How sweet? It is as sweet as honey! It is the quest
of all the living, it is scarce yet abundant, it thrills and kills, it makes allies
likewise foes; it is wealth… Absolutely few things are as illusory as wealth in
the whole-wide world. When you don’t have it, you loathe yourself and think if
you have it, you have all things and when you have it, it is as good as having
everything and it is also as though you have nothing. Yes! You have a number of
houses in lekki, Ikoyi, VGC, Banana Island and all exclusive
high-brow estate
in the whole world, you have the best model of Jeep, spotty and Royce rolls
cars, A bogus account that can transform the lives of a million people;
however, all these literarily confer a ‘superficial’ sense of power and control
over everything but as deceitful as wealth can be, you are unable to quench the
emptiness that stem from the realization that no one however rich has ever live
eternally, that death doesn’t take money in place of life, that money does not
make a happy family, more so that you can have mansions everywhere in the
universe but you can neither tame nor win life. Adversaries hit anyone without
preference for wealth or poverty- this is when somebody like Ibrahim babangida
lost wife (mariam) when he can afford to pay death a fortune to retain his dear
wife or when Dana plane crashed in Lagos killing a number of cream la de cream
of Nigeria. No matter how stupendous your wealth is, it can only give the
impression that you can but never can you control the vagaries of life just as
the poor too cannot.
In similar vein, desires are insatiable; from cradle
to grave one keep aspiring! Perhaps this claim will be vindicated by re-quoting
dangote’s (the richest man in Africa) words in one of his recent interview when
he said: ‘I work for not less than 18hours per day. ‘It is one thing to enter
the Forbes list and it is the other to get ejected, so one must work extremely
harder to remain on that list’ - that was dangote’s words – suffice to say that
the richest man in Africa still cannot rest on his oasis, he still struggles!
So to you my brothers (Nigerians) who will stop at nothing to amass wealth
(filthy wealth) thinking that with it, life and the command of life is at your
finger tips; kindly put at the back of your mind that wealth is one category of
a million things that gives a good life – wealth is absolutely constrained, it cannot give true happiness, total satisfaction
and sound health… Meanwhile, these three things are within reach if and
only you love your family unconditionally, laugh with them and share
wholeheartedly with them. If and only you love your neighbors and humanity, if
you are fair in your day to day dealings such that you go to bed everynight
with a mind free of guilt. If you are contented with what you have such that
you look back regularly to give to those who needed than you do (with these
attitudes in place I believe you can command life, after all, your happiness
and satisfaction will be profound and from within)… Fellow Nigerians, wealth is
only deceitful, it is not what it appears.
While I acknowledge
that wealth is good and encourage everyone to morally and legitimately strife
to have it, I recommend diligence, integrity, fairness and brotherhood for all
who desire excellence, acceptance, happiness and satisfaction altogether in
this mysterious cosmos called life!
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