE TO WHAT YOU’VE GOT IN YOUR HANDS THAN PLACING CALLS AND CHATS. The pings, the keeks, the buzzes, etc of this world have robbed us of many advantages; the time for a positive change has come!
Mobile phones proved to be a big help in emergencies. Mobile phones are also known as lifesavers as helping people in emergencies. If you get stuck in the middle of the road and find no one for help, you can just use a mobile phone and call for help. Along with the obvious convenience and quick access to help in emergencies big and small, mobile phones can be both economical and essential for travelers trying to stay connected.
Like every coin have two sides, mobiles phones providing a lot of advantages also shows off few disadvantages. Mobile-phone use while driving is common. It is generally agreed that using a hand-held mobile phone while driving is a distraction that brings risk of road traffic accidents. So we need to use hands free sets to avoid such hazards.
A little attention is received recently towards the potential impact of the kind of electromagnetic fields generated by cellular phones on the human brain. Accumulating evidence indicate that microwave radiation from mobile phones may cause serious diseases and disturbances in the physiology. This includes an increased cancer risk and genetic damage, disturbed brain function and other effects. Mobile phone radiation and health concerns have been raised, especially following the enormous increase in the use of wireless mobile telephony throughout the world. Hence, the head set should be kept at reasonable distance from our head and prolonged use of mobile phone should be avoided.
Putting a stop to this article at this junction, the assignment at hand is one of EVALUATION, questions need to be asked.
What exactly do I need this kind of mobile phone or gadgets for?
How much value can it add to my life?
Do I really need a phone or gadget I won’t be able to maximize to profit and benefits?
Are these gadgets solely to boost my ‘SWAG’ or advance me economically, socially, psychologically etc ?
These and many more questions need to be asked and answered, and believe you me, the time is NOW!
The Wordsmith™
(2013).
A question for one, a question for all.
With the advent of new technology the way of communication is also changed. In very early days of history, pigeons were used as means of communication. Later, written messages are sent through letters by post. As the time passed, telephone came into existence and today is the era of wireless communication which gives rise to mobile phones. Mobiles are the latest invention and common way to communicate now-a-days.
Mobile phones are long range, portable and wireless electronic device of communication. A few years back, when mobile phones were not so common, the device was expensive and communication costs pretty good to the user. But in last a few years as the use of mobiles increased, their cost is decreased considerably and this factor helped a lot to make them available for common men. Mobile phones are now inexpensive, easy to use, and comfortable and equipped with almost every latest feature we desire.
Mobiles are now every one's first choice gadget, either an elderly person or a younger one. It is like a status symbol now. Every persons hand is equipped with latest mobile models and EVERYONE HAS ITS OWN REASON TO HAVE THIS MAGIC GADGET IN HIS HANDS. Every day new models of mobiles come replacing the older ones to lure the users. The interested users especially the young generation is very fond of the latest features provided in new handsets. People like the new ring tones, hello tunes and wallpapers. With this, mp3 and video recording facilities, MMS and Internet facilities are attracting the users to mobile world. Mobile users can't even imagine their world without their handset. The importance of mobiles can be imagined by the reaction of people if they are asked to leave their handset separate from them for a day. Their life got a comma if they are keeping apart of their mobiles.
To write about the situation as obtainable in my country Nigeria, and many parts of the developing world countries, is another page of thoughts on its own. The complimentary purposes (Asides making a phone call or send an sms) of these gadgets many are yet to come to the knowledge of. Most appalling, many just get these gadgets to flaunt their style, create a niche, and create a standard (levels) or merely to keep up with an existing social class.
These categories of people go ahead to get gadgets they do not know how to manipulate nor want to know. All they want from such devices is the pride that comes along with being in possession of such expensive toys/gadgets.
One of the most recent and I must say, annoying experiences I have had with this category of people, was some weeks ago, to be precise, it was mid-April when I stumbled on a post online on a web forum. To think it is the female folks that fall largely into this category of mobile gadget abuse, misuse or under-use would be an erroneous and myopic conclusion. As it stays in Nigeria today, both sexes are culpable.
THE SCENARIO:
A young man who has just bought his copy of the newly launched Blackberry O.S 10 series (Z10) sent a post into that forum where I was actively online at that moment in time. His post read thus;
“Hi guys, I just got my Z10 from slot about a week ago, the phone is madt mehn. I’ve only been making calls and pinging, but I heard from a friend that it can do video calling, pls how can I do it, and where can I see the memory that came with it? Thanks. Don’t 4get to get yours!”
Friends, nothing can spoil a good day for me as much as this post from this fellow did. It’s irritating to state again that many just buy gadgets without even consulting the manual. I mean that post was lame, why on earth will you leave your phone manual in the pack and come publicly on a forum to seek the “How to’s” of your device, I mean the one you lavished so much money on. I would have been more impressed to see some people stick with the pocket friendly, maybe even older mobile phones, than have to see them purchase gadgets they’ll never understand nor ever utilize to its fullest capacity. It isn’t a funny situation to know that many youths of today don’t do anything more with their handheld devices (Blackberry in particular) than PING. Some are better-off; they explore other social networking sites like: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. but is that all a Smartphone was made to do for you? Come on! Wake up! It’s your “Personal Assistant”, your secretary! Don’t just keep it there sending Sms’s, chats, and pinging away destiny; EXPLORE other positive and life changing benefits. These benefits range from as little and inconsequential as a ‘Day Planner’ (often pre-installed on Smartphone) to bigger and more complex benefits like Forex/Stock exchange monitoring apps. Am not here to point out what you can do with that sophisticated device in your possession, rather, am here to let you know you definitely can do more than you are doing now with it. We hardly even maximize these gadgets upto 40% of its possible uses (Too bad).
ECONOMIC ANGLE:
A phone or device that won’t make for you a return (money-wise, economic wise or service/usage wise) an equivalent of AT LEAST half the price of its purchase in the long run, is not worth your buying at all, it’s not even worth your going near it. The internet has provided us with a million and one services accessible via our mobile devices and gadgets, many of which have bettered the lives of those who know and understand the essence of using the phones and/or gadgets in their hands. It’s quite funny to discover after checking random samples of phones, to realize that a large majority don’t even get to use up even half of the backing storage (memory0 available on their phones, and the few who do, waste them on storing non-economically relevant pictures, music and video files. WHY HAVE WE CHOSEN SUCH WAY OF LIFE! I wonder why someone will buy Z10 with manual, and won't read it, but contact 9jabb for how to's which is already and clearly stated in the manual!
The MEGA Question:
IF MY PHONE COULD SPEAK FOR ITSELF, WHAT WOULD IT BE TELLING ME NOW?
In Japan, mobile phone companies provide immediate notification of earthquakes and other natural disasters to their customers free of charge. (Don’t be too quick to say Ehn! Ehn!!, even if this is obtainable in Nigeria, without proper orientation, many of us will still not find it useful, useable or relevant, as long as it is not ENTERTAINMENT GISTS AND GOSSIP). In the event of an emergency, disaster response crews can locate trapped or injured people using the signals from their mobile phones or the small detonator of flare in the battery of every cell phone; an interactive menu accessible through the phone's Internet browser notifies the company if the user is safe or in distress.
There is no doubt that the mobile phones have made the life more easy and comfortable. Everyone is in touch with their family members, friends and other known. If we want to talk with anyone, there is no need to write a letter and have to wait for days to send the message to receiver, just we have to pick the phone and press a number and start talking. Mobile phones are comfortable way of communication over a long distance. Life becomes so easy and fast by holding the mobile phones. YET THERE IS MORE TO WHAT YOU’VE GOT IN YOUR HANDS THAN PLACING CALLS AND CHATS. The pings, the keeks, the buzzes, etc of this world have robbed us of many advantages; the time for a positive change has come!
Mobile phones proved to be a big help in emergencies. Mobile phones are also known as lifesavers as helping people in emergencies. If you get stuck in the middle of the road and find no one for help, you can just use a mobile phone and call for help. Along with the obvious convenience and quick access to help in emergencies big and small, mobile phones can be both economical and essential for travelers trying to stay connected.
Like every coin have two sides, mobiles phones providing a lot of advantages also shows off few disadvantages. Mobile-phone use while driving is common. It is generally agreed that using a hand-held mobile phone while driving is a distraction that brings risk of road traffic accidents. So we need to use hands free sets to avoid such hazards.
A little attention is received recently towards the potential impact of the kind of electromagnetic fields generated by cellular phones on the human brain. Accumulating evidence indicate that microwave radiation from mobile phones may cause serious diseases and disturbances in the physiology. This includes an increased cancer risk and genetic damage, disturbed brain function and other effects. Mobile phone radiation and health concerns have been raised, especially following the enormous increase in the use of wireless mobile telephony throughout the world. Hence, the head set should be kept at reasonable distance from our head and prolonged use of mobile phone should be avoided.
Putting a stop to this article at this junction, the assignment at hand is one of EVALUATION, questions need to be asked.
What exactly do I need this kind of mobile phone or gadgets for?
How much value can it add to my life?
Do I really need a phone or gadget I won’t be able to maximize to profit and benefits?
Are these gadgets solely to boost my ‘SWAG’ or advance me economically, socially, psychologically etc ?
These and many more questions need to be asked and answered, and believe you me, the time is NOW!
The Wordsmith™
(2013).
2.5.13
The Wordsmith Goes Temporarily Offline.
Dear Esteemed blog readers, yours faithfully got dispossessed of his mobile phones and some other communication gadgets, and for this reason will need sometime to bounce back. Thanks for your loyalty thus far. I hope to be back in the shortest possible time.
1.5.13
Indeed and In-Truth -A WORKER'S DAY
HAPPY WORKERS DAY TO THE NIGERIAN WORKERS
Today, I raise my cup, to the workers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria:
Today I salute the Men, Women, young adults and even shamefully under-aged children, who work, claw and break sweat just to earn a decent wage and make a honest living
Today, I duff my hat to those Generals up and about this nation (from Ketu to Kuru and from Ikeja to Lokoja) Men and women who have dedicate themselves to honest efforts and righteous ventures- those who have chosen to reap only that which was sown and to earn only what they are duly due
Today, I choose to recognise their efforts, I choose to celebrate their doggedness and I am determined to raise high these special classes of people whose rewards until now have been nothing but scorn, shame and ill-repute
To start with, Nigeria is unlike any nation of the world
With natural resources that rivals many rich nations like American and human capital that is literarily unimaginable in depth and promise, it is therefore always a shock to think about the troubles of the Nigerian worker
With salaries that cannot possible feed them, talk less of support their other needs
The average Nigerian worker is the perfect example of a moving miracle
Clothes to buy, home to raise, Children to parent and with many other related dependant
The Nigerian worked is suckered to death from the many demands placed upon Him or Her for survival
To work for salaries is the first challenge
To rise when the Sun is still asleep just so they can beat traffic, or to deprive their children the benefits of parenthood just because of take home pay is one of the harshest realities of Modern day Nigeria
Yet this lot would not complain or down tools
Without the right equipment, and in the most unpleasant of environments, these warriors continue to thrive
Their effort though unstructured-yet their result remained un-punctured
They toiled, dug dip and continue in the hum-drum of making the nation better and their families sleep easier
To think what the average Nigeria employee feels is impossible, as it can only be better imagine to comprehend its enormity
The bigger challenge is for the Entrepreneur
Giants with monstrous heart, who despite the absence of nearly every social infrastructure and cushion decides to fly without wings
Daily, Men and women across every corner of this country start small enterprises. They register the business and are sooner than later left to themselves for survival. No tax breaks. No Start-up loans. No government grants
Easy credits they can get, while reasonable rents are nonexistent and to employ even competent hands is near impossible as education continues to fail the Nigerian economy
Do they pack up and leave?
Nope!
They dig even dipper, try even harder and continue to record heavenly profit in a terrain where even Angels and the world’s brightest minds shudder to thread
Today, I acknowledge your efforts, all you who work in Nigeria
Today I recognise all your contributions to this economy in way that is improving our GDP and PPP
Today I commend all your labour, your hardwork, countless partnership and many relationships that is deepening this economy beyond Crude Oil and Telecommunications
I know those salaries you earn are miserly and they cannot support you,
I agree your profits are minisicle and they cannot sustain you
I believe thing can improve better to make your life easier
I am sure Government can make policies, create infrastructures and encourage you in way that can beautify your existence
But while I can’t promise to do all this,
While I can’t just swoosh my rod and make all your pains go away,
While I can’t in one sentence Right all the wrongs and make everything colourful
I can do this bit at least…
I can Praise, Pose and Pray: (Your voice should be deep and forceful here!!!)
So now I Praise:
I praise your efforts, your doggedness and unrelenting spirit
I praise all the efforts when the salaries were not enough-how you came to work with your bank statements in red, how you kept you sanity when you were mired in debts and how you never ran off, committed suicide or caved in when the tides of life swam in
I praise you doggedness, as you never stopped working when there was no transport to convey you, how you swam and wade through the tide when the streets were flooded to stand still and even how you trekked your shoes into holes when petrol prices literarily went through the roof
I praise your unrelenting spirit. The never-give-up attitude that keeps you getting up daily even when life knocks you down with wrong policies, personal tragedies or even global disasters like the cataclysmic Global meltdown
Indeed, Nigerian worker, you are worthy of my praise
Again Today, I Pose:
I pose you a challenge to never let in or give up
I challenge you to raise your bar higher to pursue excellence and decide to never have a better yesterday
I challenge you the Nigerian Worker to work like the business was yours, resume on time, and close longer that you were paid for
Make sure your boss, customer or whoever you are accountable to get much more than they are paying you for
Let your contribution be dignifying in content and exceptional in presentation
And for the entrepreneur, be thou discouraged NOT
Offer services that are second to none, create product with global relevance
Let it be said of you that you gave your best ALWAYS
And even if your boss, the government, Economy or even customer may not be able or willing to reward your labour, REST ASSURED that there is always a recompense for excellence
And finally Today I pray:
That your strength will not abate
I pray for you Nigerian worker, that as you continue to purse your just cause with righteous intentions and positive mentality,
I pray the heaven will reward your efforts and that your salaries, income and profits would be guided by grace enough to satisfy you
I pray your back will not break under this load, and where and when you need help, it will arrive
To the Nigerian worker, my prayer for you is this Month of May is that may the future be Better, Brighter and more Beautiful than your past and present combined
Happy workers day to us all
@Basamta
Today, I raise my cup, to the workers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria:
Today I salute the Men, Women, young adults and even shamefully under-aged children, who work, claw and break sweat just to earn a decent wage and make a honest living
Today, I duff my hat to those Generals up and about this nation (from Ketu to Kuru and from Ikeja to Lokoja) Men and women who have dedicate themselves to honest efforts and righteous ventures- those who have chosen to reap only that which was sown and to earn only what they are duly due
Today, I choose to recognise their efforts, I choose to celebrate their doggedness and I am determined to raise high these special classes of people whose rewards until now have been nothing but scorn, shame and ill-repute
To start with, Nigeria is unlike any nation of the world
With natural resources that rivals many rich nations like American and human capital that is literarily unimaginable in depth and promise, it is therefore always a shock to think about the troubles of the Nigerian worker
With salaries that cannot possible feed them, talk less of support their other needs
The average Nigerian worker is the perfect example of a moving miracle
Clothes to buy, home to raise, Children to parent and with many other related dependant
The Nigerian worked is suckered to death from the many demands placed upon Him or Her for survival
To work for salaries is the first challenge
To rise when the Sun is still asleep just so they can beat traffic, or to deprive their children the benefits of parenthood just because of take home pay is one of the harshest realities of Modern day Nigeria
Yet this lot would not complain or down tools
Without the right equipment, and in the most unpleasant of environments, these warriors continue to thrive
Their effort though unstructured-yet their result remained un-punctured
They toiled, dug dip and continue in the hum-drum of making the nation better and their families sleep easier
To think what the average Nigeria employee feels is impossible, as it can only be better imagine to comprehend its enormity
The bigger challenge is for the Entrepreneur
Giants with monstrous heart, who despite the absence of nearly every social infrastructure and cushion decides to fly without wings
Daily, Men and women across every corner of this country start small enterprises. They register the business and are sooner than later left to themselves for survival. No tax breaks. No Start-up loans. No government grants
Easy credits they can get, while reasonable rents are nonexistent and to employ even competent hands is near impossible as education continues to fail the Nigerian economy
Do they pack up and leave?
Nope!
They dig even dipper, try even harder and continue to record heavenly profit in a terrain where even Angels and the world’s brightest minds shudder to thread
Today, I acknowledge your efforts, all you who work in Nigeria
Today I recognise all your contributions to this economy in way that is improving our GDP and PPP
Today I commend all your labour, your hardwork, countless partnership and many relationships that is deepening this economy beyond Crude Oil and Telecommunications
I know those salaries you earn are miserly and they cannot support you,
I agree your profits are minisicle and they cannot sustain you
I believe thing can improve better to make your life easier
I am sure Government can make policies, create infrastructures and encourage you in way that can beautify your existence
But while I can’t promise to do all this,
While I can’t just swoosh my rod and make all your pains go away,
While I can’t in one sentence Right all the wrongs and make everything colourful
I can do this bit at least…
I can Praise, Pose and Pray: (Your voice should be deep and forceful here!!!)
So now I Praise:
I praise your efforts, your doggedness and unrelenting spirit
I praise all the efforts when the salaries were not enough-how you came to work with your bank statements in red, how you kept you sanity when you were mired in debts and how you never ran off, committed suicide or caved in when the tides of life swam in
I praise you doggedness, as you never stopped working when there was no transport to convey you, how you swam and wade through the tide when the streets were flooded to stand still and even how you trekked your shoes into holes when petrol prices literarily went through the roof
I praise your unrelenting spirit. The never-give-up attitude that keeps you getting up daily even when life knocks you down with wrong policies, personal tragedies or even global disasters like the cataclysmic Global meltdown
Indeed, Nigerian worker, you are worthy of my praise
Again Today, I Pose:
I pose you a challenge to never let in or give up
I challenge you to raise your bar higher to pursue excellence and decide to never have a better yesterday
I challenge you the Nigerian Worker to work like the business was yours, resume on time, and close longer that you were paid for
Make sure your boss, customer or whoever you are accountable to get much more than they are paying you for
Let your contribution be dignifying in content and exceptional in presentation
And for the entrepreneur, be thou discouraged NOT
Offer services that are second to none, create product with global relevance
Let it be said of you that you gave your best ALWAYS
And even if your boss, the government, Economy or even customer may not be able or willing to reward your labour, REST ASSURED that there is always a recompense for excellence
And finally Today I pray:
That your strength will not abate
I pray for you Nigerian worker, that as you continue to purse your just cause with righteous intentions and positive mentality,
I pray the heaven will reward your efforts and that your salaries, income and profits would be guided by grace enough to satisfy you
I pray your back will not break under this load, and where and when you need help, it will arrive
To the Nigerian worker, my prayer for you is this Month of May is that may the future be Better, Brighter and more Beautiful than your past and present combined
Happy workers day to us all
@Basamta
28.4.13
"A Sincere Prayer By A Novice"
Looking back through the years, I took a trip down memory lane, way back to my days in elementary (primary) school. I remember the Head-teacher of my school often picked on pupils at random to step forward and lead the assembly prayers (Her usual practice). But what fascinated me back then was this; whenever any pupil was called out to pray, they all prayed one line in common. Here it goes;
"O'Lord God, give us WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING"
Being the young inquisitive boy that I was, never had peace with that line, as I always wondered why we had to ask for all three. As for me, as far as I understood then, they all meant one thing; "O'Lord Let Us Score 10/10".
Obviously, this was one case of;
"A Sincere Prayer By A Novice".
Growing up into secondary school, I discovered the same line of prayer was also continually repeated there. It was then I took my inquisitiveness to another level; I decided to find out what all-3 meant.
I had a dictionary, an "Oxford Pocket Dictionary" at that time. It provided me with all-3 meanings, but believe me, I still couldn't comprehend a thing about them, they looked the more the same to me.
Today, am a better man, having understood what these 3-Giant words really mean, I mean individually and comparatively.
Hence, I thought it wise to share this piece with you. Please do well to read it up, if you can't at a glance, read and come back to finish up, not bothering how many times you'll have to come back here.
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Knowledge is a noun that refers to the information, understanding and skills that you gain through education or experience. It refers to the hard facts and the data that can be available to anyone if he has the right resources. For example, you can have practical, medical or scientific knowledge. You can also say that someone has a wide knowledge of, for example, the taxation system.
Knowledge also refers to the state of knowing about a particular fact or situation. For example, she sent the letter without my knowledge or the film was made with the King’s full knowledge and approval. Knowledge can also be used as an idiom . For example, something can be common or public knowledge implying that everyone in a particular group or community knows about it. For example, you can say someone’s dishonesty was common knowledge in the group.
Knowledge is so un-overemphasizably important. This notwithstanding, let's check "Wisdom".
Wisdom, on the other hand, is a noun that refers to the ability to make sensible decisions and give good advice because of the experience and knowledge that you have. Someone may have all the knowledge about a subject but may not have the wisdom to utilize this knowledge properly to be able to act in a sensible manner! That is why they say you can gain knowledge by educating yourself but you can gain wisdom only by experience.
Wisdom can also be used as referring to the sensibility of doing something. For example, you can say I question the wisdom of giving a child so much money. Wisdom also refers to the knowledge that a society or culture has gained over a long period of time. For example, the wisdom of the Native Akwa-Ibom people.
Wisdom when used in the phrase ‘conventional wisdom’ refers to the collective belief or view that a people or society can have.
Understanding (also called intellection) is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object. Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding. Understanding implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object of knowledge sufficient to support intelligent behavior.
Friends, it is vivid and crystal clear that Knowledge is like a live bullet, contained in a gun (Understanding), that requires a force (Wisdom) to pull the trigger. A man with all the knowledge and understanding in the world will appear and remain a fool until he has discovered wisdom and added it to whatever it is that he's got earlier.
All the while I was praying this line, I never knew what I was praying for, nor why and if I even needed it. Without mistaking, I was ignorant, a pure novice in the field and realm of prayers I was offering, but now the story is different! And I'm pretty sure it is for many too, just as it must have gotten another step better after reading through this article.
With this I'll conclude;
"Get Knowledge, Collect Along With It Understanding, but Leave Not Without WISDOM". -TW™
The Wordsmith™
(2013).
26.4.13
ETISALAT Responds!!!
Etisalat Nigeria has hit back at MTN Nigeria, following the later's TV commercial "I Don Port" which featured ace comedian and Nollywood star "Saka" (Haffeez Ayetoro) in what many now dub as "The Best TVC ever made in Nigeria.
This is sure to make a good laugh for the night.
ETISALAT RESPONDS?!!!
Unconfirmed reports have it that Etisalat is set to replace Saka ( Who went for an irresistable 20million offer from MTN) with Hakeem Kae-Kazim. Steve Babaeko the brain behind somn of Etisalat’s successful commercials, seems he has a plan to bring Nigerian-born Hollywood actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim.
But in the meantime, what we've got is a picture (see image above) that has been circulating online as a supposed response from Etisalat to MTN, this move is yet another good counter attack, who wins at the end of the day?
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GOAL vs AMBITION. -Any Difference?
Goal vs Ambition:
Have you any Goals and/or Ambitions?
Have you ever wondered if these two words have everything or anything in common?
Do you see any difference between the two?
This piece would help you clarify exactly what they are.
Let's kick off from here!
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“Goal” and “ambition” are often used interchangeably as many thought that both contain the same meaning. Although both terms are used in the same context, they are completely different from one another.
A “goal” refers to the specific result, destination of the ambition, or effort. It can be also called a specific target, aim, or objective that serves as the focus of achievement. Goals can have a variety of descriptions including; success, distinction, or achievement.
“Ambition,” on the other hand, refers to the determination in reaching a goal or any of its relative terms. Aside from the inclination and determination, it is also referred to as the process of achieving something. In having and fulfilling an ambition, the result will often bring personal satisfaction and advancement for the person.
Both “ambition” and “goal” can be specific in nature. Specific goals refer to specific results while specific ambition can refer to specific choices or decisions regarding the course of attaining a goal.
Ambition, as a process, requires more action and planning while a goal can be static and function as a descriptive label that can also be quantified. In contrast, “ambition” is harder to define or quantify.
To compare, “ambition” can be said as the means while “goal” is the end. “Goal” also refers to the development of the mind. In contrast, ambition is the development of the future.
Goals are characterized as possibilities that are possible to happen but not necessarily achievable despite all one’s ambition and determination.
In terms of time and duration, most goals are classified as short-term or as long-term goals. Ambition is technically a long term because it involves a process and all the possible consequences and unforeseen events of the course in pursuing a goal.
Ambition can also change depending on the realities and circumstances in the process. Ambition greatly affects the development and potential completion of the presented goals.
Goals, meanwhile, can also change either in a small or large scale depending on what development happened in the process.
In terms of word function, “ambition” can be used as a noun with adjective and adverb derivations. On the other hand, “goal” is only used as a noun.
Summary:
1. “Goal” is the specific destination or result of ambition. Meanwhile, “ambition” refers to the determination and process in reaching a specific goal. In a sense, a goal is the fruit of ambition.
2. Goals can function as nouns while ambition can function in three ways; noun, adjective, and adverb.
3. Ambition is the process whereas the goal is the end or product of that process. Also, without ambition, a goal cannot be fulfilled. Without a goal, ambition has no direction.
4. “Goal” and “ambition” both strive to earn or achieve a specific station or state after it has been completed. After completion, both a goal and ambition give a sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, and pleasure to the person.
5. A goal’s emphasis is on the definite objective while ambition can also refer to the level of determination that is applied for the pursuit of the goal.
6. Goals are measurable in a specific period of time. Goals can be short-term or long-term. Both classifications can also be used independently or at the same time. However, “ambition” can be measured in the duration of the process. Ambition is usually long-term because of the duration of the process and consequences of the efforts within the process.
7. “Goal” is characterized as the development of the mind while “ambition” is the development of the future.
8. A good standard of a goal follows the SMART acronym: specific, measurable, results-oriented, achievable, and time-bound
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Credits: TheDifferenceBetween (2013).
24.4.13
"I DON PORT GO!" -A Toast To Friendship.
Friends roll in like wheels, everyone of them taking their turns as vacancies exist.
New friends become priorities, while old ones become assets, and in some cases mere options.
Its only a matter of time before we realise that old friends taste like old wine, better every passing day.
New friends with all fairness to them, make you feel friendship in a fresher way, revitalizing your soul, at those moments they're the only ones you want to spend/invest your energy (Airtime, Talk time, Travel time etc) on.
Its so fresh (New friendships) it intoxicates you, sometimes making you feel you're above, over and done with the older ones.
A piece of advice to all, Its been said that friends are forever, but don't be carried away by such illusion, "20-friends cannot play together for 20-years" - (So says a wise Yoruba{South-Western, Nigeria} proverb).
Setting things a little more on the balance, "Remember those (Friends) you met on your way up, you just might meet them again when you coming down.
Why must I come down? (I perceive someone is asking).
Well life they say is a pendulum, it goes back & forth, no condition like they say, is permanent.
I'll borrow another leaf from another Yoruba wise saying; "Atori laye, to ba lo siwaju, atun lo sehin".
Conclusively on this piece, I'll wind down with my own submission;
Make new friends so you don't get stale. (The more frequently you update your friend-base, the more the exposure and information you gather).
This notwithstanding, do not lose your old friends, they're the true ones most of the times.
But in the meantime, if you've seen me in time past, and now you see me no more around your shores, just know it, the matter sounds like "Saka's" (Haffez Ayetoro), putting it straight to you mon ami, "Gbabe, I DON PORT GO!!!"
Sincerely speaking, I LOVE MY NEW FRIENDS, YET I CHERISH THE OLD ONES. Every/Anytime we get to meet again, memories will knit us as keenly as we used to be.
The times we've spent together makes it easiest for us to bond again.
All these said and quoted, a constant check on your old friends will do you no harm. It will instead profit the world if everyone will do like wise.
Pick your phone, scroll down your phonebook, dust again your oldest diaries, contact list, and hook up again with 2 or more old friends.
Its so so sweet I tell you!
Abeg, No Port Go Like So.
The Wordsmith™
(C) 2013.
18.4.13
WHERE ARE YOU POINTING?
...Yes it's true, and it still stands very true, that "Someone, at least one person must be to blame or held responsible for any occurrence or happening"
Nothing just happens, yes, someone/a group of persons, spirits etc somewhere is/are responsible for them.
Having said all this, the question on my mind still remains unanswered, and myself unsatisfied by the above.
It is a good thing to identify who/what your problem(s) or their causes are, yet it saddens my heart to see that some do not just ever claim a share of blame in any matter, as their minds are configured by default to a particular setting or state of mind that I term; "It Wasn't Me" , "It's Not My Fault" , "Ask Him/Her" , "They Caused It" mentality.
Wait a second please, I need you to run a check for your own good, yet on my behalf, using the statement below.
What is the psychological state of your index finger?
*Always pointing forward?
*Always pointing upward?
*Always pointing inwards?
***Deep Sigh***
There is a matter here, and together we shall unravel it.
When the psychological state of your index finger points INWARDS always, it shows that you; Accept responsibilities for things that go wrong or right with you. It also depicts a sense of Maturity, Correctability, Self-scrutiny, yet it could also reflect some signs of being Pitiable/always wanting to be pitied (Not in many cases).
I haven't said this is or should be the perfect direction/position of your mind's and in-turn, physical index finger. (Read more).
Some people really don't believe that anyone or thing is responsible for their either good or bad situations, they point UPWARD all the time, every and anything that happens to them, good or bad, is/was caused by a Supreme Being (GOD). This category of thinkers, leave a whole lot to be debated, especially of the subject of whether man has or makes any input to life, or everything is outrightly 'dictated' by God (Even when you slap a fellow human being).
These guys (Upward pointers) blame it all on God, they never get to do it wrong. God this, God that, Destiny this, Destiny That,... You'll ear them say things like "errrhm, If God didn't want the accident to occur, he won't allow the driver get drunk, eventhough he empties a bottle of Pastis". Like I told you earlier, they open a whole lot for debate. The debate doesn't and I fear, cannot end!
The FORWARD pointers, are such an amazing set of people, somebody/something (never them) is always the cause of their misfortune. These set of people are those I call for short, "The Accusers".
***Deep Sigh***
Am glad to know that you're quietly examining and running a check on yourself, hoping to find out where you stand in the whole of this.
The accusers are never bothered in the face of a problem. Well, if anything bothers them, it must be the search of who'll carry the load of blames they are about to generate.
So very funny a set of beings, their first and often their only thought in the face of a problem is, Who is to blame? Who takes the fault? And never, Where do we go from here?.
These sets of beings hardly make tangible progress in life endeavors, they constitute the bulk of the rigidity on earth. They are notoriously rebellious, they are so who they are that they would shift even a possible, eventual or futuristic blames to others before/at the onset of an activity. They are those who would regularly and comfortably tell you things like; "If it doesn't work, it's your fault, let me just tell you before we start".
'The Accusers' didn't just arrive at who they are, they were formed by a series of pessimism. Hence, their metamorphosis to being forward pointers. They are often already overwhelmed by the fear of failure, and in many causes, people with this trait/mentality often do not care about other peoples emotions (They carry a heart of stone).
I must also be careful to note with you here that, 'the accusers' are proud people, sometimes to the extreme (Haughtiness). Hence, their understanding that; "Someone definitely is to be blame, but it cannot be me, I don't make mistakes, I'm careful, I'm calculated, I'm smart ....etc."
***Deep Sigh*** let's proceed!
Forward pointers are not condemned, no they aren't , their minds can still be worked upon, if only for once they can be made to accept responsibility for their change. They can experience, I'll better say; they can build a new character, they can stun the world with a change of heart.
How? I perceive you're asking.
By following a step-wise process of mind regeneration. First of all, they need to let go of their pride and haughtiness, they need to understand and accept that they are fallible.
For those of them who are yet pagans, they need to encounter SALVATION, they need God work on their lives, and thereafter will commence a regeneration/renewal of mind.
NOTE: It is not as though the other two categories of pointers are exonerated from a need for Salvation or a renewal of mind, we all need it, but as you know, even a physical clinic in its little wisdom categorize some health cases as EMERGENCY, and when in a real terrible state, such cases are channeled to the INTENSIVE CARE UNIT. Now how much more God in his magnificent wisdom?
There isn't a per-say a recommended position of your mind's index finger, but I can tell you that if you look closely enough, you'll find within your heart of heart, the RIGHT BALANCE.
I'll rather prefer to speak elaborately on this subject than write, I'm careful not to belabour you beyond limits, I really need not pen all I have to say here and on this platform.
Still I believe THIS LITTLE CAN DO MUCH. -TW™
Its The Wordsmith™
(C) 2013.
15.4.13
"In His Shoes, In Her Shoes. -(The Story)"
Tunde could be wrong to have concluded the way he did, no doubt. Yet we just might need something genuine and substantial to prove him and his notions wrong.
A man in his mid 30's who has had everything going fine for him from his first draw of breath in far away Wilkinson's Maternity Hospital, Arkansas, in the United States of America, where he was born to a complete Nigerian parents who happened to be fun seekers in the US.
By all standards, he had the best of time growing up, attended the best of schools, and awarded/rewarded with the best of certificates and in-turn qualifications. Tunde's life no doubt is such everyone would wish they had.
At 30, he was group managing director of a Multinational audit firm. Ofcourse, what do you expect from a 1st class student of Audits and Finance? Comfort was the last thing he worried about, as he controlled a large fleet of cars, commanded the best gadgets around, visas to over 16-european countries was always somewhere in the inner compartments of his briefcase, as he was ready to travel anywhere with the shortest of notice.
A beautiful life I must say, what more can one ask for?
Taking audits of his life, 10-years down the line, the young millionaire found out he was lacking something, a particular void in his life was yet to be filled.{So its true, one cannot have all at the same time}.
A lady to call his wife, and a child to call his own was all that was left before his life could be called a perfect one, so he thought. At 39, 'audit results' showed great external progress (Fame, Wealth, Economic Relevance etc.), while the other end of the results showed a sharp, steadily declining internal (Mind) progress. Obviously, an African man, especially one with a complete African background like his, would be disturbed by the fact that he's turned 40, without a wife nor a kid. {Wow, the rich truly also cry!}
Getting a woman to marry wouldn't be a problem, not for persons of Tunde's caliber. Only four months and 3-days passed in the search, before Tunde walked his newly found love Yemi, down the aisle. {Is there really a need for a delay in accepting a proposal from a Tunde?}
5-years down the line, his dreams obviously had come true, a perfect life was soon becoming an understatement, one would need another word to justify Tunde's experience of life. It was awesome, I can tell but a few stories.
15-years into a blissful marriage, one now blessed with 2 wonderful children, a boy(Olawepo) and a beautiful girl (Oyinkansola), tragedy stuck! Mr and Mrs Gbadebo (Tunde's parents) had died in an ill-fated plane crash on a trip to the UAE. Suddenly, the eyes that have never known tears except as a baby, shed them profusely as he received news of their demise.
Things didn't look like they were getting any better, as the year that followed was characterized by a number of unfortunate events in Tunde's family life, including the loss of Olawepo, who was stabbed to death by a gang of racist boys in far away Poland where he was having his education. {Sometimes, troubles meet troubles on ground}.
There were no tougher years in Tunde's life than the years after his marriage. Obviously, the once awesome life, envied and wished for by many, was fast becoming one you don't want to think of having anymore. {Life kicks everyone's butt one time or the other}.
Depressed, Confused, Broken hearted, and Sad beyond words can describe, Tunde in his usual practice, took again audits of his life journey, this time, with Yemi (his wife) by his side.
The following discussion ensued;
As she sat by him, he whispered, eyes full of tears, "You know what?
(Talking to his wife, Yemi)
You have been with me all through the bad times.
When I lost my mom and dad, you stood by me.
When I got fired, you were there to support me.
When my business failed, you were there.
When I got shot, you were by my side.
When we lost the house, you stayed right here.
When my health started failing, you were still by my side...
You know what Yemi?"
"What dear?" she gently asked, smiling as her heart began to fill with warmth.
"I'm beginning to think YOU ARE BADLUCK!."
Shocked and confused, she slumped. Most certainly, it was the last thing(if on the list at all) she prepared her heart to take. {Hope for the best, yet be prepared for the worst}.
NOTE: Now return to the opening paragraph of this article. Tell me, tell the world, If you were him, if she was you...
What do you think?
How do you see this one?
Any Lessons?
In addendum, do pay quality attention to the words/thoughts enclosed in special brackets.
The Wordsmith™
(C) 2013.
11.4.13
All Ends In The Same Market
In the part of Africa where I come from, there are designated market days. In pre-colonial and post-colonial days, the calendars were different and in every four days came a market day. The arrival of the market day brings joy to everyone, young and old, buyer or seller, they all knew they'll be better off than the previous day, since it was also a day in which the produce from different farms exchange ownership, and money by extension exchanges hands, and those who were in need of food and/or other items will have their wants and needs satisfied.
Right from those days, the market day has been "The moment of truth". That special day where produce from various farms test wits, both in size, quality and quality. The farmer with the best output earned the most, and ends up with the fattest purse. It was was nobody's business how he went about his produce.
These days the markets have changed a lot. It has expanded to contain not only farm produce but household, industrial articles to mention but a few. Not only has its product base increased, its days have also increased from a one day affair to an everyday affair and its product base increased to include services offered directly by humans and even machines. This notwithstanding, the rewards for quantity and quality still holds securely its place.
Bringing our country into the equation lots of things come to mind. A couple of days of days back I was in a British Curriculum school in Abuja to render some services and something struck me as though it was my first time. I have been to a couple of British Curriculum schools and international schools but on this particular occasion watching the students while doing my business, all of a sudden it occurred to me that all ends in the same market. There seem to be a predominant pattern. From age one, those children have begun to interact with computers, children’s programs on subscribed tv channels, they play with i-pads, they know Pinocchio, ben 10, all the major comics, they already know that behind every puppet is a puppeteer. At age five they have read more books than some adults have done their lifetime) and by the time they are in Junior secondary class one, they are on the average two years ahead of their peers academically.
By the time they are through with secondary school, most proceed to the US or UK for their degree programs while the others whose parents may be too strict to allow go abroad would continue in universities like American University of Nigeria, covenant university, Redeemers, Bowen, Bells and the likes of them. Far away from strike actions that could result in the number of years they are expected to be in universities to be extended.
From there, all proceed for master’s degree and the brilliant ones continue to doctorate level. Their career path had been mapped out and is usually followed judiciously.
But permit me to tell you of another set of people, most of whom had no one to plan their future, they had to experiment with life itself, grope in the darkness of ignorance, fumble and often fail before they are able to locate their bearing. Most of them usually get convinced by their parents especially the firstborn males to learn a trade in order to support the family and train their younger ones. Some other lucky ones had to manage to go through primary school. They fail again and again since they have no idea why they were in school in the first place. Some would eventually prefer to stay with mum in her shop and hoard some money as they service customers. The only consolation for the school thingy was the friends they attended it together. By the time SSCE is over, some others could not endure it anymore and had to drop, find something else doing, lessen dad and mum’s burdens and maybe try out a trade. Others who managed to go through the community school, at age ten, they still learn the English name of things and animal, by having the names translated to English from their local dialect. Some of these people would manage, by hook, crook or any means to make their ways to citadels of higher learning like Enugu State University, Ekiti State University, OSU etc. passing through untold difficulties, days on end without food, missing scripts and spending two to three extra years for strike’s sake and another two years waiting for NYSC to call. By his time the man has gone past 27 is fast approaching the NYSC exemption age.
And finally, all come to the same market. But then everyone comes in his or her different uniform. While Mr. Poor and middleclass is coming in far older, having forgotten most of what they have been taught in school, Mr. Rich is coming in fresh with a master’s degree from UK armed with enough information to convince a panel of interviewers of his true worth.
So they apply for the same job and the employer emphatically states that he would only need ages less than 25. Mr. rich is 22 and has a master’s degree, but all ends in the same market.
Even though our markets were large and lots of people troop the market, not all home come to buy or sell. Some have come to buy, other have come to sell, some too came for sight-seeing. The typical African market is often an eventful scene to cast a glance on. Somehow we seem to forget that after people have gone to school they end in a market, a real world where you are expected to get a job.
In reality, we are our own bosses. We are responsible for our lives and if for the sake of the government, or some people we decide to spend the developmental part of our lives living in denial, then we may have to spend the rest of our days reaping the deadly effect. The laws of nature may be broken but not without consequences. Irrespective of who you are, or where you are, if you jump up, you must come back down. And if you jump from a fourteen story building simply because you are angry that the government has not provided the basic amenities you would otherwise have needed to become a better person, the fact that you did it in anger over the poor performance of the government can never stop you from or save you from the unforgiving cold hard concrete floor hundreds of feets below.
At the end, when everyone faces the real world, the question becomes how well do you know how to do what you do? The guy that left after secondary school to become a trader in Oshodi market would not be asked by his customers why he dropped out or if has any regrets. They would expect maximum customer satisfaction from the services or sales he offers. The mechanic that dropped out in primary three because his father died and had nobody to train him would never get preferential treatment from his customers because he suffered such fate. He would remain in business as long as the services he renders his customers are of such good quality that they are able to come back again. The young man who finally graduated from university at age 28 after losing extra three years to incessant strike actions and missing scripts amidst untold difficulties we went through would not tell the interview his story. All the interviewer wants to know is: is he qualified for the job? If in the course of time he has forgotten most of the things he was thought, he may need divine intervention to get a job. Even master’s degree certificate holders who studied in the UK have not all got good jobs yet, talk more of a bachelor’s degree holder who doesn’t even remember the smallest definition or application of what he read.
In the end all come to the same market, but the market would not ask after your story, it would only request result. Except your God is with you... *Deep Sigh* aal iz well!
Credits: Ifeanyi Igbokwe.
Forewords: TW™
10.4.13
Going To (X) for (X) Month(s). (Breaking The Code)
Lately, the world (Social Media) has experienced a couple of updates and post from dudes, stating that they were headed somewhere exotic for a weird number of months...
Here's the code breaker.
You use the month and day you were born on.
Write: "I am going to live in (month you were born [see below) for (day you were born) months!
January - Mexico
February - London
March - Miami
April - Dominican Republic
May - France
June - St. Petersburg
July - Austria
August - Germany
September - New York
October - Amsterdam
November - Las Vegas
December - Columbia
Apparently I'm going to St. Petersburg for 4 months.
Now how does that fit-in or correlate with a Breast Cancer/ Cancer awareness???
We're obviously trivializing a matter of serious concern. Thus far, a handful of dudes putting this code up and circulating it, hardly even know what the original intentions are.
Breast Cancer, alongside other members of the cancer family ravaging human population is real, deadly, yet curable (If detected early). Stay alert, Stay aware!
It's The Wordsmith™
Here's the code breaker.
You use the month and day you were born on.
Write: "I am going to live in (month you were born [see below) for (day you were born) months!
January - Mexico
February - London
March - Miami
April - Dominican Republic
May - France
June - St. Petersburg
July - Austria
August - Germany
September - New York
October - Amsterdam
November - Las Vegas
December - Columbia
Apparently I'm going to St. Petersburg for 4 months.
Now how does that fit-in or correlate with a Breast Cancer/ Cancer awareness???
We're obviously trivializing a matter of serious concern. Thus far, a handful of dudes putting this code up and circulating it, hardly even know what the original intentions are.
Breast Cancer, alongside other members of the cancer family ravaging human population is real, deadly, yet curable (If detected early). Stay alert, Stay aware!
It's The Wordsmith™
9.4.13
She "Doesn't Work"
A husband complains for feeling tired... tired and tired.... and wants his wife help him on earning money by also working, because so far he thinks that his wife is 'not working'.
Following are Question and Answer between The Husband (H) and The Psychologist (P):
P : What do you for a living Mr. Bandy?
H : I work as an Accountant in a Bank.
P : Your Wife ?
H : She doesn't work. She's a Housewife only.
P : Who makes breakfast for your family in the morning?
H : My Wife, because she doesn't work.
P : At what time your wife wakes up for making breakfast?
H : She wakes up at around 5am because she cleans the house first before making breakfast.
P : How do your kids go to school?
H : My wife takes them to school, because she doesn't work.
P : After taking kids to school, what does she do?
H : She goes to the market, then go back home for cooking and laundrying clothes. You know, she doesn't work.
P : In the evening, after you go back home from office, what do you do?
H : Take rest, because i'm tired due to all day works.
P : What does your wife do then?
H : She prepares meals, serving our kids, preparing meals for me and cleaning the dishes, cleaning the house then taking kids to bed.
From the story above, who do you think works more???
The daily routines of your wives commence from early morning to late at night. That is called 'DOESN'T WORK'??!!
Yes, Being Housewives do not need Certificate of Study, even High Position, but their ROLE/PART is very important!
Appreciate your wives. Because their sacrifices are uncountable. This should be a reminder and reflection for all us to understand and appreciate each others roles.
All about a WOMAN ..
When she is quiet, millions of things are running in her mind.
When she is not arguing, she is thinking deeply.
When she stares at you, she is wondering why she loves you so much inspite of being taken for granted.
SHOUT OUT to all career women who have combined all these with their chosen careers, and also to prospective career women who look forward to incorporating all these into their business and life as a wife and most demanding, a mother.
The Wordsmith™ appreciates you!
Credits : Came accross this like some did, couldn't but blog it.
Following are Question and Answer between The Husband (H) and The Psychologist (P):
P : What do you for a living Mr. Bandy?
H : I work as an Accountant in a Bank.
P : Your Wife ?
H : She doesn't work. She's a Housewife only.
P : Who makes breakfast for your family in the morning?
H : My Wife, because she doesn't work.
P : At what time your wife wakes up for making breakfast?
H : She wakes up at around 5am because she cleans the house first before making breakfast.
P : How do your kids go to school?
H : My wife takes them to school, because she doesn't work.
P : After taking kids to school, what does she do?
H : She goes to the market, then go back home for cooking and laundrying clothes. You know, she doesn't work.
P : In the evening, after you go back home from office, what do you do?
H : Take rest, because i'm tired due to all day works.
P : What does your wife do then?
H : She prepares meals, serving our kids, preparing meals for me and cleaning the dishes, cleaning the house then taking kids to bed.
From the story above, who do you think works more???
The daily routines of your wives commence from early morning to late at night. That is called 'DOESN'T WORK'??!!
Yes, Being Housewives do not need Certificate of Study, even High Position, but their ROLE/PART is very important!
Appreciate your wives. Because their sacrifices are uncountable. This should be a reminder and reflection for all us to understand and appreciate each others roles.
All about a WOMAN ..
When she is quiet, millions of things are running in her mind.
When she is not arguing, she is thinking deeply.
When she stares at you, she is wondering why she loves you so much inspite of being taken for granted.
SHOUT OUT to all career women who have combined all these with their chosen careers, and also to prospective career women who look forward to incorporating all these into their business and life as a wife and most demanding, a mother.
The Wordsmith™ appreciates you!
Credits : Came accross this like some did, couldn't but blog it.
4.4.13
MANAGING ANXIETY
(Anxiety: definition;)
*A vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of something.
*1. Being anxious. 2. Worry or concern. 3. Eagerness, troubled desire. (Oxford Dictionary of English.)
It is an emotional state in which people feel uneasy, apprehensive, or fearful. All people experience anxiety to some degree. Most people feel anxious when faced with a new situation, such as a first date, or when trying to do something well.
Generally, expectations breed anxiety. A mild to moderate amount of anxiety in situations that warrant them is normal and even beneficial. Anxiety can motivate people to prepare for an upcoming event and can help keep them focused on the task at hand. People usually experience anxiety about events they cannot control or predict, or about events that seem threatening or dangerous.
However, too little anxiety or too much anxiety can cause problems. Individuals who feel no anxiety when faced with an important situation may lack alertness and focus. On the other hand, individuals who experience an abnormally high amount of anxiety often feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to accomplish the task at hand. People with too much anxiety often suffer from one of the anxiety disorders, a group of mental illnesses. In fact, more people experience anxiety disorders than any other type of mental illness. Recent surveys showed that people aged 15 to 54 are anxiety prone, and that about 17 percent of this population suffers from an anxiety disorder during any given year
The physical symptoms of anxiety reflect a chronic “readiness” to deal with some future threat. These symptoms may include fidgeting, muscle tension, sleeping problems, and headaches. Higher levels of anxiety may produce such symptoms as rapid heartbeat, sweating, increased blood pressure, nausea, and dizziness.
Haven stated all these; it’s vivid to note that managing anxiety should be an issue for consideration.
I stated earlier that expectation breeds anxiety, in-fact, “EXPECTATION IS THE MOTHER OF ANXIETY”.
What then do we tackle, Anxiety or Expectation?
Logically, what is most appropriate to tackle is ‘How We Manage Expectations’. If expectations really breeds anxiety, and anxiety itself breeds a myriad of problems, both to man’s mind, spirit and body.
Firstly, it’s expedient that we take a look at the origin of expectation itself. A PROMISE is the mother of expectation. THERE IS HARDLY A FORM OF EXPECTATION THAT WAS NOT BORNE OUT OF A PROMISE SOMEWHERE, SOMEWAY, SOMEHOW.
William Shakespeare once said, and I quote:
“I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone!”
Expectations hurt, whether or not they come to pass eventually. The periods during the time of waiting saps a whole lot out of you that even the joy of accomplishment will need time to restore back to you, and if on the other hand it fails, it only amounts to a double loss. So, why not keep your cool? Why over work yourself over a promise, when the one who promised you is subject to time and circumstances too?
“Those who worry to the extreme heights of anxiety often do not live long enough to witness the promise being fulfilled”. -TW™
“Let’s not quibble over semantics and face reality, a promise isn’t a promise until it has been fulfilled (especially when made by man)” –A.Tumo.
The only one whose promise is worth your anxiety is God, and even Him in his magnificence has even told you not to WORRY (Matt 6:25) or be ANXIOUS of anything (Phil 4:6).
NOTE: “When God gives you a PROMISE, don’t you ever be afraid or worry about the PROCESS”. -Anonymous
So, have you a promise by man? Relax your nerves; it’s a 50-50 (Because he’s human and subject to life and circumstances).
Many a times, we do not even size up the source of the promises we are ‘dying’ over. To rely or attach importance to a promise, one must first trace the track records of the origins of such promises. It is of importance to your health to note the sequence of previous promises made by such sources, and how they turned out eventually. It’s no joke to be expectant or be in a position of expectation. Like I said earlier, it takes a lot from you (Energy, Time, Emotions, Health, etc.)
“A ‘promise’ was not actually a promise; it attains that status only after fulfilment”. For those who can swallow that line, please do swallow. And for those who still can’t, please do work at it.
One too many mental cases have been recorded, and in extreme cases, deaths resulting from our inability to manage anxiety. Don’t let your case degenerate to this.
Amongst worse cases recorded are, anxiety on issues bothering around; Marriage, Relationships, Jobs, Securing Contracts and Surgical operations.
Managing your anxiety is your duty; nobody is going to do it for you!
Perhaps at first your expectation was to see me put up a table or list of things you must do, or process you must follow to manage anxiety. Like; squeeze a stress ball (very popular), talk back to yourself, change your location/environment, occupy yourself with activity, etc. Believe me, all these are good, and they often help to some extent, but nothing does you good like addressing the basics of anxiety and its management (The MIND), which I hope my preceding paragraphs have done.
It’s a mind thing, and the mind has got to be properly configured and/or reconfigured.
Remember this; “You are not being abnormal to be anxious, you would only succeed in becoming one if you don’t manage it properly. –TW™
The Wordsmith™
(C) 2013.
29.3.13
You Didn't Deserve To Die, I Didn't Deserve Your Life.
"Though you knew the world won't receive you, you still gave your life to try. Wonderful Jesus, how can I fathom you!" -TW™
What a burden you chose to carry, what a load of Sin.
Without my burden, you rode on a donkey, with mine and the whole world's upon you, you decided walking on your feet was better.
What manner of man are you? You saw us kill you, yet you allowed it, for you, anything will do, just as long as it'll please the Father.
The bruises and the stripes alone was good enough, if it was just about the shedding of blood, you gave it in good quantity through the torture suffered in the hands of the Roman soldiers, you really did not need to die.
This was more, this was great, in fact, "Greater love than this no man can give". You paid it all, you laid your life, you paid the ultimate price that I might live.
Rejected and abandoned, yet all you saw was me.
Disgraced, crucified and killed for a crime you had no hand in, yet all you saw was the glory ahead.
Its amazing, so very amazing, that a KING will die for his irresponsible subjects. Your life didn't count to you, just as long as you could make mine count before the Father.
The pain of crucifixion and death was worth the while to you, just as long as my life would eventually be worth the while.
Jesus how could you? I never deserved your life, you never deserved to die!
In a whole new twist, you rose again on the third day!
There you are, sited on the right side of the Father, still interceeding for me day and night. Of a truth Jesus, your love for me just never ceases, your mercy never comes to an end.
Today is the day the world chose to remember your death on the ∙̇∙̇∙̣̣̣̣̣̇̇̇∙̣̣̣̣̣̇̇̇∙̇∙̇ (cross) of calvary, and your resurrection from death on the third day.
Not like millions will do it, but I join millions of souls saved, to say my special; THANK YOU JESUS, I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE SACRIFICE YOU MADE FOR ME ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY. AND IT WAS GREATER NEWS TO KNOW THAT YOU ROSE AGAIN!!!
There's is no other God who lived and never ever died, there's is no other God who never died!
Christ Jesus Reigns!
Its The Wordsmith™
28.3.13
Understanding Body Language.
"If the eyes are the windows of the soul, then the body is the mirror of our feelings. If we are feeling great it shows in how we hold and use our body. Conversely, if we look at someone else’s body we can often tell how they are feeling by the signals their body is giving. When it comes to dating, using/reading body language signals is a great tool.
In case you don’t think learning how to read and use body language is important, here are some statistics retrieved from my recent finding, courtesy: The boss himself, Philip Redhead.
7% of the information we receive is from what they actually say. 38% of information we receive is from the tone, inflection and speed of their voice. A staggering 55% of the information we receive is from their body language. These non-verbal signals will help you in dealing with the person but stay focussed on what the person is saying. If you focus too much on their body language signals, you and/or the other person may feel uncomfortable. It is useful to be able to read people’s body language, but it is equally useful to learn how to get your body to send the right signals and eliminate the wrong signals.
Look below for some body language signals. Be warned: body language is very much open to interpretation. Many signals have different meanings depending on the person/situation. Keep this mind when you assess a body language signal.
***Join me as we digest the following, edging closer to improving on our knowledge."
*Open arms: Energetically open and possibly feeling vulnerable. A good way to show you are approachable, especially when combined with open palms. Palms up/open hands: Defences down, an open heart .
*Palms on chest: When a person uses open palms that occasionally touch their chest, they are signalling honesty.
*Outward, upward hand movements: This conveys an open and positive message
*Folded arms: A defence mechanism that shows the person is not open to what is being said or done. May mean rejection, physically cold, stubborn in their outlook.
*Hands closed: A closed heart, doodling – Bored.
*Fist: Anger and to be avoided, physically cold, very tense, defiant or triumphant when held in air.
*Feet under the chair: A sign of eagerness.
*Looking around: Wants to get away, thinking about something else, bored with situation/conversation.
Stroking chin: Evaluating.
*Mirroring: This is evidence of two people getting on really well. Each person copies the other’s body language, usually subtly. Mirroring occurs with: Breathing, gestures, eye movement, leaning towards each other at the same time, crossed or uncrossed legs.
Speech pattern, Arm movement, or no arm movement , Emotive energy such as being excited, relaxed, etc. Note: If you practice this with somebody the key is to be subtle and not be a copycat. There is a natural rhythm to the process, which is the key.
*Yawning: Bored, tired and that may have nothing to do with the situation/conversation.
*Preening: This shows someone knows they are attractive For example, flicking or stroking their hair or adjusting a collar and/or a tie.
*Ear Tugging: Indecision, possible deception, puffing out chest – this has nothing to do with silicone implants. Men do this when demonstrating their attraction to someone.
*Nodding: The occasional nod from a listener to a speaker is a positive message. It is an indication they are listening and are interested.
*Too much nodding: This indicates the listener has lost interest and may be bored. (Probably where the saying ‘nodding off to sleep’ came from.)
Chopping hands down: This is an aggressive act, usually used to antagonise.
*Body space: Respect for the other person’s body space is crucial in gaining their trust. Stay at least one arm’s length away from them.
*Striding briskly: An outward display of confidence, anger.
*Gentle leg shaking: The person is mildly stimulated, may need to go to toilet.
*Vigorous leg shaking: Reveals apprehension and nerves, desperate to go to the toilet,
*On toes: Eagerness
*Clears throat: Anxiety, has a cough/sore throat, Habit.
*Pretends to kick imaginary things on ground - frustration
*Open feet: Reflecting and giving attention.
*Flushed cheeks: Indicates interest in the other person embarrassment (usually temporary)
*Dilated pupils: Interested in someone, focussed, high on drugs
*High blink rate: A person who has an interest in someone will have an increased blink rate, nervousness, assessing, has an eye disorder
*Backwards moving: Rejecting, escaping
*Moving away: Sometimes there is no hidden meaning.
*Slumped posture: Bored, low self-esteem/confidence
*Legs entwined: A woman who is interested in someone will often cross and uncross her legs when seated.
*Gazing: A woman will gaze long enough for someone to notice then will quickly look away. Her mouth may open and lips slightly wet.
*Low voice: When interested in someone a woman may speak in a low voice.
*Running hand along leg: Sexually interested in the other person
*Running hands along legs: Really sexually interested in the other person, getting ready to leave
*Directly facing you with open stance: The person is interested and you have their attention.
*Drumming finger: Impatient, May be a drummer.
*Open mouth: You have said something outrageous and their jaw has dropped in shock, the person has tried to interrupt the conversation to get a word in, but you haven’t paused, may be a sign of attraction
*Tilt of hips: Sign of attraction and a good flirting tool
*Finger pointing: Sign of assertiveness, sign of aggression.
*Open legs: Receptive to the other person.
*Staring: Defiance, sign of aggression
*Looks you in the eyes without staring: Confident, self-assured.
*Doesn’t look you in the eyes: Lack of confidence, is being deceptive
*Standing upright: Reflects inner confidence and comfort level.
*Chewing fingernails: Nervous, the person is not feeling secure. If they swallow, there may not be enough calcium in their diet.
*Quick and animated arm and hand movements: Lying
Note: Many honest, passionate people also do this.
*Darting eyes: Deception.
*Shifting eyes: At the very least may be a lack of confidence or at worst it is indication of a deception. Definitely means deception when combined with a nose rub and ‘umms’ and ‘ahhs’.
People tend to look down and to the left when lying.
*Running fingers through hair: Frustration , preening .
Credits: Philip Redhead.
How To Read Body Language.
(Empower Solutions)
2003.
24.3.13
To 'serve' or To 'serve'?
Wanting to be a female Corp Member without wearing trousers; how reasonable?
Haven laid hold of Tolu (The decamped corps member)'s story and reasons for being obstinate about wearing the khaki trouser, I felt we should look deeply into the matter and plot a way forward from here.
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"Tolulope, who was expelled from the nysc orientation camp last week said that wearing of trousers negate her Christian belief and values which she could not compromise.
She said, “I had a dream when I was 10 years. God appeared to me through a scripture that as a child of God, I must abstain from men’s wears and since then I have taken cognizance of it. And my parents know this as well.”
“Before I had the dream, I never wore trousers and even after the dream, up till now. I have not wore trousers. I explained everything to the leadership of the NYSC but they said the penalty for not wearing the khaki trousers is by being decamped.
“I faced a panel and I was directed to submit all the kits that were given to me at the camp, which I did. I was also ordered to go to the accounts unit and refund the N2, 500 transportation and bicycle allowances I was paid on the camp and I did so. All these happened on the same Friday that I was ordered to leave the camp.
“I want to serve my father land and if NYSC will allow me to wear skirt on the camp, I am ready to return to the orientation camp. My khaki and white skirts were made in such a way that they did not give me any problem. I was in Platoon Four and I participated actively in all the exercises from Tuesday to the Friday that I was thrown out of the camp,” Tolulope said". -Press Releases.
*** Reaction***
In life you get some, you lose some, as long as your gains out weighs your loses, you're on track. As it stays, only tolu can tell.
The police, Army, Navy, Air force etc in their magnanimity created an allowance for skirt wearing female officers (with the exception of combat uniforms like the camouflage I believe). Hence, there's always a way out. There are hundreds of Tolus out there (Christians / Muslims), we haven't seen nothing yet.
The hijab issue still lies boiling somewhere around the corner, only saved by the fact that no one has been kicked out of camp for wearing the hijab (perhaps the hijab wearing corp members are conforming now?).
There can someday be room for such religious interpretations in the NYSC, the scheme won't be the first to create such room, it's in operation even in the Force.
Tolu has lost the privilege to serve her fatherland via the NYSC (sub-paramilitary) scheme, for reasons stated by her as religious convictions. They're her conviction, yes, though extreme ones in my own submission. But like I said earlier concerning her being decamped, a loss or gain, "Only Tolu Can Tell".
***Submission***
Those who have been decamped for religious interpretations in dressing should either be recalled to serve as their religion permits or issued an extremist (they can call it whatever they please) certificate of exemption from NYSC, instead of being discharged empty handed. This will atleast qualify them for a job in institutions that uphold, condones or permit such religious interpretations. Tolu and others like her can have a place in Nigeria as they learn to count their cost even better.
The bottom line is : THEY SHOULDN'T BE DENIED THEIR RIGHTS TO THE NYSC AS NIGERIANS. There are better ways to handle this.
We should not watch while this also degenerates into another look alike of the " Boko Haram" insurgency. Like in the case of "Boko Haram", if western education is a taboo like they state, then the government can rid their land of western schools and let them design their own form/structure of education. How much has Nigeria/Nigerians gained in the tussle with Boko Haram? Thousands of deaths I guess?. "You can't force the horse to drink, all you can do is take him to the river".
That aside, NYSC is the issue for today.
A point of note for other Christian and Muslim extremist out there who look forward to incorporating some articles of their religion into the official look and costume of the NYSC, please beware, have a rethink, you're likely not to serve your fatherland via the NYSC nor be employable in Nigeria, if the submissions herein are not looked into/re-visited. Hence, count your cost properly, knowing your NYSC certificate is a precursor to employment in Nigeria.
So where do you stand, to serve (NYSC) or to serve (Religion/Convictions/Beliefs/Traditions etc)?.
Twitter: @Olalekanakogun
Web: www.olalekanakogun.blogspot.com
21.3.13
IT'S BEYOND THE COVER
It's beyond the cover, I tell you, it's beyond the cover,
You may think you're seeing it all, but it's beyond the cover.
The beauty of the glowing sun cannot compare to what it goes through to get that hot, radiant and gay. It's beyond what you see, I tell you it's beyond the cover.
The ocean and high seas look so blue and attractive at first look, probe to know what goes on deep down inside, then you'll realize without mistaking, it's beyond the cover.
The night falls, darkness come, and mankind goes to sleep. In the quiet of the night, creatures walk, creatures talk, creatures creep, creatures fall. Many things go right or wrong, but it's night is what you know, that it's night is what you see, *Deep Sigh* I tell you this, it's beyond the cover.
Man was made for all to see, but his inside was made for none to see. His words, acts and deeds remain the only clue to what's truly him, all we see, touch and feel are nothing but what is called a cover, as the man we seek to know lives and schemes behind the cover.
"He's so robust tall/short, fresh and gay, this exactly is what I see everyday in my dreams as I sleep".-Man. Can I quickly tell somebody, IT'S BEYOND THE COVER.
"She looks so nice, and carries no spots, her winks and blinks alone turns me on. I get enough motivation to live my day by merely looking into her eyes". -Man. Can I quickly let someone know, you'll someday wish you looked into her heart than her eyes, for IT'S BEYOND THE COVER.
It's beyond the cover, I tell you, it's beyond the cover,
You may think you're seeing it all, but it's beyond the cover.
"Life situations come hitting at us, some for good, some turn out bad. So many times we cannot tell for what reasons they have come, but we know one thing for sure, it's beyond the cover.
I have never subscribed to coincidence, and I never will, for all things happened for a reason, all things happen because someone made them happen. All things happen because someone/thing is behind the matter, and hence behind the cover. Nothing just happens,...only look behind the cover". -TW™
It's beyond the cover, I tell you, it's beyond the cover,
Not teaching to be suspicious, but rather not gullible/deceived, for it's beyond the cover.
"This offer looks irresistible, this kind approaches a man ones in a lifetime. I've got to nail, I've got to grab, I need not think it, it looks all I'm needing, it sounds all I want". -Man ...Believe these words when I tell you friend, THINK IT! For It's beyond the cover.
It's beyond the cover, I tell you, it's beyond the cover
,You may think you're seeing it all, but it's beyond the cover.
It's beyond the cover, I tell you, it's beyond the cover,
Leave it all to TIME and THOUGHT, then you'll unveil the cover.
It's beyond the cover, It's beyond what you see,
'double your eyes', and SEE THROUGH HIS', for its beyond the cover!
It's beyond the cover, it's beyond what we see.
Live not your life like a camera, life's beyond the cover. -TW™
The wordsmith™
(C) 2013.
12.3.13
DIE ANOTHER DAY
“Am too tired to fight, yet too learned to run. There’s no other day to die, but today”
These words rung severely in my head like a ‘school-over’ bell, as I engaged in, for the fourth time, what I term to be “The fight of my life”.
It is a long existing idea that man can live to “Die Another Day” but the pain of it today is that this concept is often mis-used than used. More confused a phrase than understood, more nowadays a defence on the lips of cowards.
Ian Fleming produced a 007 classic in 2002 titled “Die Another Day”.
“Pierce Brosnan the fictional James Bond was on a mission to North Korea, when he was betrayed after seemingly killing a rogue North-Korean colonel. He was captured and imprisoned. More than a year later, he was released as part of a prisoner exchange. His quest became to earn redemption, by finding his betrayer and killing a North-Korean agent he believes was involved in his torture… (Okay I know you're feeling the storyline, but Let's save the details *Smile*)
Before we move further, may I quickly make a note. "There was never a winner who didn’t want to win". It takes a conscious effort to make something out of life. There’s no other day to die but today, once again I reiterate.
The noble phrase “Die Another Day”, was made famous by Ian Fleming in his master class Hollywood story. One that taught pure heroism, not cowardice. Risk-taking, and not arms folding.
The biggest rist you can take, is not to take one! -Anonymous
ALL WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN, BUT NONE WANTS TO DIE. Little do we know that our being bereft of heaven is also borne out of not wanting to die. If you really want to go live in heaven, then the echoes of death will bring to you nothing but excitement. #Tough
The matter tabled today, is one of winning cum risk-taking. The extent of risk taken/ willing to take define of a truth the extent you want what you want. Put simply, your risk typifies the degree of your want.
Some want it so badly, they wish for it all day and all night, they wish so hard, yet they sit so flat.
Some want it so badly, they just want to try. Whether it works or not, to them will only remain news.
Some want it so badly, they’re willing to, and put their whole life on it, not minding what the result would turn out to be.
Yet, some are too scared to want it; they always want to play it safe, if wanting it will cost them a thing, then they’ll rather remain as they are.
Analysing carefully these classes of people, first I discovered, and this I call major:
*Everybody belongs somewhere in this grouping.
*Everybody wants something.
*Some will eventually get nothing.
I also discovered after much consideration that; those who were/are too careful about life and what people will say, were the once who made little or nothing out of it.
"Forget the risk, take the fall, if its what you want, then its worth it all". -Anonymous
Only those with a complete understanding of this sentence will die another day. Oh, I thought I told you only a winner dies another day, the loser dies there and then. Sometimes, even before the battle commences.
I thought of how simply this could be put without aggravating the existing mix-ups about who really dies another day (The quitter or risk-taker cum winner). I concluded it was of utmost importance that I stated or counselled that you; “Choose to die over it today, that you may live to die another day”
Its share cowardice to ride on the wings of pleasure at all times, sitting back all day, always wishing to take a step.
Amazingly, that heaven we so much love and wish to partake of (yet don't want to die), some saw, and the next we heard them say was the sentence;
‘TO DIE IS GAIN’ (Phil 1:21)#Deep. Obviously, if it’s worth the having, then it’s worth the risk.
“Death” in this piece may mean a whole lot to one and many. What it is you’re facing/not facing (shying away from) now is what defines in the long run, death to you.
The one quoted up there, goes by the name Saint Paul, and for him, death was as far as giving up the ghost for what he believed in. He and many others who plied his route, re-wrote within my heart, proving his worth by staking the risk for his faith and tanding out.
Enough of sitting back, you need to try something.
Enough of wishing, get up and ‘eat that frog’.
***consider this***
"Sell this life for the next and you win both of them. Sell the next life for this and you loose both of them"... Al-Hassan Al-Basri Rahmatullah (In both ways risky, but clearly, one is worth the price).
Take that calculated (not haphazard) risk, if you win, you’ll be happy you did. And if it goes the other way, you’ll be wiser to do it better on your next try.
To be fair to a few who have tried times without number. It's true, like me in the opening sentence of this piece, you might by now be too tired to fight (Try again), but please, you're too learned (Inspired) to run (quit). There's no better day to die (take the risk), but today.
This I share to stirr your thoughts, this I share to provoke your spirit in a positive direction. Hopefully, by the close of this piece, you can tell exactly where you stand, and what steps you’ll be taking thereafter.
Everything is a risk, from sleeping to waking up. I tell you, those who wouldn’t dare to take the risk of sleeping are those who will certainly ‘sleep’ sooner than they expected.
DARE TO DO SOMETHING TO MOVE YOU MILES, EVEN A STEP FORWARD!
For those who can say this, now let them say:
“Am too tired to fight, yet too learned to run. There’s no other day to die, but today” –TW™
“I’ll keep on, I’ll press on, I’ll try something, I’ll take risks and never be scared to die.
(And in the end) I’ll always die tomorrow; I’ll forever die another day!” #DEEP -TW™
Its The Wordsmith™.
These words rung severely in my head like a ‘school-over’ bell, as I engaged in, for the fourth time, what I term to be “The fight of my life”.
It is a long existing idea that man can live to “Die Another Day” but the pain of it today is that this concept is often mis-used than used. More confused a phrase than understood, more nowadays a defence on the lips of cowards.
Ian Fleming produced a 007 classic in 2002 titled “Die Another Day”.
“Pierce Brosnan the fictional James Bond was on a mission to North Korea, when he was betrayed after seemingly killing a rogue North-Korean colonel. He was captured and imprisoned. More than a year later, he was released as part of a prisoner exchange. His quest became to earn redemption, by finding his betrayer and killing a North-Korean agent he believes was involved in his torture… (Okay I know you're feeling the storyline, but Let's save the details *Smile*)
Before we move further, may I quickly make a note. "There was never a winner who didn’t want to win". It takes a conscious effort to make something out of life. There’s no other day to die but today, once again I reiterate.
The noble phrase “Die Another Day”, was made famous by Ian Fleming in his master class Hollywood story. One that taught pure heroism, not cowardice. Risk-taking, and not arms folding.
The biggest rist you can take, is not to take one! -Anonymous
ALL WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN, BUT NONE WANTS TO DIE. Little do we know that our being bereft of heaven is also borne out of not wanting to die. If you really want to go live in heaven, then the echoes of death will bring to you nothing but excitement. #Tough
The matter tabled today, is one of winning cum risk-taking. The extent of risk taken/ willing to take define of a truth the extent you want what you want. Put simply, your risk typifies the degree of your want.
Some want it so badly, they wish for it all day and all night, they wish so hard, yet they sit so flat.
Some want it so badly, they just want to try. Whether it works or not, to them will only remain news.
Some want it so badly, they’re willing to, and put their whole life on it, not minding what the result would turn out to be.
Yet, some are too scared to want it; they always want to play it safe, if wanting it will cost them a thing, then they’ll rather remain as they are.
Analysing carefully these classes of people, first I discovered, and this I call major:
*Everybody belongs somewhere in this grouping.
*Everybody wants something.
*Some will eventually get nothing.
I also discovered after much consideration that; those who were/are too careful about life and what people will say, were the once who made little or nothing out of it.
"Forget the risk, take the fall, if its what you want, then its worth it all". -Anonymous
Only those with a complete understanding of this sentence will die another day. Oh, I thought I told you only a winner dies another day, the loser dies there and then. Sometimes, even before the battle commences.
I thought of how simply this could be put without aggravating the existing mix-ups about who really dies another day (The quitter or risk-taker cum winner). I concluded it was of utmost importance that I stated or counselled that you; “Choose to die over it today, that you may live to die another day”
Its share cowardice to ride on the wings of pleasure at all times, sitting back all day, always wishing to take a step.
Amazingly, that heaven we so much love and wish to partake of (yet don't want to die), some saw, and the next we heard them say was the sentence;
‘TO DIE IS GAIN’ (Phil 1:21)#Deep. Obviously, if it’s worth the having, then it’s worth the risk.
“Death” in this piece may mean a whole lot to one and many. What it is you’re facing/not facing (shying away from) now is what defines in the long run, death to you.
The one quoted up there, goes by the name Saint Paul, and for him, death was as far as giving up the ghost for what he believed in. He and many others who plied his route, re-wrote within my heart, proving his worth by staking the risk for his faith and tanding out.
Enough of sitting back, you need to try something.
Enough of wishing, get up and ‘eat that frog’.
***consider this***
"Sell this life for the next and you win both of them. Sell the next life for this and you loose both of them"... Al-Hassan Al-Basri Rahmatullah (In both ways risky, but clearly, one is worth the price).
Take that calculated (not haphazard) risk, if you win, you’ll be happy you did. And if it goes the other way, you’ll be wiser to do it better on your next try.
To be fair to a few who have tried times without number. It's true, like me in the opening sentence of this piece, you might by now be too tired to fight (Try again), but please, you're too learned (Inspired) to run (quit). There's no better day to die (take the risk), but today.
This I share to stirr your thoughts, this I share to provoke your spirit in a positive direction. Hopefully, by the close of this piece, you can tell exactly where you stand, and what steps you’ll be taking thereafter.
Everything is a risk, from sleeping to waking up. I tell you, those who wouldn’t dare to take the risk of sleeping are those who will certainly ‘sleep’ sooner than they expected.
DARE TO DO SOMETHING TO MOVE YOU MILES, EVEN A STEP FORWARD!
For those who can say this, now let them say:
“Am too tired to fight, yet too learned to run. There’s no other day to die, but today” –TW™
“I’ll keep on, I’ll press on, I’ll try something, I’ll take risks and never be scared to die.
(And in the end) I’ll always die tomorrow; I’ll forever die another day!” #DEEP -TW™
Its The Wordsmith™.
11.3.13
How BIG Is Your Excuse?
How Big is Your Excuse
Until 1875, a thousand and one swimmers had cast their wide reaching gazes on the seemingly endless stretch of the English Channel and wished that they would be the first to swim across it. Everybody else used boats to travel across this massive water body. There was record to be set and but everybody seemed to look only at the often challenging tides and other creatures that lurked dangerously beneath the water body until Mathew Webb approached it with the kind of boldness with which a lion approaches a prey - with carefulness, boldness and determination and became the first man to swim across the English channel without any external support even in the scary face of so much difficulties. It wasn’t until he swam across it that everybody began to realize that they could have done it, had they tried. Today even twenty years olds take swimming across this channel as a regular exercise.
Do you hate your status quo? Do you hate the condition life has presented before you? But you are still busy dishing out excuses? Do you only see all the problems and not the springboard to your success?
Hamilton Naki was offered a job to be a gardener in the University of Cape Town. He had come from the humblest of backgrounds with little or no education to Cape Town. This was apartheid South Africa where the educated black people had not even got a voice not to mention a black male with no education at all. But nothing was going to stop this determined young man with a most amazing self-image and esteem. Soon this illiterate gardener had acquired enough mastery of the happenings around his surroundings that he could assist with the meanest of roles in the laboratory, from cleaning the cages where the animals are kept to anaesthetizing them. He kept observing and learning until he could assist and operate on the animals dissecting them with most expertly dexterity of a brilliant surgeon. Soon he rose to become the principal surgical assistant in the very laboratory where he had previously been employed as a gardener without any certificate, brilliantly undertaking research work that greatly enlarged the frontiers of medical knowledge in the aspect heart surgery and transplant and liver implantation until he could pass his knowledge on to younger doctors. This uneducated man who was employed as a casual gardener in a society that had no place for black people eventually worked so hard that he earned himself an Honorary Master’s degree from the University of Cape Town, a feat that previously near impossible and a great reputation.
Scarcely would any man read these lines that does not have better and greater opportunities and privilege than Hamilton Naki. The question is: what have we done with them. What have we done about them?
I have come across some people for want of a better phrase I refer to as excuse professionals. O! I may not be able to go to the gym, today is no so good a day. We just can’t bear any comparism with that brand, they are far too ahead. The reason why I am not performing well at my job is 'cause of my boss. I can never get good grades, my teacher is the cause. I can never be that rich no matter how much I tried. I am broke simply because of my husband... Spend just five minutes with some people and you'd be sure to get a hundred excuses why they can’t do this or that.
But then some of the people making these excuses may just be sincerely ignorant. Truth is no matter how good or interesting your excuse may be, it won’t pay the bills, no matter how sincere or ignorant you may be, people pay for results, and until you produce the desired results, you may as well decide not to wake up that day.
Oh!, you could have an ocean of excuses why you would never be successful, why you may never be rich, why you may not be able to bear any comparism with the man or woman you are competing with but the truth as someone rightly put it is that if we fail to dream, then we would spend our entire lifetime helping other people to build their dreams. Get up take responsibility, go to work and challenge your status. See if things would not change.
Time is gone and is no more existent when the African child will sit idle bemoaning his fate, blaming it on the inability of his government to provide good quality education when he has the world to compete with in a jet age. Past and gone is the time when a graduate from Pakistan would heap a load of regret on his Alma Mata for competition with an American or British over a job in Dubai and losing it, just because he didn’t enough to clench it. Until anyone strives consistently for mastery and pays the price, nothing may change.
If you don’t like where you are, then move you are not a stone. You have the right to be angry. But make sure you are angry enough to challenge your situation. Then stand up and do something constructive. Continue doing it until something changes. Pay the price for the change and see if things will not change.
Credits: Ifeanyi Igbokwe (Marvin Zulu).
Motivational Speaker/ Life Coach.
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Highly Recommended.-TW™
5.3.13
MegaNet Reschedules Chat -(This Is Obviously A Scam)
I remember vividly some of MegaNet's advocates by the names "Oscar Preye and Tope Alabi" reported via comments made on my blog, that they were at the venue of MegaNet's supposed chat last wednesday at the stated venue in Unilag? They even claimed they secured the 'opportunity' (Job).
Now these criminals will have to explain to Nigerians their outfit's latest stand.
Dear readers the bellow is MegaNet Resource Ltd's notice of a reschedule. Now who's fooling who?
Dear Applicant,
Your recent chat invitation with the HRM of MegaNet Resources Limited has been reschedule to 5th March 2013 (Tuesday) as a result of the questions and answers that arouse from the invited applicant that was selected for a CHAT with the HRM in other to verify the credibility of the company/job due to the FACT that a N2, 200 (Medical Fee) was imposed on them.
We are Human Resources Consulting Organization with RC 1523321. Our head office is located at 26, Church Rd, Ikorodu Lagos State. We recruits for banks and Industries Nation Wide, but right now we are recruiting for Unilever Nigeria Plc.
The reason why the N2, 200 Medical fee was impose on you is for a Medical Test that is compulsory we carried out on every qualified Applicant we are to post to Unilever Nigeria Plc. and the money can’t be paid at the venue because Unilever do send an investigative panel to monitor the recruitment exercise and we wouldn't like a situation whereby they will think we are extorting money from applicant. The purpose of this chat is to screen the original copy of your credentials before being posted.
Under normal circumstances, you are suppose to be given a written test then interview follows, but due to urgency of request of staff from Unilever Nigeria Plc we couldn’t achieve this that is why your CV/NYSC certificate was randomly screen regionally and invitation was sent to qualified 40 applicant Nation Wide knowing full well as a Nigeria Graduate you will be able to cope since an in house training will be giving to you.
Therefore, if you are one of those that was selected I will advise you to pay your medical fee and follow all instruction been giving to you on the previous invitation letter to enable us to complete the recruitment process. It’s for your good and ours.
Yours Faithfully,
Dorcas Bode
Sec.
***Email closed***
Kayode, Oscar Preye, Tope Alabi, Dorcas Bode et.al, Nigerians await your new story
Now these criminals will have to explain to Nigerians their outfit's latest stand.
Dear readers the bellow is MegaNet Resource Ltd's notice of a reschedule. Now who's fooling who?
Dear Applicant,
Your recent chat invitation with the HRM of MegaNet Resources Limited has been reschedule to 5th March 2013 (Tuesday) as a result of the questions and answers that arouse from the invited applicant that was selected for a CHAT with the HRM in other to verify the credibility of the company/job due to the FACT that a N2, 200 (Medical Fee) was imposed on them.
We are Human Resources Consulting Organization with RC 1523321. Our head office is located at 26, Church Rd, Ikorodu Lagos State. We recruits for banks and Industries Nation Wide, but right now we are recruiting for Unilever Nigeria Plc.
The reason why the N2, 200 Medical fee was impose on you is for a Medical Test that is compulsory we carried out on every qualified Applicant we are to post to Unilever Nigeria Plc. and the money can’t be paid at the venue because Unilever do send an investigative panel to monitor the recruitment exercise and we wouldn't like a situation whereby they will think we are extorting money from applicant. The purpose of this chat is to screen the original copy of your credentials before being posted.
Under normal circumstances, you are suppose to be given a written test then interview follows, but due to urgency of request of staff from Unilever Nigeria Plc we couldn’t achieve this that is why your CV/NYSC certificate was randomly screen regionally and invitation was sent to qualified 40 applicant Nation Wide knowing full well as a Nigeria Graduate you will be able to cope since an in house training will be giving to you.
Therefore, if you are one of those that was selected I will advise you to pay your medical fee and follow all instruction been giving to you on the previous invitation letter to enable us to complete the recruitment process. It’s for your good and ours.
Yours Faithfully,
Dorcas Bode
Sec.
***Email closed***
Kayode, Oscar Preye, Tope Alabi, Dorcas Bode et.al, Nigerians await your new story
4.3.13
That (il)legal Tender.
"A huge number of humans have their Truth-Reserve/account either fat or static. We rarely withdraw nor spend from it, and will rather run life's transactions with that (il)legal tender, LIES". -TW™
Its not so amazing today how accepted, tolerated, and infact enjoyed (in the actual sense) lies are. Little wonder I chose to coin it as "(il)legal Tender". Illegal tender in every sense of it, yet legal tender judging by the widespread acceptance and employment of it.
Why Account?
Account owing to the fact that we know the truth, identify it, gather it, but yet fail to employ it, resulting to a mere build up (Account/Reserve) in our hearts, while refusing to spend/transact with it.
Note: Truth spent yields even more dividends that truth stored.
Why Lie?
The "cover my/your arse" mentality/syndrome has taken the good-life over from us, I wonder why on God's earth we left our arses open in the first place, and who told us lies truly covers anyone's arse.
Lies don't cover arses, lies merely blindfolds people from seen the exposed arse. And most assuredly someday, the blindfold will weaken out and drop off, and then the long open arse and the many fleas that would have habit it will be seen in its very deplorable condition.
Spend The Truth:
Spend the truth, in doing, you get more profitable returns and this leaves your arse well covered, I emphasize "COVERED" in the real sense of it.
Have I any need to emphasize the moral and/or spiritual angle to these? No, its not my calling to sermonize you on this, the Holy Bible, Holy Koran and other spiritual books have the importance, laws and gains of righteousness, sincerity and truthfulness clearly spelt out in them, not forgetting the doom that awaits an unrepentant liar.
But I admonish you and in so doing, to myself too;
"Fear not the one who can destroy the body and not the spirit, but the one who can condemn/destroy both the body and the spirit to eternal damnation." Fear God!
The choice is ours, to continue to carry out life transactions with the (il)legal tender (LIES) or turn a new leaf by sharing, 'spending' and practicing/living TRUTH, and thereby making the world a better place for you and for me.
Cc:
Leaders (Political, Spiritual and Traditional)
Followers (Political, Spiritual and General)
Bosses and Subordinates (Work place)
Marketers and Traders (Businessmen and women)
The Family (Father, Mother, Children and Extended)
He that sees no harm/Sin in telling or sponsoring lies.
He that sees lies as a means of "Covering Arses"
It’s The Wordsmith™.
Its not so amazing today how accepted, tolerated, and infact enjoyed (in the actual sense) lies are. Little wonder I chose to coin it as "(il)legal Tender". Illegal tender in every sense of it, yet legal tender judging by the widespread acceptance and employment of it.
Why Account?
Account owing to the fact that we know the truth, identify it, gather it, but yet fail to employ it, resulting to a mere build up (Account/Reserve) in our hearts, while refusing to spend/transact with it.
Note: Truth spent yields even more dividends that truth stored.
Why Lie?
The "cover my/your arse" mentality/syndrome has taken the good-life over from us, I wonder why on God's earth we left our arses open in the first place, and who told us lies truly covers anyone's arse.
Lies don't cover arses, lies merely blindfolds people from seen the exposed arse. And most assuredly someday, the blindfold will weaken out and drop off, and then the long open arse and the many fleas that would have habit it will be seen in its very deplorable condition.
Spend The Truth:
Spend the truth, in doing, you get more profitable returns and this leaves your arse well covered, I emphasize "COVERED" in the real sense of it.
Have I any need to emphasize the moral and/or spiritual angle to these? No, its not my calling to sermonize you on this, the Holy Bible, Holy Koran and other spiritual books have the importance, laws and gains of righteousness, sincerity and truthfulness clearly spelt out in them, not forgetting the doom that awaits an unrepentant liar.
But I admonish you and in so doing, to myself too;
"Fear not the one who can destroy the body and not the spirit, but the one who can condemn/destroy both the body and the spirit to eternal damnation." Fear God!
The choice is ours, to continue to carry out life transactions with the (il)legal tender (LIES) or turn a new leaf by sharing, 'spending' and practicing/living TRUTH, and thereby making the world a better place for you and for me.
Cc:
Leaders (Political, Spiritual and Traditional)
Followers (Political, Spiritual and General)
Bosses and Subordinates (Work place)
Marketers and Traders (Businessmen and women)
The Family (Father, Mother, Children and Extended)
He that sees no harm/Sin in telling or sponsoring lies.
He that sees lies as a means of "Covering Arses"
It’s The Wordsmith™.
27.2.13
WHEN TO SAY WHAT
Everybody has something they want/don’t want to hear in every different situation. There are words meant for particular purposes and situations, and not every word can be said at a particular time.
It is a true statement of fact that love and care cannot be perfected without words, but it’s far better to keep quiet than to speak inappropriate words to a person in a condition.
Without much ado, we’ll take some examples to start with.
***What do you say to a person who has just lost something valuable/precious?
*Don't dare say...
-"It just wasn't meant to be." It's easy to be philosophical when it's not happening to you.
-"Are you going to try again?" When someone's grieving over a loss, he/she doesn't really want to think about another just yet.
-"At least you know you can get another!" Right, but he/she also knows they can lose it again. Not something they want to be reminded of.
*Do say...
-"I'm so sorry to hear about what happened."
-"I'm here if you feel like talking about it."
-"Want to get something done? Can I run errands for you? I'd like to help in any way I can."
***When Someone Loses a Relationship
Losing a relationship for whatever reason is something heavy enough to down a person.
Emotions run high when a relationship breaks up, and victims need someone who can help deal with their feelings.
*Don't dare say...
-"Was he/she cheating?" Never press for details -- it's none of your business unless your friend needs to vent.
-"Did you think about how this will affect you in the long run?" Yes, your friend has probably thought about this far more than you can imagine.
-"I’ve experienced this times without number, this can really be hurting, I almost drank detol during my last experience, and …..bla bla bla." Your story is not relevant -- unless your friend explicitly asks for your memories on this subject.
*Do say...
-"I just called to see how you're doing and to tell you I'm sorry that you've been going through such a difficult time."
-"How are you holding up? Let me know if you'd like to meet for some drink or just go to the movies (or something you know they'll love)."
-"You're going to get through this."
***When Someone Says Something Hurtful to You in a Discussion
If you're going through a crisis, and someone makes a remark you find inappropriate, you have every right to cut the encounter short.
But…
*Don’t dare say…
-“Are you blind, deaf or too retarded to realize am hurting or that your words hurt?” Such responses only multiply your pain in exponents.
-“Do you realize you’re talking to a living thing, a human being?” such responses will only succeed in prolonging the undesirable discussion.
Then what do I say? (Guess you’re asking already)
* Say something like, "Thanks for your concern," and then change the subject. Or, if you're comfortable being more direct, say, "I'm sorry, I don't really feel like talking about this."
-“Some minutes please” excuse yourself unsuspectingly from that environment.
Silence they say is the best answer for a fool, but I tell you, you’ll be better off allowing the second party presume this themselves than you saying the wrong words at the wrong time, "calling them a fool", something you thought you were avoiding by speaking up.
I’ll rest on this at this time, until some other times; we really cannot exhaust possible responses to situations. It is left to us all to be wise and careful with what we say and when.
That popular saying “Put yourself in my shoes” is one of the world’s funniest and most vague expressions, for we really cannot put ourselves in anyone’s shoes, once it’s not happening to you, it’s not happening to you.
The second like it is; “I know what you’re going through”. More than any other, this sentence makes me laugh. No matter how many times you have experienced what the second party is presently experiencing, you still don’t know what they are going through. I’ll explain.
Every individual is individual and special with their responses and feelings towards certain situations. The same circumstances do not generate exactly the same feelings, emotions and responses from a sample of people.
However, even in very rare situations when all these appear to remain constantly similar in a tested sample of people, the duration of such feelings of joy/pain will never be the same.
Hence, you hardly can put yourself in anyone’s shoes, nor do you know exactly what they are going through. At best, just say “I think I have an idea of what you’re experiencing”.
Please Note: There’s no perfection in this, you can only get better.
The writer writes not as one who has attained, but one who is still pressing towards the mark. We all fall short of these things and many more, I just hope this helps somebody. Thanks.
It’s The Wordsmith™.
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