ANTI-PEACE: A SOCIETAL MISSILE!
Brethren, greetings to you all. Here I’m or we’re, again; ensuring to win more souls as usual just as we were directed to stride. I sincerely pray that today would be better, and greater too as we all are eagering waiting to embrace unquantifiable moment of euphoria or bonquets in our divine vineyards.
I wish to begin with some facts; so follow me. Nicholas James Vujicic (male), a Serbian Australian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs has currently gained a global recognition in his day-to-day professional stride. In the same vein, Steven Wonder (male), a world renowned American sound producer and musical artiste was born totally blind. On the other hand, Bethany Meilani Hamilton (female), an American professional surfer known for surviving a shark attack in which her left arm was bitten off. And having overcomed the injury, amazingly she ultimately returned to professional surfing. Take note; surfing is the sporting/activity of riding on top of a big wave while standing/lying on a special board. Also, the last on my list but not the least; Lizzie Velasquez (female), a 23-year old notable author, inspirational orator, senior majoring in communications at Texas State University in San Marcos, U.S.A who has given more than two hundred (200) workshops on embracing uniqueness, dealing with bullies and overcoming obstacles was born with a medical condition so rare that just two other people in the whole world are thought to possess it. She has no adipose tissue and cannot create muscle, store energy or gain weight to an extent that she has zero percent body fat and weighs just sixty (60) pounds. When she was in high school, she was dubbed “The world’s ugliest woman” and in the comments on YouTube, viewers addressed her as “it” and “monster” and also encouraged/advised her to kill herself but on the contrary, she remained steadfast.
Apart from the above facts, there’re other more touching/devastating ones taking place across the globe; yet most of us whom are able-bodied still live in the past or are adamant about reality. Nevertheless, let’s ride on!
Our topic for today reads, “Anti peace” which I personally tagged as a societal missile. Let me commence with the concise definition of a missile based on the context of this edition. A missile is a weapon that moves for long distances through the air and explodes when it reaches its target. In a shorter text, a missile can also be expressed as anything that’s thrown as a weapon.
Few days ago while perusing one of the national dailies, I learnt that a certain young man killed his girl friend over her refusal to ‘make love’ or have sex with him. The other fateful day, I also came across another shocking news on the social media, facebook precisely which reads, “A man poisoned his wife over barrelness.” As if that was the end; the subsequent day I got a more embarrassing one still on social media that a man was caught having sex with a goat. Coupled with a similar piece which arrived at my humble desk that same day that a certain married woman in one of the countires abroad confessed that she deliberately decided not to make babies in her matrimony out of her personal pleasure while deceiving her husband that her misfortunes were mere miscarriages.
Apart from the above experiences or observations, millions of similar or more barbaric ones have been existing for ages, whilst thousands of them are likely to come up soonest. This wicked generation!
I put it up to you that the root cause of all these inimical and iniquitous occurences constituting anti-peace is nothing but selfishness. Yes, self-centredness which I’ve known to be a deadly societal canker has been longing to render our respective societies useless or incapacitated. Take a look at the various sectors; political, social, economic, educational and what have you, you will see for yourself that the aforementioned syndrome, anti peace which remains the sole product of human selfishness has almost ruined mankind’s divine progress here on earth.
Presently, almost everyone is concerned with his/her individual satisfaction. Nobody cares anymore how his talent or day-to-day stride would benefit his immediate surrounding or the people around him. If not, how can someone begotten by a woman ever dream of or imagine using his mother for ritual all in the name of ‘money making’?
What is actually happening to us; have we grown banannas or something; why can’t we use our respective talents to change the world for good; can’t we coexist as one indivisible element regardless of our place of origin, race, political affiliations, social and religious beliefs?
To be candid; if we’ve been sleeping, it’s high time we woke up else, these fathomless evil acts of ours shall pluck our two precious eyes in no distant time. For crying out loud, enough of this incessant bane. Think about it!
COMR. FRED NWAOZOR
Social analyst & activist
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