Hello everybody! Eku deede iwoyi o!
I
read this article some time ago and thought it would be useful for you and me.
150
years from now, none of us reading this post today will be alive. 70 percent to
100 percent of everything we are fighting over right now will be totally
forgotten. Underline the word, TOTALLY.
If we
go back memory lane to 150 years before us, that will be 1873, none of those
that carried the world on their heads then are alive today. Almost all of us
reading this will find it difficult to picture anybody's face of that era.
Pause
for a while and imagine how some of them betrayed their relatives and sold them
as slaves for a piece of mirror. Some killed family members just for a piece of
land or tubers of yam or cowries or for a pinch of salt. Where is the yam,
cowries, mirror, or salt that they were using to brag? It may sound funny to us
now, but that is how silly we humans are sometimes, especially when it comes to
power or trying to be relevant.
I
remember those days in my secondary school, how some people fought and did so
many unimaginable things just to have their names shortlisted among those to be
made school Prefects. Ordinary school Prefects o! or because of a boyfriend or girlfriend.
It is just a few years since I left secondary school, nobody in that school now remembers that I even schooled there despite my popularity then. Now,
imagine what happens after 150 years?
Even
when you claim the internet age will preserve your memory, take Michael Jackson
as an example. Michael Jackson died in 2009, that was just 14 years ago.
Imagine the influence Michael Jackson had all over the world when he was alive.
Gosh, he was like a god. How many young people of today remember him with awe,
that is if they even know him? In 150 years to come, his name, when mentioned,
will not ring any bell to a lot of people. This is even because he was popular,
imagine the majority of people who will never be known worldwide like him?
Let
us take life easy, nobody will get out of this world alive. . . The land you
are fighting and ready to kill for, somebody left that land, the person is
dead, rotten, and forgotten. That will also be your fate. In 150 years to come,
none of the vehicles or phones we are using today to brag will be relevant.
Biko, take life easy!
Let love lead. Be genuinely happy for each other. No malice, no backbiting. No jealousy. No comparison. It is not a competition. At the end of the day, we all have the same destiny in the grave. It is just a question of who gets there first, but surely we will all go there.
We celebrate
those who were born in June. The journey continues! And yours is truly special.
Happy birthday!
Eric
O. Thompson
YAJ.
