skip to main | skip to sidebar

Larigold.blogspot.com

Home of Insight

 
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Medley of Thoughts. Written by Chinelo Orizu

Posted by Lanre Olagunju at 11:05 AM – 1 comments
 

Love, hate, fantasies, money, emotions, passions, and death are part of the mysteries of life. People say I love you every day and yet can’t explain the meaning of the word “love”. Ok! How can you tell when you are truly in love? How do you know you have found the right person? When in a relationship does love die? How do you truly tell when the person loves you back? How do you know when it’s true love? How can you measure love, and with what yardstick do you measure? These are questions that will hunt mankind from generation to generation.  In our quest to illuminate such grey areas as such, we have developed and created talk shows and several volumes of books to act as a guideline out of obscurity. But unfortunately they only leave us at crossroads with so much confusion.
We all fantasize at one point or the other, and we could become so engrossed with our fantasies that you just wonder, how did it start? Why did the human mind at some point divert from the normal to the abnormal? Well it’s simple. Fantasizing is our way of escaping the real world, using the imaginative to create a new world that sometimes only resides in the mind.  A world we can only wish for but can never afford in reality. We have different way of playing out our fantasies. We play out our fantasies over sex, Love, The idea of death {by changing it}, Life with technology, Power/superpower, Life with money, A different childhood, Different gender or race and the list goes on.

Some people have fantasies and find a way to lay them to rest, while others try to live it or die trying.

Hate is pure-not mixed or uncertain, hate is sure; hate is in black and white it has no gray in it. Hate is perfect, hate is explainable, hate begets violence, hate begets revenge, and hate is true.

We have found a way of confusing emotions with passions. Books have been written about them, shows have been hosted on behalf of them, but this is what I have to say: emotion came into this just like you and I, it’s something we were born with and like our age we have little or no control over it, but passion is like a degree we acquire, it’s like language we make use of it. The emotions of a person can only die when he kicks the bucket. Passion in man can die at any time or as soon as he loses interest.

Many times we erroneously say “money is the root of all evil” Some understand better and they say “the love of money is the root of all evil” Scratch the former and stay with the latter while I give you my candid perception to the money thing. If you ask me again and again I will simply say “society is the root of all evil, money is just a helping hand” confused?

All over the world we realize that so much attention is given to the rich people and people of the high class more than the poor. And come to think of it our immediate society is one where the rich gets away with almost anything, or is it not in our society that the rich thieves get all the respect meant for noble men, or don’t you see executive robbers work with so much pride that they are even offered front role seat at religious gathering.

Ours is a Society where the poor is treated poorly as if being poor is not enough. The system has always been like this. Presently, even the middle class have no class anymore ‘cos they are treated terribly. Now, it’s either you are rich or very rich, and that’s terrible for our society! Man now thrives very hard to become very rich or filthily rich either by hook or by crook. Not that the need to be very rich is the most important thing but the craving to be accepted by the society has made the chase for vanity the only sane thing. So now evil duels in the society, the society is like a car, and money is only acting as the fuel. Ponder about it!

We live to die, to die is to live-death is inevitable. Death is what makes us human” so why are we afraid of dying if we know it’s inevitable? Why are we looking for ways to live longer and remain forever young? Why can’t we accept the fact one day we will get old? And come to think of it there is no shame or crime in getting old.

I am not afraid of dying but I am afraid of how I will die, when I will die and were I will go to when I eventually die. Death is a bringer of sorrows, the taker of life, it has no respect for age, it does not discriminate, and it does not care for time. So live today like is your last. Imagine life without death; will it work? Will there be a balance in our world?

Don’t get me wrong I am not here to tell you how to live your life. I’m merely stating the fact that we pay way too much attention to love, money, emotion, passion, fantasies and death that we eventually forget to live life and enjoy it now that we still have it. 
Email This BlogThis! Share to X Share to Facebook

One Response so far.

  1. Anonymous says:
    September 18, 2011 at 5:33 PM

    What an insightful piece! Our society needs more of this. welldone.

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
  • Popular
  • Recent
  • Archives

Follow Me

Follow @lanre_olagunju

About Me

Lanre Olagunju
A Goal Getter,Hydrologist Turned Writer, Trained Journalist, Social Commentator.... Mr.Olagunju@gmail.com
View my complete profile

Popular Posts

  • Flash Light Phones: Bait for Sudden Death. By Lanre Olagunju
    What else can be more axiomatic than to say that death is inevitable? One of the surest things is that whatsoever has a beginning must surel...
  • Fix Education, Redeem the Nation! by Lanre Olagunju
    Education is admirable and its importance in a multinational state with a population of over 140 million, with a federation of 36states and ...
  • JAPHETH J OMOJUWA: A VOICE WITH REVOLUTIONARY SOUND. Written by Lanre Olagunju.
    A part of Nigeria says that when a child knows how to wash his hands well he will dine with elders. Japtheth J Omojuwa has been dining ...
  • The Church, the Mosque and Poverty in Nigeria – Japheth J Omojuwa
    . And God is able to make all grace (every favour and  [a] earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and und...
  • Free Market System Would Free Africa by Lanre Olagunju
    Despite the surplus that dwells plenteously on its fertile land, regarding the abundance of human capital, Africa, being the second largest ...
  • Learn How to Say Thank You by Lanre Olagunju
    “Life is lived forward but understood backwards” that is a tested truth! We as humans are left with no choice but to live our lives forward ...
  • MASTURBATION AND WET DREAMS By @Lanre_Olagunju
    More caution has to be taken these days since notable words have been released from religious quarters. May I offer to advise that you ...
  • Leadership Lessons from Martin Luther King Jr. By @Lanre_Olagunju
    Last Monday, the world again celebrated the Martin Luther king Jr. Day which is habitually celebrated every third Monday of January. As ...
  • Learn To Always Cherish Your Mum by Lanre Olagunju
    One of the best things that can happen to man here on planet earth is to experience the unconditional love of a mother. Most times when we t...
  • 7 WAYS TO BUILD STRONG SELF ESTEEM IN KIDS BY LANRE OLAGUNJU
    In both kids and adults, low self esteem has always been responsible for; blaming oneself for things that are distance from personal fault...

Archive

  • ►  2014 (1)
    • ►  June (1)
  • ►  2013 (9)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2012 (29)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (8)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ▼  2011 (26)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ▼  September (3)
      • Medley of Thoughts. Written by Chinelo Orizu
      • Healing the Sores We Don't Merit. Written By Lanre...
      • The Best Presidents Nigeria Ever Had written by De...
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2010 (10)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2009 (7)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (2)
 
 
 
© 2012 Larigold.blogspot.com