Be what you seek in your partner. You seek love, be loving. You seek kindness, be kind. You seek happiness, be happy. You seek piety, be pious. You seek virtue, be virtuous. You seek respect, be respectful. You seek ruthfulness, be ruthful. You seek honesty, be honest. You seek peace, be peaceful. And if you know not what to be, be human.
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Nigeria is a mirage – harboring a people who want to harvest yams, but aggressively cultivate rice.
Day-in day-out, reality is being strangled and irresponsibility is the order of the day. All for survival, the elders burnt their libraries.
We consistently lie to ourselves, so long as it soothes our narrative. We care less, so long as it doesn't hurt us, even if it hurts thousands.
We idolize insane values but want a sane clime – devaluing diligence for ineptness.
Now, ill-cultured gnomes dwell in different homes, and every home wants a society to call home.
Like the art of pointillism where several dots are connected to form an image – so is how the acts and decisions we make as a people make the society we dwell.
The connected dots of the old day are the ripple outcome of the image of the new day we sober about.
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History was distorted all for their cruelly selfish gains. Long since, precolonial era, Black had been civilized and highly educated in virtually all sphere of knowledge. Mental Enslavement was the deadliest weapon they used in strangling the Blackman to make him feel like a lesser and hollow human. This generational jinx is deeper than words – Black sees fellow Black as evil. Black kills Black. Black sees all that belongs to Black as filth. Black can never grow Black until he gets validation from the people of the other color. No land will ever grow without seeking the knowledge of her roots, her history. And the remedy to crumble these woes lies in the unity of Africans.
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Oftentimes, we walk on Mother Earth like we own time and believe not that death is real until we lose a loved one to its cold hands. That the next soul will meet the next sec is a promise never made to no soul.
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From the moment you open your mouth, you begin to birth a tale that would either make or mar you. A lot happens when the mouth opens.
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Long since, I have always had a clear and deep belief that, for us to truly grow as Nigerians and Africans – we must adopt the Naijacentric and Afrocentric approach respectively to grow our own. It is a different world here. It is a different world there. Different people. Different problems. Different unique solutions. Different cultures. Different beliefs. Different ideologies. Africans need to unshackle selves from the generational jinx of always seeking validation from the West to get things done rightly, and seeing selves as inferior beings. We are bold, beautiful and some of the most intelligent humans in the world. We must crumble their ideological warfares (Mental Enslavement) that had enfeebled and distorted our state of being since time immemorial. We are more than enough to grow our lands to be enough.
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As one grows older, it is gravely vital to be consciously selective in the set of humans you accept as friends or cherish dearly in your small ephemeral circle – and forget not to fervently beseech The Supreme Being for His guidance, as He is the only one that sees the unseen. Same body, different soul. Pretty face, ugly heart. In your presence, he means well. In your absence, he could drown you in well. To your face, she shows love. Behind you, she hates you live. Unfortunately, unfortunate beings dwell on Mother Earth. Be discerning – it can save you by a nose.
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The smilers, the unseen sufferers. Every soul should endeavor to make kindness a habit, unconditional, without exempting the happy faces – for sometimes, the smilers and kind hearts you adore, have got ocean of tears in their eyes only they could see even while they smile.
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From the moment I became an adult, I realized that the bitterest thing of all has never been gall, but truth. It is so sour from the mouth, unpleasing to the ears, obnoxious to the eyes and unsoothing to the heart. A grasp and use of it, is the cheapest antidote to the woes that befall personal, family and societal development.
Whilst, lies, have always been a beauty to all - So sweet from the mouth, pleasing to the ears, gorgeous to the eyes and calming to the heart. As long as it satisfies one's desires, nothing beats its presence. Like the wildfire, lies move. It beclouds the sanity of many. It blinds the eyes. It cripples the mind. It exacerbates the existence of humanity. No self, family, any form of relationship or society built with lies ever grows.
Prettily, the former always have a way it prevails over the latter with time.
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And the secs, mins, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades keep passing by. As they pass by, the pages keep flipping, signaling how the time of the book of life crawls to the end. Someday, the last tick of time will halt. That day, the body and soul know not.
The birthday – life's enigma of the first tick of time, and a signal to the last tick of time.
Happy birthday, Legendary Ali Burself.
May Allah grant you a blissful long life with His aeonian blessings and mercy.
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It's quite saddening and ludicrous that many homes have been a grave influence to the chaotic lifestyle of their children. Some children never felt love and kindness while growing up.
The slaps, bangs and shouts of their fathers on their mothers were the only ringtones they understood as toddlers and they grew to embrace such acts as a healthy norm.
The kind of fruits the society eats lies in the kind of seeds planted in all homes.
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In the pursuit for greatness, time keeps ticking. And the tick waits not, even while we wait. Sometimes the tossed coin favors one. Other times, it favors not.
When time favors you, be grateful. When it favors you not, be patient. The degree of cruelty revolving around the world lies in the degree of ingratitude and impatience of man.
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