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" R EGARDLESS , everything regardless. Now it will take a while to count from 1 to here, many seconds have gone down with years still to count. Uneasy is the head that wears the crown, but even more uneasy is a head that is full of dreams . If the size of our heads would reflect the size of our dreams,  this space will not suffice to fit mine in. -Regardless, everything regardless.- Dreams a-down aplenty, Dreams a-dawn a-more! If the hairs on our head would spell the ones which have come true, I may not boast an Afro, but the vulture has got nothing on me. -Regardless, everything regardless.- Like the cock that crows, not minding who's listening, and the dawn that breaks giving no care about who's watching, we rise to chase our dreams paying no mind to how long we've been running. -Regardless, everything regardless.- But like that proverbial child on his mother's back, for me, "running" a thousand miles has borne no diff...

"W elcome here,  To this place;  LIFE , We hope you enjoy your stay, Please feel free to be yourself,  As long as it conforms to what we want, Make sure you love yourself, Not too much or we'll tear you down, We'll bully you for smiling, And fine you for your frown, You can fall in love with anyone, As long as it's who we choose, We'll let you have your opinions, But please shape them to our views, Welcome to society , We promise to allow you live your life, Serve any of the gods, We'll tell you which one anyway, Your movement is unrestricted here, We'll communicate to you places you can not go, You'll have our support all the while, We'll give it to you when we please, We are rooting for you always,  As long as you do not fail at any time, Be truthful at all times, Say ONLY what we want to hear, And one more thing now that you're here, Feel free to leave once you feel uncomfortable,  ...

" T here are no controversies really, Only men with differing view-points, Only men who wouldn't walk their walk, Only men who find 'wrong' to know 'right', Behind looks ahead, viewing from the other side, No true fronts,  No true backs, Pick a path and thread, it yours to define, Behind you is found 'back', Ahead of you lies your true-North at every given time, Everywhere leads somewhere, There's no disappointment for a man going anywhere. Ignorance indeed is bliss,  Comparative knowledge taketh away peace. Shall we then continue in this ignorance? No, seek The  truth ! Truth exist...and is infinite, Not definite. Truth is a journey, Truth is a 'destination', Follow through... There'll be one waiting there to lead you to the next phase of truth, of course, it's in phases." -TW™

"I try to think enough , but end up thinking only a lot . " This one mistake, a million and one humans are and continuously guilty of. The ideas and in fact meanings of the words "A lot" and "Enough" ordinarily cannot be interchanged.  The one speaks quantity, while the other speaks 'volumes'; Quantity and Quality , Abundance and Adequacy , Plenty and Sufficiency . See, that a thing is done many times and over, would not necessarily translate to being done enough, That it is in abundant supply, would not automatically depict that it's sufficient. I know your eyebrows are raised by now and you are gearing up to argue out the aforementioned with me, but just before you do, I'll ask you, have you looked up these words really? Have you a grammatical idea (let's pipe down a little on the psychology of the words for now) of them? To be ABUNDANT/A LOT means; "To have in great quantity, extent or degree"....

Many a time I try to bring some folks up to speed with recent trends, not losing sight of where we were coming from. This really can be a arduous task in most cases as a majority would rather  remain in the/their pasts.  Call them obstinate and my only dissatisfaction will be your failure to add the prefix "unnecessarily" or "myopically".  Sadly, too many sons & daughters  of my generation are failing to live their lives, in that they have preferred to live life by the views their ancestors held and passed down, over careful observation of life as it stands now.  It was not my intention to confuse you on writing this piece, and it still isn't now. But living the new life by old rules cum views can really complicate a lot of things.  Am not of the opinion that nothing of old was good or still relevant, am only and advocate of the use of life's 'Delete' & 'Add' button.  I really would have  love to write extensively, hi...

Ever thought about what was problem to you years ago and now? Ever wondered why there are still look alikes of the past in the now? As kids we needed clothes, and now has anything changed? Yes, now we need bigger and more fashionable clothes. For as old as the earth is, man's problem has being a struggle to "GET" and "ATTAIN". His strife daily sums up into those two words. The entirety of his days are spent on those two things. From cradle to the grave, that's all he pursues. From Adam's till present, this has not changed. If any change down/along the line, it must be in 'form and dimension' and not in 'presence or absence' for this problem is ever present among the living. THE PROBLEM: Many's view in the whole of this is; "Its Just A Normal Thing". But from the beginning,it was not so. Man was made to tend a garden, be fruitful and multiply. Basically just LIVE, not chasing after wants, needs or status. And there w...

"Peace for the rat, peace for the eagle; hunter and hunted, until then no peace shall find. Peace for the sword, peace for the wielder; until then, from blood stains none shall be spared. Peace for the food, peace for the chef, without which, both shall ever continue to sweat. Peace for the pen, peace for the writer, neither of the two can claim to feel no pains. Peace for the hated, peace for the hater, if they both will understand, not one is in a position of comfort. Peace for the candle, peace for the fire; only wish they both know sleep for the one is sleep for the other." LOVE PEACE, FOLLOW PEACE WITH ONE AND ALL. No one is ever truly at peace waring against the peace of another, its only a short while, and I hope not late, before we have all realized. +2348034780274

These lovely words came first from the pen of Thomas Jefferson(A one time U.S president) and are a part of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. As our use of language changes though, the original meaning of that phrase has been lost. When Jefferson wrote "the pursuit of happiness" he meant something similar to "the practice of happiness." Think about the whole phrase this way - "life, liberty and the practice of happiness." We have life, we have liberty, and we can have happiness. Happiness has never been something to aspire to, but something to practice, or most fittingly, BE. As I think about this concept I recognize that we spend much of our time in pursuit, when what we really need to do is practice what we want. For example, it wouldn`t be enough to be in pursuit of an Olympic Gold Medal, you know the only way to get there is to practice. This may seem very obvious for the kinds of skills already associated with practice (...

Its many hours gone now, and you're still "Wanting to do it" Its years gone now and not one move have you made, instead you've had accumulated months of wishful thinking. When exactly are you going to do it? Oh, at the right time you're saying? Am sorry to announce to you, that phrase is a SCAM, there's no such thing, you really must make a time right. Procrastination is a sickness of the; high and mighty, small and lowly, young and old, saint or sinner,rich or poor. Its got no bounds, it respects no limits. There exist a common saying that; "Procrastination Is The Thief of Time", but re-branding this, I'll submit that; "Procrastination Is The Thief of Life", for it steals your life right before your watchful eyes. It does it so cynically, you hardly realize you losing anything. Like that common African folklore that pictures the mouse as eating a part of you and blowing you cool air to the surface of that part of you being eat...

......By popular demand, sequel to my last post "Speak Now Or Forever Remain Silent", I bring to you the continuing episode of what went down the day. I want to seize this opportunity to thank my fans and blog readers for their followership, support, encouragements and sometimes critiques. Without you, there's no Wordsmith™. . . . ...I could not laugh enough on the day. In a funny twist of events, don't forget we already have 3-bodies lying on the altar. I adjusted my sit properly, and told myself "Not one scene of this will I miss out on". Every man for his kind, the priest had ignored both bride and groom and reached out to revive his ailing colleague, fanning air to his face with the programme outline in his hands. Both parents also took to the alter, seeing the selfish gesture of the priest, each taking to the direction of their wards (Grooms parent to groom, and Bride's to the bride) everyone battling to resuscitate their own. With the pr...

"If anyone here has any reason why these two should not be joined together, let him speak now or forever remain silent" ....The priest had barely concluded his words before we heard the doors yawned open paving the way for this tall, dark-skinned, fine looking young man, dressed in a nicely cut grey suit. The knocks of his shoe heels on the floor was all that was to be heard in the auditorium, as the whole place had gone dead silent on his appearance. Startled by this scene, and confused by the thought of trying to reason out what exactly was going on, the priest could at best draw out his white handkerchief from the pocket of his robe as he wiped his face severally as if to say, every one wipe made him see better. For all those minutes it took this man to make his way up the alter, I understood better the meaning of the medical term "SHOCK". The bride, you mean what was happening to her? I fear we don't go there, she had gone past the stage of something ...

"Tell them more often, and it becomes their truth" ...On this one sentence I'll build a base for today's piece. Hopefully it'll be a short one, once the heart of the message I'm able to strike right early. There's this tiny little thing I'm about to expose, and we all have one time or the other been a sucker for it even in our most guarded moments of critical observation and consideration. Having watched closely, I've observed a few things, one of which I'll take my time to scratch in this piece. More of the talk today hoovers around; Truth, Lies, Deception, the Frequency and Emphasis of it. A careful examination has shown that humans tend to believe a word, thing, or opinion with the highest degree of occurrence, call it frequency and you'll still not be wrong. Many a times, a lie is only a lie on its first appearance. And subsequent appearance of such begins to trigger some degree of consideration within a regular human mind which...

...The WORlD obviously was made by words, and till today, its governed by same. I looked through all that marvels me in the creation story, only to find the recurring words; "Then He SAID...". There couldn't have been a world without a word. There couldn't have been a you, a me, if He hadn't spoken. With the power of words creation was made possible, With the power of words, life was called into existence and even more by it, lives today are manipulated, as it is nothing remains the same in the world of they that 'speak'. Little wonder status quo holds only in the world of the dumbs and numbs. Over here, the story is different, change is inevitable as long as words don't remain unspoken or unwritten. Words are strong Words take life, and give it all at the same time. . . ...The Almighty saw the essence, and he optimized it. Men became aware of its potency, hence they exploited it. Then it took The Almighty again to warn; "There's...

It's beyond the cover, I tell you, it's beyond the cover, You may think you're seeing it all, but it's beyond the cover. The beauty of the glowing sun cannot compare to what it goes through to get that hot, radiant and gay. It's beyond what you see, I tell you it's beyond the cover. The ocean and high seas look so blue and attractive at first look, probe to know what goes on deep down inside, then you'll realize without mistaking, it's beyond the cover. The night falls, darkness come, and mankind goes to sleep. In the quiet of the night, creatures walk, creatures talk, creatures creep, creatures fall. Many things go right or wrong, but it's night is what you know, that it's night is what you see, *Deep Sigh* I tell you this, it's beyond the cover. Man was made for all to see, but his inside was made for none to see. His words, acts and deeds remain the only clue to what's truly him, all we see, touch and feel are nothing but what is...

If life to you 's a game, start the playing EARLY. If to you it seems like luck, then start the Gambling EARLY. If to you it seems like Fun, do start the Enjoying EARLY. If like some, it seems like Food, pleeease start the cooking EARLY. If life seems a Script, do well to start the Drama EARLY. If life to you seems a Book, flip the pages faster, and start the Reading EARLY. If like some it feels like Poison, then find the antidote. EARLY. If life to you 's been nothing but Pain, get some pain relief and shake it off EARLY before it becomes chronic. If life to you is all about Friends, Gather them EARLY. If life to you seems nothing more than family, do good to make one EARLY. If life to you sums up its meaning as Money, gather your focus and go for it EARLY. If life to you seems nothing but God, better live it for Him, and give in to Him EARLY. LIFE 'S LIVING ITS LIFE IN A HURRY....There's never enough time here, everything moves in a hurry, so bad it isn't wait...