The elections are fast approaching. And first of all, I think I need to apologize for getting a bit weary in reminding you guys about these things, and I'm sorry for dragging you away from Facebook to this forum. I know some of you are glued to Facebook, but the truth is that this platform gives me much more resources to play with.
Now some of you may ask, why do I do what I do? Or what do I hope to gain from it?
Is he trying to get the attention of the Government so that they can settle him? Or is it that he doesn't have better things to do with his time?
Well, let me first of all make it clear, if I haven't done it adequately enough with my previous notes on Facebook, that I do not share the same definition of success that most people seem to have in our country these days.
For me, finding a reasonable financial value of a thing will not give that thing its level of importance to me. I wasn't raised that way. And I most certainly won't apologize for that.
I call it "being a normal human being"
It is the same reason why I am not embarrassed when I bombard MTN Call centers to demand my money back when their stupid internet service system conveniently steals my money. I don't care if it is N2500 or N200. I pay for the service I get, and I can't see why an average Joe should be leaving even 50 kobo for a multi-billion naira corporation like MTN.
It is also the same reason why I decided to vote for Gani Fawehinmi in 2003, Pat Utomi in 2007, and Buhari in 2011.
I was being a normal person that wanted the closest thing to normal results from the available possibilities on ground.
In any-case, I am trying to market this "radical concept" of normalcy to the rest of the population in Nigeria. And if you're reading these lines right now, then it's a very high probability that you are already a normal person as well.
But we want to go beyond just being normal for ourselves. We need to be trying to spread normalcy across the the country. Kind of like a virus. A good virus. Yes o!
We want it to become contagious. So that hopefully, by 2015, many people will vote for a sensible candidate. Hopefully, people will not vote and defend their votes with arguments that make them look like retarded zombies.
...Or rabid lunatics.
You want to help your neighbor recover himself from the mental abyss where the forces of darkness have shackled his reasoning faculties. You know? That place where anything at all can be justified so long as "it makes sense financially".
You want to help your neighbor to become a REAL believer in that God that he professes day by day, by believing that his country can and will soon be rescued from the evil a##holes that stand on her neck and squeeze the life out of it in order to enlarge their bellies, and feed that never ending poverty in their souls till kingdow come. ;)
They know themselves and so do you.
So don't pretend that you don't!
And think about your children....please!
For now, I'll leave you with this quote that someone made about America. He said....
"Defending America is not really about the defending the country. It is more about defending the 'IDEA' of America.
An idea that is supposed to be contagious".
or something like that sha...
The man who made this statement so proudly, was NOT American. He was a pure Irish man.
But I sincerely understand why he spoke that way.
As for us in Nigeria, all I wish to add is this,
Imagine what would happen, if one day, it becomes impossible to give birth to your kids in the US or the UK. Imagine if it becomes impossible to get a VISA to South Africa. Then imagine if things continue in the same trend that they've been.
Do we continue to deceive ourselves that we are proud of what we have? Do we continue to tell ourselves that we are no better than our rulers? Will that make us feel better about our complacency? And also feel better about our lack of true Faith in God?
Let us begin to think hard.
Let us begin to reason like Normal human beings.
