KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, SO GO ON AND EDUCATE YOURSELF, YOU DESERVE IT...

Knowledge is power, and freedom.....!!!

And traditionally, worldwide those in power, whether wielding religious; traditional; political; governmental; institutional; social or economic power, have almost ALWAYS sought to keep the masses ignorant and in their "places". So that they can CONTINUE to wield the instruments of power and maintain the great socio-economic advantages they have accrued for themselves, shikena!!! I

SO PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELVES EVERYONE. IT'S A SOLEMN DUTY YOU OWE TO YOURSELVES FIRST AND THEN TO ALL THOSE AROUND YOU. AND I FEEL IT IS EVER SO IMPERATIVE IN THE NIGERIA OF TODAY!!

Pick up a BOOK; read, assimilate, ponder and reason. Discuss weighty matters with experts and scholars of the field. Read theirs and other articles, debate, LEARN and then let your reasoning come to the fore. Take in only what is GOOD, BENEFICIAL, INFORMATIVE AND ENLIGHTENING. Eschew ignorance, religious superstition, blind prejudice and the crowd mentality.

And for those of us who have any faith, please let's also STUDY our holy books PROPERLY and then ask for enlightenment and understanding from our Creator where there is any confusion or unclarity, and even before... Let's also learn about the HISTORY AND EVOLUTION of our personal religious beliefs, from their inception to their current day practices and PONDER on whether we are truly and actually following the ORIGINAL AND GOOD teachings the founders of the religions wanted. that for me is the bottom line; the original GOOD plans, intentions and practices.


AND I HAVE NO HESITATION IN EXPECTING AND ASKING PEOPLE TO QUESTION AND ABANDON ANY BAD PRACTICES, BELIEFS AND TEACHINGS from their religions as guided by their personal consciences and current day laws!!! This I believe will certainly help create a better society for all of us to live in. Because when we know better, WE DO BETTER.

So go on my friends, seek, learn, do and then teach and together we can actually make this world a better place. At least our own little corner of it will be a little brighter, a little happier, a little kinder, a little calmer, a little nicer... And that's good enough for me, I don't know about you???

For Vivian Iguyovwe-Eyareya, happy birthday dear -1st of August 2013

By Christie Nonyelum Akumabor 31/07/13

Just a small fraction of my wide and varied book collection

We all fit together, the good the bad the ugly and even the insane...

We all fit together, yep we sure do (she smiles).

We all somehow fit together,

Even though I know not how, but I sure know He does...

Even when we don't want to, we somehow actually do.

And I should know
Cos God has certainly squeezed me into some reeeeeeally tight corners,
Men, I tell you no lies!!!

We all fit together; the good, the bad, the ugly and yep even the insane!!!

We all fit together, like night follows day.

Like light and darkness, like the sun and the moon.

Like good and evil, like ourselves and our very own shadows,

Like men and women even, [hey no fighting you shildrenses].

We all fit together like the tiles in a beautiful wall mosaic,

Like one big massive WORLD-SIZED jigsaw puzzle...

Except I believe only our Creator can look at the entire jigsaw puzzle from above,

And know exactly where in the picture each piece of the puzzle fits.

Cos he is the Artiste, the Designer and Master-Planner per excellence!

He knows our tomorrows before they've even begun!

We all fit together, cos that's how  twas meant to be,

Right from the very beginning.

And hey, I'm not talking about the beginnings of our lives here on earth,

I'm talking about from the beginning of creation, whenever that was,

If any of us can ever fathom that far back, cos I know I sure can't.

But that doesn't bother me in the least now.

Cos I've finally realised that my part in this crazy world
 Is just to show up and do my own little bit, play my own little part.

I leave the rest of the planning of this whole crazy shenanigan,

To our, to my very own able Oga@deTop jare.

Cos He knows how matters are, He knows just how he arranged stuff..

And anything we want do other than our own part, 
Well that's just "work no pay", as we say in Naija.

How often has God taken the unwanted,

Sometimes even very painful parts of our lives,
And created beauty beyond our [limited] belief.

Only he can give us joy for ashes, endless smiles for our tears.

So that's how come I now know we ALL fit together perfectly.

Cos God created in us a desire for connection and association.

We are born into families, communities and societies,

In which we need to live and thrive.

Man has been described as a social animal, ain't that so?

We didn't just drop down from the sky like raindrops.

Neither were we dispersed on the wind like pollinated seeds,

Left to struggle and strive wherever they land and sometimes just not even survive!

Depending on where their fortunes or the winds carried and deposit them.

Thus we all fit together, cos we were designed and created that way.

We often don't know it, because so many of us don't even know ourselves properly yet!

Much less the others around us, the others with whom we're designed to fit exactly with.

But that still doesn't change the bare-faced truth,

That we are all designed to fit together, somehow, someway, someday...

Not with everyone, that would be just too foolish to contemplate,

But with most in our immediate families, friendship groupings,
Local communities, societies and eventually nations.

And if we try really hard and it still just doesn't seem to work,

Perhaps we just need to think outside the box just a little bit, 

Maybe we need to turn ourselves around and look about us,
Or perhaps we simply just need to move on,
And keep going on, not stopping,

Till we find our own little corner of the world, our very own place!

Till we find where exactly we fit into the FINISHED big picture.
Of this multi-faceted, multi-billion pieced, world-sized jigsaw I call LIFE...

So do try and have a nice life all my dear friends,
In your very own little corner of the world, cheers..

 

By Christie Nonye Akumabor 11/07/13

Like the tiles in a beautiful mosaic, only when they fit together
do they make such a beautiful picture.

And when we fit together perfectly, love then grows...