Wild thoughts 🧠

  WHO IS THE PROBLEM? One sunny afternoon, I had the rare opportunity to overhear about 5 “valiant” youths having a discussion about the upcoming Nigerian Presidential Election and which candidate to vote. One young, muscular man among them then touched on the subject of vote buying and voiced out his opinion that he would, without blinking an eye, sell his vote for whatever amount was given to him. The punchline I would like to draw from his words were; ‘I sold my vote during the last presidential elections, am I dead?’  My emotions immediately got stimulated and I decided in my mind that this guy must be mad to say such a thing. However, after a few minutes, I thought about his words again & again and I could help but ask myself what really made him have that kind of view and would I have done any different if I was in the same circumstances? The truth is we’re all really hypocrites and we may outrightly condemn an act by another meanwhile given the same circumstanc...

THE STRANGE FEELING WHEN YOU FINALLY GET WHAT YOU WANT Have you ever wanted something really bad that you worked your ass out for it and when you finally get it the feeling is different than what you expected? As a matter of fact, i have had this feeling a couple of times and i must say it's very depressing. Most people particularly feel this way when it comes to sex and from what i have observed, it mostly happens due to over planning and unnecessary high expectations. However, lets leave sex out of this discussion, this feeling of disappointment could also be present even when one accomplishes his most sought after goal, his purpose in life.  I once had a crazy nostalgia for a video-game i once played as a kid and had been searching for about 10 years for it. when i finally found it, however, i was happy at first but my happiness eventually turned sour as i repeatedly ask my sub-consciousness "Is this all there is to it?, What Next?". The more I experienced this feeling...