Wish I could neither be strict about these issues nor go ballistic concerning virtues I grew up to understand were the trees by the river side for a responsible man to live with. I am short of reasonable words to express the deplorable state at which the noble foundation built by our fathers to secure a house on a solid rock out of us as children of years past is now being lived.
Oh my God! Am I in for a long speech again?, I silently ask myself each time my Dad sits me down and hammers 'Hardwork is the bedrock of success' into my little skull then. Am sure glad it administered a dogged spirit into me,as it helps to press on to greater heights even when it all seems tough. These days,it is soul shattering to see HARDWORK not being a bedrock any more,instead a stepping stone to HARDLUCK knowing you work hard yet hardly earn money worthwhile to keep up a good living standard. Is it not in this Nigeria where we highly place morals that dignitaries steal our money meant for the buidilng of the nation with their pens?they regard positions being held as a curse for the people and a blessing to their pockets. Last year was a case of two young men luring cynthia to lagos,have her drugged,tied her up,raped her and finally killed her just for the sake of stealing her money,is it not alarming that the values we once believed to build our society with,are no more of relevance to our everyday life?
It is really shameful that all those folklore stories that we read from books and waited patiently for NTA to start its transmission by 4p.m are faded away. Those examples of tortoise or any other character to properly depict a situation just to make understand more about loyalty,forgiveness,respect,goodness,honesty and moral excellence has vanished into thin air.I will not do away with a television series back then that really had kids glued to their father's tv set,Tales by moonlight it was called,this was the height to which our society was willing to imbibe life lessons to learn from,I remember how myself and my friends will mimic the thick voiced Jimi Solanke as he begins to narrate the story for the day alongside folklore songs,it is true we just thought they were stories but really they are life lessons we should learn from and live with.
Parenting is gradually becoming our responsibility and with time we will take the bull by the horns to do what is expected of us,I wonder what values we will subject our kids to,life lessons we will help them grow in and guidelines we are obliged to groom them with.oh! Are we not seeing enough already? Is it not one of our dignitaries here in Nigeria that had his kid in the United Kingdom and we eventually see him on tv attempting to blow-up a plane?Did we not hear of a Madueke's son still in school with a private jet in the united states?we neither were deaf to stories of a renonwed lagos politician that has accounts for each of his kids overseas with large sum of money enough to build lagosians good roads and pipe borne water, What is of gain when you place in the hands of your child a gun?you just have left us all at his mercy.
Oh my God! Am I in for a long speech again?, I silently ask myself each time my Dad sits me down and hammers 'Hardwork is the bedrock of success' into my little skull then. Am sure glad it administered a dogged spirit into me,as it helps to press on to greater heights even when it all seems tough. These days,it is soul shattering to see HARDWORK not being a bedrock any more,instead a stepping stone to HARDLUCK knowing you work hard yet hardly earn money worthwhile to keep up a good living standard. Is it not in this Nigeria where we highly place morals that dignitaries steal our money meant for the buidilng of the nation with their pens?they regard positions being held as a curse for the people and a blessing to their pockets. Last year was a case of two young men luring cynthia to lagos,have her drugged,tied her up,raped her and finally killed her just for the sake of stealing her money,is it not alarming that the values we once believed to build our society with,are no more of relevance to our everyday life?
It is really shameful that all those folklore stories that we read from books and waited patiently for NTA to start its transmission by 4p.m are faded away. Those examples of tortoise or any other character to properly depict a situation just to make understand more about loyalty,forgiveness,respect,goodness,honesty and moral excellence has vanished into thin air.I will not do away with a television series back then that really had kids glued to their father's tv set,Tales by moonlight it was called,this was the height to which our society was willing to imbibe life lessons to learn from,I remember how myself and my friends will mimic the thick voiced Jimi Solanke as he begins to narrate the story for the day alongside folklore songs,it is true we just thought they were stories but really they are life lessons we should learn from and live with.
Parenting is gradually becoming our responsibility and with time we will take the bull by the horns to do what is expected of us,I wonder what values we will subject our kids to,life lessons we will help them grow in and guidelines we are obliged to groom them with.oh! Are we not seeing enough already? Is it not one of our dignitaries here in Nigeria that had his kid in the United Kingdom and we eventually see him on tv attempting to blow-up a plane?Did we not hear of a Madueke's son still in school with a private jet in the united states?we neither were deaf to stories of a renonwed lagos politician that has accounts for each of his kids overseas with large sum of money enough to build lagosians good roads and pipe borne water, What is of gain when you place in the hands of your child a gun?you just have left us all at his mercy.
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