So, I was having a random chat
with Ringo, the other day, and we came up with some interesting observations
about people and society which I would gladly share with you in a jiffy. But before I indulge
you further I think it is expedient to introduce you, my dear reader, to Ringo;
my imaginary friend who is always there when I need to dilate on issues. And just before you go off the tangent that
Mynah - the talking bird, is at it again, I would like to preempt your mind
that, unlike you, who doesn’t have the time when I am ready to engage, Ringo is
always there to interact.
It’s funny how most people think
they are the last link in the human chain, thus placing too much
importance on
themselves or even on their watch. For a moment, we become susceptible to all
kinds of hogwash, making us believe we are at the tail end of the world and by
extension the end of human history. Is it not interesting when some folks
express their disgust about how the world has or is coming to an end when bad
and turbulent times come around?
Conclusively, some will die en
masse every time a catastrophe befalls us which doesn’t mean that the world has
come to an end. No! The world survived the holocaust; it even survived the
great flood that saw only a handful survive, so what more can come? At most,
you might fall a victim directly or indirectly but come tomorrow, the sun will
still rise from the East and set in the West. People will work, eat, merry and
have sex to procreate, except you, who would have become a part of the
statistics, which is sometimes exaggerated for future generations to read,
thanks to Historians.
As generational cohorts, we are
not fine as it seems but it’s just our fair share of trouble and disaster being
dished out to us. After all, dread has always characterized generations before
us, except ours are highly sophisticated and cancerous; sometimes through the simple
administering of a pint of a deadly chemical and the plunging of a syringe or
even a nuclear bomb. It’s even more deadlier when you think of suicide bombers
and viral infections such as Ebola on the other hand.
But whether these stories of
conspiracy are personal or polemical, perspectives or allegorical, it would be
in the interest of the reader to see beyond the matrix to see the reality
therein, since there’s usually a devil or God in the detail. And while it is
hopeful to have solace in the fact that good shall triumph in the end, be
however mindful that the world has kind of thrived on terror and trepidation
such as Powerhouses fighting against each other for superpowers, tales of big
stones raining from the skies to end our existence in such a morbid manner,
deadly and viral infections that yields to no cure, economic crunches that
cannot survive all the economic theories and spiel and wetincallit. So before you go about there spreading
rumors of your gullibility that the world is coming to an end, take note of
your existence on earth, subtract it from how long the world has existed and
the answer is your demise is near, not that of the world.
writer tweets @vilejah
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