Inspite the glooms and the dark hours When light is overwhelmed by thick darkness Surely, the light shall shine again And the rainbow of hope shall fill my life again
Inspite the unyielding dark clouds When gloom appears to birth forever Surely, no matter when, sorrow will be defeated And despair will be gone
Inspite the disappearing silver linings When quietness take over the land Surely, happiness shall pervades my world again And my will shall berth hope again
Inspite the withered hope When life sweetness turn sour and hope withdrawn Surely, hope shall be restored And then, hope shall gather the broken
The Corona break started over six months ago and since then we’ve all learned how to sleep for long hours but is it only sleep that became a very crucial part of us? Did we spend all days sleeping without learning new things or doing other things?
As for me, I’ve been able to do some productive things during this break. Apart from attending online classes, I was compelled to writing every day which I really enjoyed, currently, I’m writing my third book since the break started infact I’m already planning two new books.
Apart from that, I read a lot of books, not only books but also news, someone like me who despises news now take pleasure in it, Opera news is now best friend. Recently, I enrolled for Spanish class though I’ve been trying to learn Spanish since this year started and the apps have only been playing on my phone but after I joined the goal challenge which made an online class mandatory for us, I decided to take up Spanish course.
Now that the break will end soon, looking back, here is the big question: Did you use this break wisely?
I grief when I read with so much precipitation, the unfortunate bickering and exchange of hot and unwholesome allegations and alterations between the United States of America and China where they accused each other on the creations or rather, putting it succinctly, laboratory manufacturing of two of the world deadliest diseases that have impugned negatively on the well being of the people.
In that passing of bucks, China in responding to the United States allegations that the virus, COVID-19 that is currently ravaging the world and being declared a pandemic, is a Wuhan laboratory created Virus, shot its own salvo by saying that the United States who is the laboratory manufacturer of HIV/AIDS is only envious of China and has been working hard albeit sinisterly to demonise China and blaming her for the woes rather than contending within eptitude and incompetence on the part of it’s leadership. China also alleged that United States is merely trying to drag her into the league of nations that play God by tampering with and controlling human existence with the arsenal of nuclear and biological weapons manufacturer, and unhealthy genetics restructuring.
Considering therefore, the altercation between these two world revered military, technology and economy powers, I cannot but wonder what other covert operations the two countries and the other so-called world powers must have perpetrated and still championing. As if the world is not witnessing enough natural and environmental disasters- December 2019 landslides in Zimbabwe, the 2019 heat stroke in Brazil and Australia, the wildfire in California, the drought in Bangladesh, and several tsunamis, hurricanes and volcanic eruptions across Asia to the Middle East and North America- that keep rising and threatening human existence.
People globally have been witnessing damning challenges in mental health, existential living and livelihood tend to but unfortunately choose to bicker and compete unhealthy leadings for no other reason but to exhibit supremacy in technology, economy, industrialization, military prowess and global domination.
We should, therefore ponder that in the face of these realities and such others that have been termed the products of warped minds, conspiratory theories and whistleblowers, why are we amidst all these still here? It is nothing but pure luck. Despite all odds, and against the harsh environmental conditions, the climate change, flooding, desertification, ozone layer depletion, global warming, pollution and such other unavoidable disasters that have been thrown at us, we are lucky to still be standing strong and alive. Many a times, we as a people have been shaken to the deepest of our roots, of our limitations but then we are still standing tall. Not for anything but for sheer luck, we have weathered the storms.
In the face of insecurity, killings, maiming, banditry, terrorism, kidnapping that have claimed many lives, destroyed men and properties, wiped out villages and bringing along its trails famine and diseases, we are lucky to be here. With a holistic consideration of our situations in Nigeria that has been bedevilled with bad leadership at all forms, resulting in massive corruption, unwholesome nepotism and tribalism and huge infrastructure breakdown that have greatly and negatively impacted in our state of health, declining standard of living and education, inadequate social services, epileptic power supply and death traps road that span the length and breadth of Nigeria, you will agree with me that it is a thing of joy that we are still alive when may have gone.
If you are finding it difficult to believe that it’s a luck, gift and God’s glory to be alive then you need to ask yourself what would have happened, where you would have been if the meteor that the scientists said was on collision course with our dear earth had hit us and emptied it’s toxic content on earth and completely destroyed all lives and existence making it inhabitable. Or what would have happened if you’d been residing in one e of the villages consumed by the Boko Haram rampages?
If you still don’t believe that you are lucky to be here, you need to ask yourself why a great number of people are contracting COVID-19, some suffering from the excruciating pains, while others are dying from it’s complications but without being the best , the strongest or most powerful, you are still here complaining of being locked down, of being jobless, of being hungry, of being restricted without any exposure or probability of contacting the deadly disease. But for God’s will we would not have survived all these, hence, I say we are just lucky to be here.
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