MEMORIES OF HIGH SCHOOL: CLASS’ BIGGEST DULLARD

Sorry I didn’t finish the series on high school memories. I actually thought I did. I was just going through my blog and discovered I did leave it hanging. Don’t worry, I will finish it. Now, the title of today’s post :”The Biggest Dullard”. Well, let’s cut the long story short, that was me. I wasn’t always this brilliant, in short, I was never this brilliant. Though right now I am on a first class and one of the best in the class (am not proud, am naturally intelligent and I know. I am not boasting, I am just proclaiming God’s work), it wasn’t always like that. In short, it was never like that.

 While in high school, the only good result I ever had was my ss2 third term result. Practically, I failed every other class. Even my jss1 first term result was horrible. It got to a time my dad didn’t even bother asking for my result any longer. I still wonder how I didn’t repeat all my classes.  The worst result I ever had was my jss2 first term result.OMG!! If even my own child should bring that result home, I will not only beat the whole heaven and hell out of him, I will also withdraw him from school. He would become an apprentice with immediate effect. He will probably become a mechanic or a tailor for a while… Let me tell you what I had *whispers* out of 15 subjects, I had an F in 13 subjects and an E in French and an A in English. Yea, 13 F9s. for God’s sake, what was I doing in school??  Dashing OSCCO my school Fees?? Yea, that was like the only thing I was doing. I really never knew how I always got promoted. Most of the time, I had just what I needed for promotion.  Though, today, you see a boy whose life is sequenced around Mathematics and who has won a lot of Mathematics awards, just 4 years ago, if you ever asked me to write any mathematics exam I will pray for a cup passover. Right from when I was in primary school, all I knew was English and a bit of French. I DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING!! Funny enough, all my friends, I mean all of them were very intelligent students. They were very good. One day, I went to see one at home and we were talking and then I don’t know where it came from, I had mixed feelings of anger, pain ,failure and determination. I started reading very hard and that was when I discovered that I wasn’t that bad. I was now an average student. All thanks to Afoo.

WHY LOVE SUCKS

Right from time, I always believed love sucks!! And today, it has been confirmed. If you recall, I said in a post sometime ago that I am not ready to give my heart out to anyone anytime soon(if you missed it click here); today I want to tell you why.  Trust me, it is better to keep and swallow your emotions than to let it flow. Even if all my other reasons are not very correct to you, there is one reason that will always be right: IT REDUCES YOUR CGPA!! . Is somebody wondering how I got to know, I will tell you; I tried it last semester. One advice from me to you is; DON’T FALL IN LOVE, FALL OFF A BRIDGE. IT HURTS LESS!!

First, the expression most commonly used with love is “falling in love” and that’s what sucks about it. You are tricked into it like an addictive gambling game and then you are tripped and you fall and you keep falling in a seemingly endless spiral and like everything else that falls, you eventually hit a bottom and it will be hard and painful. Falling in love only gives you an incurable ache when you reach the end. Second, love is blind. You will walk into love without seeing it and you will follow love without noticing it. It will dictate your life and you will not know until the blindfold is gone and you love no more. Only then would you realize what kind of sheep you had been under the spell of love. Third love hurts. When you fall in love, there are many times your feelings are not returned resulting into a painful void in your heart. The pain will feel unbearable and was not worth the heady feeling you got before your love was not returned. After realizing the truth behind the disadvantages of love and after experiencing the heart break for yourself, you will only realize how meaningless and futile your love was. Your love will only cut you open in the end.

 When love finishes messing with you, you seem to suddenly become a very nice poet. You start to write things like:

I opened my heart

I let down my guard

You walked right in

And ripped my insides apart          

You messed with my mind

I didn’t fight back

 

I enjoyed it so much

When it was all over you left my head

You ripped out my heart

And left me for dead

I will remember you

For you are the reason

I once was so open

But now I am closed            ……..etc                                                         

 Again, “All is fair in love and war”. This commonly used saying is very true; it will only result in your downfall. Competition is what love is all about and love is just the same. You will compete with others to show your affection and prove your love is most worthy. But, so will everyone else and you will be left with nothing, having sacrificed to try and win. The most important reason why love sucks and is not worth your time is that;  Your love is not more important than someone else’s. Unless you are some sort of Casanova or Eros, the Greek god of Love and Passion, your love is only important as long as someone believes it is. To keep someone in need of your love, it takes a lifetime of adoration and spontaneity, or else, they will look to someone else for the same love and adoration. In the end, LOVE CAN ONLY HURT YOU and as for me, I will keep all my feeling to myself and still keep being stingy with my heart.

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IMAGINE

Imagine there’s no heaven

It’s easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today

Imagine there are no countries

It isn’t hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

You may say I am a dreamer

But I am not the only one

I hope someday you’ll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you’ll join us

And the world will live as one.

 

WHOSE MAGA

Chill... are you that imprudent?? You met that chick somewhere in school, you collected her number, you call her every night, you buy her ice cream, you sit with her every time,you try to make her very happy and cormfortable. You call her every night for about 25 minutes and she has called uou only ONCE!! Even that once, she dint spend up to 2 minutes on the phone. You save up your pocket money to buy her a gift of about #25000 and on your birthday, she sends you a sms and gives you cornflakes, singlet and a belt. You finally ask her out ag the end of the day then she says "Ooooo thatz soo sweet but i am already going out with someone. My boyfriend is studying medicine in Russia" . Instead of you to pack well and friend zone the babe, you feel it's a time to hang around and play Mr Nice Guy, spending your money on her and God help you if the girl is a sharp girl , she uses you to catch freshness and u r still there, giving yourself hope,Wake Up my Friend!! You are not in love. YOU ARE FOOLISH!!!

Some guyz really amuse me. Is it that they dont understand or they just refuse to face the truth?? Once a girl does not have feelings for you, all the money in the world can not bring it.... you think "one day she will fall in love with me" ... Mumu boy, you better wake up!! You dont fall in love,You grow in love!! Do you know those you can catch with your money, i will tell you. Shoddy, substandard, common,tawdry ,low , contemptible, economical, low-cost , reduced, cut-price, inferior girls. CHEAP girls. You dont meet a girl today and tommorrow you are kissing, holding each other, sleeping together and you say you are in love... MY FRIEND, WATCH IT!!! Real girls dont give a flying damn about your money..... whatever they are looking for, i dont know but trust me, it's not your money.

Bros, you better wake up and stop chasing that one who will answer you only when children start breast feeding their mothers. Wise up... when she gets tired of the free money, she will shout at you!! And she will tell you exactly what she sees you as to your face.. .. Her BANK!!! And it will pain you!! You probably will then start thinking she was magaing you all thw while.... no my friend, You were MAGAing YOURSELF!! She was just helping.

(Follow me on twitter @joeloseiga)

Whose Government?? Yours or Your Pocket’s??

As allured as I am not to write anything about the authorities, the debauch nature of those in the political system is really shuddery and calls for serious attention.  Though I have decided to take my hands off writing about the political structure and inclination of the country and her rulers, I still can’t hold out the temptation to do so.  Look, if you want to kill yourselves over power, you are free. Trust me, Nigerians and even your family will only mourn you for a week or two and forget about you. Most Nigerians don’t even care if you are alive or not. After all, what use has your existence been to them? Oh yes, sorry, it has been ‘very useful’...  Let me give a few examples of your achievements……. High rate of youth unemployment, buying petrol for #97 per litre, terrible road network, horrible system of education, lovely PHCN that has succeeded in holding power only to themselves. Those are the great works our good government has been able to give to us. Na wa ooo!! You see, I am not even very mad at the way they are even siphoning the money placed in their care, what is irritating my soul is our own future which they are disrupting because of their greed. If they even use the stolen money for useful things that benefit humanity, it probably would have been less of an offence but what do they do with the money?? Send themselves and their children abroad, marry more wives, build gigantic houses, buy hedonistic cars etc… they just waste it!!

Not only have they succeeded in making life hard for an average Nigerian, they have also succeeded in poisoning the minds of the Nigerian child. In the days of my grandfather, when a child was asked what he wanted to become in future, he would say things like : a doctor because I want to save lives, a lawyer because I want to uphold justice, a teacher because I want to make an impact in someone’s lives, even those who had the love for money were saying things like; I want to be an engineer so that I can build big houses and make good money, etc. The fact is that they all chose professions that they loved and most of them chose those professions because of the satisfaction and joy they derived from it. Have you ever tried asking that same question in a primary school today?? I bet  that at least 16 out of a class of 22 will want to be governors, ministers, senators, presidents, etc  and the remaining 6 won’t mind holding public offices. What happened to the joy of hard work and the satisfaction derived from an average salary?? I will tell you. Have you ever listened to news on the radio before?? Have ever heard them talk about mismanagement of public funds?? If you have, you will understand why almost every Nigerian child wants to become a politician in future.  The outrageous figures they mention is enough to poison a child’s mind.

The most painful part of their actions is that even with all the shouts of the likes of Seun Kuti, Femi Falana,etc they still refuse to listen. The youths are shouting high rate of unemployment, they are shouting government grade and marking scheme. The youths are shouting bad Governance they are busy shouting Merger. The people are shouting no food, no water, no money; they are shouting and fighting over allowance. Everybody is crying Boko Haram, they are shouting 2015 elections!  For heaven’s sake, this is 2013!! Or is 15 minus 13 no longer 2?? 2 years is not 2 minutes o!! Don’t you get it?? It is not the length of your election campaign that matters! it is the people’s trust in you!! Moreover, I wonder why it should pain you so much if you are relieved of voluntary stress (which good governance is supposed to be) by losing an election to the extent that you threaten a whole nation especially one you have ruled before. Do you really want Nigerians to believe you want to serve?? Oh! Of course you do. The question is who or what do you want to serve? Nigeria or your pockets?

  If you want to destroy your lives, destroy it in peace but please, stop dragging the lives of our youths down with you. If you want to kill each other, good luck! Kill each other with your own hands and stop using our youths. Let the law catch you and lock you up not one poor man’s son whose future might have been bright if not for your interference.  We have so many rivers in Nigeria. if you don’t know anyone, that’s not a problem, you must know 3^rd  mainland bridge.  JUMP!! Let your family enjoy all the money you have plundered.  Stop destroying the future of our youths by siphoning the tomorrow’s resources into your private accounts. Me I don’t even know who they are deceiving sef?? I think it is high time they are asked: Whose government are they?? Theirs or their Pocket’s??    Definitely, it is not Ours..

(ff@joeloseiga)

THE LINE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY

 Yesterday, I was discussing with an older friend of mine about what my plans for the holiday were. I told him that I had a couple of books on the brain, Vibrations and electricity to read. In the course of our discussion he mentioned something I strongly disagree with. He said “everything on earth is controlled by the supernatural”. Though I wasn’t able to totally convince him, probably because that was the idea registered in his brain but just hear me out first. I wonder why some people tag some aspects of science such as artificial intelligence, telekinesis, levitation, telepathy, mind-reading, etc as demonic. To me, they can be described as pure science whose researches are still going on.

 The word Supernatural is attributed to a phenomena that cannot be explained by natural laws and when I talk of natural laws, I am referring to a law of morality believed to be derived from human beings’ inherent sense of right and wrong, rather than from revelation or the legislation produced by the society. A natural law can just be summed up as a law that governs the behavior of natural phenomena. Science on the other hand refers to the sturdy of the “Physical” and “natural” world and phenomena, especially by systematic observation and experiment. That is the knowledge gained by the sturdy of “Physical” world.

The greatest gift that was given to man by God as at creation is Free Will which is the power of independent action and choice. The ability to act or make choices as a free and autonomous being and not solely as a result of compulsion or predestination. When you do things of your own free will, you are not being forced by somebody or something else. In fact, that free will was given to us to the extent that man is able to decide whether or not to serve God and keep is rules while here on earth.  To quite a number of people, my point of view may be fascinating because I respect the fact that there is a God who is a supreme being. 

 

Though God sees every action of ours, he does not interfere unnecessarily .My definition of “unnecessary” here is God interferes only when necessary and a situation is necessary only when He decides and says it is. Since God created man and has the whole world under His feet, if he decides to interfere in every action of man, then there will be no wrong in this world. Everybody will be perfect because we were created in God’s image and likeness  and God is Perfect. But the Bible in Mattew 4:48 quoted Jesus who is the son of God and is presently sitting at the right hand of God saying:

                                 “Be ye perfect, even as your father which is in heaven is perfect.”

 If God actually controls every decision man makes, we will not be told to be perfect. We will be naturally wired to be perfect and do good here on earth and then there will be no hell and no book of life. God interferes only in situations and decisions he decides to.

JOEL’S HOLIDAY

Lately, I have been busy enjoying my holiday…. It has been a lot of fun at least till now… really, I havnt done anything useful yet but I hope I will find something really soon. .. well, I was thinking that since my holiday is going to be really long, then I should blog every day. Well, I will be starting a new series: JOEL’S HOLIDAY …. That will bring you pictures, videos and write-ups on how I spent each day of my four months break. Most importantly, I will relate each day to something that affects our everyday life and stuff. … You are free to comment on any post, reblog if you want or even share….  I love you.. ! :) ..ByE