The World As it Spins

Yes? No? A few weeks back Caleb asked me if I've heard the songs Are You What You Want To Be? and Ask Yourself by Foster The People. The way he put it appeared to me like: Are You What You Want To Be? Ask Yourself. This sent me on a thoughtful journey. Sure I want to be a lot of things, but am I there yet? Saying I'm what I want to be will mean this is the life I've been dreaming of and waiting for, and this is not it. However an important question to ask is "Am I on track to becoming what I want to be?" Becoming successful is a journey, hence you may not be what you dream of being but hell yes you could be well on track to being it. Any difference between 'what' and 'who' you are? Well, who you are remains largely constant till you die (this is your personality). What you are depends on external factors, and require hard work + good fortune to become. What you are is your station in life at a particular time. So are you where you want to be o

This year I have learnt to patiently wait for what belongs to me to come to me. I finished school late last year and I was expecting to go for my mandatory national service in March, but due to some unknown reasons (elections maybe) the service time was shifted to May. After a gruelling 5 month wait registration for the May batch opened (it opened in April). With plenty joy and optimism I ran to go and register, only to be hit back with an error message saying my name was not in the NYSC database. What the hell?!!!  Why me? Ok, it was not just me in the predicament, it happened that due to the typical Nigerian administrative sloppiness, our department in school didn't submit our names to the university council for approval for NYSC on time. This meant that we'd have to wait for the next batch. And when was the next batch? Nobody knew. It is one thing to wait for something when you know when it's coming and it's different ball game when you are waiting for something th

In commemoration of the coming World Environment Day, here's an article by 'Tolu Ajobiewe Climate Change: A Nigerian Narrative Writers, story tellers, singers, researchers and analysts have provided in recent times tales and accounts of climate change, bearing and bringing forward facts, assumptions, opinions, predictions and projections of the unseen tomorrow as much as climate change is concerned. This narrative however, draws from the stream of knowledge and pool of facts provided hitherto. But before proceeding with my tale on climate change: the Nigerian perspective, allow me woo you with these descriptions. Climate change refers to an increase in average global temperatures. Wikipedia described climate change as a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e. decades to millions of years). In other words, climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time va

I'm also an artist! So yesterday I was feeling a burst of creativity, I got my pc pulled out out Adobe FW and this is what came out. He he he I feel proud to share this with y'all. Before I go. We all know what Easter is all about? Right? Uh No? OK here goes. This weekend we commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus. Who died to give us life. 

The parable narrated hereafter is based on true events which happened sometime one afternoon somewhere in Central Nigeria. A lot of Maggi and Pepper has been added for the edification and education of your soul on some burning Nigerian issues. Note: All the children in my street are under my jurisdiction to correct, discipline and guide along the path of glory. It happened that this afternoon as I was standing at the threshold of my father's house a group of young lads came to me. I noticed that two of them were contesting the ownership of a red rope. I looked at them with compassion as I asked "What is the bone of contention?" "This rope belongs to my family, he wants to take it" said a chap with prominent front teeth like mine. "Yes but he destroyed my torch so it's only fair that I posses this rope" said his contestant. Both still held tightly to the rope. I must admit that both had come to buy something from me :-D As soon as we were

Nothing good comes easy. True? Here are my thoughts on this issue. I believe this statement has been misinterpreted a lot and has been used to enslave a lot of people. Let us get this clear: Suffering is not hard work. People have been made to suffer and have been made to think that if they had it any easier nothing good will come out of it. My grouse is not that people suffer; my beef is the justification of the needless suffering by people in high places. People even have this saying that anything you do not suffer for you do not appreciate. True that, but haba there are a lot of things we ought to take for granted for example good roads, water, cheap internet and stress free education. Trekking the length of a football pitch to get water is suffering that doesn’t result in any public good, being forced to cram something you were not taught just to pass is not good suffering, the bureaucratic bottlenecks you go through to get things done is suffering that profits no one. It