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Monday, January 26, 2015

THE DECEIT OF WEALTH


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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