are relative, even age. It is like man & dog. A man may have a puppy
now, bury it in 10 years, & not be upset about it. To the man, it was
10 years, to the dog it was 70 years or thereabout. Same thing with
countries.
To a man, Nigeria is 50, but in national age, it is still in a crèche.
Many examples cite our need for diapers. Why? Our 'shit' gets away
from us & stinks up the place. The U.S. has been potty-trained, their
shit doesn't get away from them, and we only smell the lingering
traces of it because it's been flushed away. We don't even know where
the toilet is. But it's fine. It's cool. The infant-mortality rate
among countries is pretty high, so we have tried...so far, that is.
But that's us here and now, with self-pity growing around the period.
It's raining hard here right now. Sign of things to come? On the
surface, I'd hope not, but on closer inspection...it all depends on
your perspective.
Showers of blessing/deluges of doom. I pick showers of blessing. There
are too many points of divine intervention in Nigeria's history to
ignore the factor of the supernatural.
We've seen so many coups, deaths (individual & corporate),
dictatorships, sabotage, terror...things that do not encourage
survival. But we survive. We are kept. Preserved by more than what we
can readily understand. It's greater than purpose. It is destiny.
Well, here's wishing Nigeria 50 more years to come. I'll be in my 80s
then, but I'll be able to say we made it...complete with a dance
routine to the tune of 'We Made It- Linkin Park & Busta Rhymes'. Or
maybe there will be another song that better captures the spirit of
the dogged fighter. Not quite sure what to make of everything so far,
except it has been more entertaining than the EPL, in terms of gossip,
happenings, transfers, tackles traded, fouls called but not given,
Offside goals disallowed/allowed in favor of 'bigger teams', players
either earn big or just get by...it is a human system with human flaws
in logic, behaviour and outcome.
I'm not smart, nor a psychologist, but I admire men like Piagét (I
really hope I'm spelling it right) who gave Child-Developmental
Psychology a jump. I'm not sure where our true position is on the 'age
chart' for countries, but we're still young. Impatience guarantees
nothing. Comparison denies individuality. Why should we subject
ourselves to negative influences like these and still expect people
will still sit up.
We haven't decided on we should staying together or not or how we'll stay.
Except we've agreed that we're together. I don't really see a future
apart. We've too much to sample from ourselves to decide that one
group isn't worth saving/dealing with.
Well, let's be grateful for things we offer to the world, then to
ourselves. We've given the world Sade, Seal... I inconveniently forget
the rest. We've given ourselves something to gripe about rather than
gripe about other peoples & countries.
Oh well, that's history in the making for you...on looking back will
you recognise where you were when you were here. I just hope you act
right. I just hope so.
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