The New Normal

Do the killings, and bombings, sound normal? Are they becoming less strange and more ‘usual’? Will you say you have gotten used to the bad news?

You know, I wonder sometimes if bad news is still tagged ‘bad news’ or if it's now one of those things.

Speak. Out.

 "Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes"   - Maggie Khun

There are times in life that silence does not get you the answer you would like it to. Silence is a cold storm of memory and thoughts that can chill you to the bone, and sometimes you’re lucky enough that people feel the cold and know there's something very wrong.

Sometimes, however, silence and chill just are not enough.

Sometimes you need fire.

The Good Fight

"Sometimes you have to be strong for yourself... Always fight, until you can’t anymore, and then be fought for."

Recently I was pushed by someone to get off my butt and go about to do good work again. It's why you've been seeing articles regularly on the blog again  (**Hides Face**)

I had been trying to live a simple life. Just me, myself and I. No worries, no troubles, no stress. It didn't last long. It's not the person I am, I guess. It seems I'm more like peppered fire than a calm scented breeze.

The Future

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?”   

- Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

Countless years have since past as we've heard it chorused; In the classrooms, In the streets, In the churches - "Children are the future", "The youth are the leaders of tomorrow".

But.... the youth have now gotten old. Some got so old that their time came and they have even passed away. Yet the same people who have lead and governed for 30 - 50 years are still leading and governing today. With the trend we're on, it seems we go further and further in the past to drudge up leaders from regiments and councils of old to take the reigns of power.

Are we so incapable, we "youth", of taking control of our own lives? Our present? Our very futures? Will we stamp down our heritage? Have we young lions forgotten how to roar? Meant to be eagles, but unable to soar. 

There Was A Time....

There was a time when I was younger I had believed I was the smartest person in Nigeria.... or at least the most prolific in the English Language. I had been surrounded by a lot of people in the urban area that time, and had just recently returned from the United States.

I thought I was the bomb. A genius maybe. Ok, maybe I didn't have a secret basement laboratory to chase my older sister(s) out of, or a huge giant sized (hypertrophied) brain bobbing up and down everywhere I went, or even some kind of red and gold metal semi-robotic suit.

I, just like many of you, felt on top of the world then. I was unstoppable. I was still high on dreams....

'High' Society

The other day I was going up to my room in the morning and I passed by two 100 level boys who were discussing how to increase the amount of business they could give and get for cocaine. "If you want to sell Crack you have to ask him to extend the period....." and blah blah blah. I didn't hear the rest. Didn't want to because;

1. I was on a schedule and had things I wanted to do.

2. It actually really did NOT concern me.
3. Hearing this kind of stufff is the kind if thing that gets you involved in annoying unfair situations.

There's a guy I know in 200 level. Don't know his department or his name - if I did I still wouldn't tell you :P . He used to be healthy and full of life - to an extent at least, when he had started out in 100 level. As of recent since he entered 200 level he has gone ragged.

The fault in your stars

The fault in your stars

By Damilola Adewolu

Almost everyone is interested in music nowadays. A huge problem is the kind of music that is out there, most of it is very disturbing and brings a lot to mind. I will take the lyrics of just one popular song pumped  through cylindrical tubes into the mental faculties of a lot of young people today and help you see the fault in that which you appraise as the best and all time favourite song.

We will look at a rap song heavily influenced by deep bass beats carefully orchestrated In a pattern to leave the head of the passive  minded swaying from side to side. Yeah the new banger "love with the coco".

Mature Nonsense - Lyrics

 

I've decided to attack some nonsense in our society with my blog. Todays' article deals with the ridiculousness of some of the most silly song lyrics to ever run over my ear.

Iyanya - "from the couch to the bed, from the bed to the bedroom"

"She carry front, she carry back;she too package.. I can't leave her. Is one of the reason I can't leave... Am loving Uuuu eeh "

D'prince - "Take banana till you go yo"