BEYOND RELIGION AND CULTURE: Spiritual Musings 3
Spiritual Musings 1: A changemaker in any field should always expect attacks from those who are diehard to the old order s/he wants to establish a new order upon.
Spiritual Musings 2: Many men had been rulers of their different republics, which wasn't by their abilities, but the orchestration of somewhat interested Capitalists, and the rulers behaved like a Prince who is a newcomer to his dukedom
Spiritual Musings 3: Religion isn't supposed to be a barrier when considering who to marry, because even couples of the same belief most times experience differences that lead to irreconcilable differences, hence divorce.
Spiritual Musings 4: Most ladies & guys in Nigeria in recent times have a particular way of deciding if they would give a nod to a wo/man's acceptance nor advances towards them. They are much concerned with knowing what the wo/man does, but with a selfish approach. Any contacts with their supposedly loved one, they must ask, "How is work?" Sometimes if the response is neither an oil worker nor a politician nor overseas based nor from an ultra-financially rich background, they back-off. Is it important to base romantic love affairs on fortune? What happens to the love if the fortune is gone?
Spiritual Musings 5: Wedding doesn't warranty a marriage that would be successful or not, but respect, love and understanding do. Often, people go to their different altars to wed with the view of attracting their Gods blessings, yet many were not blessed, but the lunatic who had no hubby became pregnant in that squalor, and delivered without qualms of operation the wedded pay through the nose for. Marriage is beyond wedding. Why do we see vehicles boldly written ABOUT TO WED or JUST WEDDED, but we have not seen a vehicle that was written ABOUT TO DIVORCE or JUST DIVORCED? Yet, many who had once gone to their altars to attract their Gods blessings do divorce.
Spiritual Musings 6: Oil is nature's given blessing, splendid and fascinating, but man's greed towards its proceeds, has turned it to somewhat a curse, and hardly are the authorities concerned with its management, thinking outside the box than oil, expecially, in my country, Nigeria.
Spiritual Musings 7: "Yes, I may be blessed with the gift of presentation of speech in sports but if you just sit down, and you don't move with the time, you will be left behind... So, anywhere you are, for you to break into success, there is a point you must get on to where you take on the spirit of David because you must see Goliath" - (Excerpted by Odimegwu Onwumere, from an interview in Saturday Sun, February 18, 2012, by the Chairman/CEO of Brila FM, Larry Izamoje).
12th October, 2012.
Odimegwu Onwumere, Poet/Author, Media/Writing Consultant and Motivator, is the Coordinator, Concerned Non-Indigenes In Rivers State (CONIRIV); and Founder, Poet Against Child Abuse (PACA), Rivers State, Nigeria.