Up Close and Personal – 16102024

There are two moments in everyone’s life when your thoughts or preferences do not matter: at conception and at death.

Regarding the former, you had no say in your gender, race, tribe, family, or religion. You were born into your family, religion, or nation without any contribution from you.

It amazes me, then, that we discriminate based on gender, tribe, or religion when we could have been born into someone else’s family, tribe, or religion.

We stereotype and label certain tribes when it could just as easily have been us. We build unnecessary walls and barriers due to tribal or religious sentiments. Many wars have been sparked by tribal conflicts, and entire nations have been destroyed due to religious tensions.

The same color of blood flows in all our veins, yet we still consider some superior to others. And yet, at death, our bodies will undergo the same process of decomposition, regardless of color or background.

So, let us focus less on the physical attributes, religious beliefs, or tribal origins of others and more on the person within.

Take care, and have a wonderful day.

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Daily Reflection – 14102024

The highest form of living is to live as though dead, and to die as though living.

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Daily Reflection – 11102024

The spirit can only function as much as the body can carry, don’t run out of fuel before you reach your destination.

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Daily Reflection – 10102024

If you only see things as either white or black, you will have a clouded view of life.

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Up Close and Personal – 09102024

Up Close and Personal – 09/10/2024

There was a time I would go to the Computer Department at OAU and pay to check my email, hoping for an important message. It was a period when owning a desktop computer was a luxury, let alone having one at home. We were learning COBOL and FORTRAN in theory but had no access to computers to practice.

Most of our communication came through physical letters delivered to departmental mailboxes, which could take up to four weeks to reach the recipient. Though it sounds absurd now, our lives were less complicated. There were hardly any emergencies that demanded the instant responses we expect today, especially when chatting online. So, what changed?

Our world is now so “gadgetized” that we feel incomplete without a phone or some sort of device. Despite countless ways to stay connected, we seem more disconnected than ever.

I remember the routine trips to the post office to collect letters, and the sting of losing my P.O. Box at Ikeja because I didn’t renew the annual fee in time. While mailboxes are still used in some parts of the world, for many of us, they are distant memories.

In some ways, I miss those simpler days, days spent reading novels like James Hadley Chase, Pacesetters, Harold Robbins, Sidney Sheldon, and Robert Ludlum, or watching TV shows that began at 4pm and ended at 11pm. Our distractions were fewer, but our moments felt richer.

I miss those times of fewer distractions. What about you? What’s your story, and what do you miss?

Take care, and have a wonderful day.

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Daily Reflection – 08102024

You cannot become great by trying to pull great people down, but by paying the price for greatness.

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Daily Reflection – 07102024

You are not alone in dealing with the unfairness of life, others have and will still have their fair share.

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Daily Reflection – 07102024

You are not alone in dealing with the unfairness of life, others have and will still have their fair share.

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Daily Reflection – 07102024

You are not alone in dealing with the unfairness of life, others have and will still have their fair share.

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Daily Reflection – 04102024

Almost in all matters, lead with your head and less with your emotions.

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