It’s been a rainy day, flood everywhere,
it seemed we need canoes in Warri as cars were swimming in the hungry flood and
some will say it’s a weather for…who? Two? Who dey really deceive us? Well, let
me move up from that. I realized that irrespective of the rain and flood that
left some with swimming pools as bedrooms, a sad reality that we must check, no
one was stopped from living his/her life. Market women still went to the
market, bankers went to the bank, and even a hospital in a flooded
neighbourhood was open for operations. This just gave me the confident that
nothing is big or strong enough to stop us from achieving our goals, come rain
come shine, we are indefatigable with an unquenchable spirit to live life to its
fullest.
Thinking about what people commonly say,
I see a mind-set, a pattern that has stunted our growth as individuals, society
and a nation at large. Rumours do not only easily spread fast but are widely
accepted as norm while truth is contested and disputed without a second
thought. Words play a powerful role in creating our reality but that isn’t my
focus for today. Who really told us that all we believe is true? Who called us
‘Third World Country’ and how or why do we believe and now call ourselves such?
“Warri no dey carry last” doesn’t mean Warri now comes first, sometimes it
makes us remain living marginal live as we say it ‘at all at all naim bad
pass’.
So we can at least wake up, move around
and do little things no matter how insignificant they are just like the 15yr
vulcanizer who inflated my tyres, yet we complain things are hard. Haven't you
realized if they were that hard we wouldn't even get up or attempt anything?
Personally, I would say that thinking is what's hard not doing things. I quite
agree that the economy isn't as friendly as it should be and times are
seemingly harsh but in this same hard times and with the tale of recession,
people are still making money. Who is lying to our minds?
We easily see the restiveness of the
youth and conclude theirs as a closed case when most have not attempted. I and
some friends visited a community and shared some food we gathered from people,
we were amazed at the reception from the said ‘unchangeable area boys’. Sitting
with them, I heard their small challenges which if we attend to can help us channel
their strength positively but we’ve been deceived. ‘Oh, if you nor use back
door your racket no go click’, a popular mind-set that has made us mediocre
with nothing of international standard, which has kept us in the backroom from
progressive relevance. What happened to the ingenuity of our people and pursuit
of excellent standards? Who says that our conditioning is limited to the
popular route which obviously empowers self with no community impact? It is
easy to run for powers, from all fetish sources that have no life of its own so
as to gain wealth, public adoration and respect when those powers cannot
command common sense to know that power is to serve and not to make others
serve you. Who has been deceiving us?
Have we tuned our ears to woeful tales
branded with fear that depletes our strength to do great? Have we believed so
much lies that we doubt the truth of our potentials? Have we accepted status
quo that we fail to realize we create and determine status by what we see and
do? What informed us that when we see development we immediately see
impossibilities? Why do we think when someone does some good it isn’t
sustainable? Don’t we realize these mind-set has deprived us the beauty our
potentials can create and the joy of the benefit of our labour? Who is
deceiving us? Why is it difficult to accept that we can live corrupt free
lives? How can we pose to be big and great people yet believe small lies? Is it
our fears or those we listen to? Do you know “they said” is a baseless and
uncertain word that has created false realities in our lives? We have limited
ourselves by the weak and failed imaginations of those who went before us.
While others saw giants in the promise land, Joshua and Caleb saw milk and
honey. What are we listening to?
Walk away from naysayers, if anyone says
it’s not doable, tell them to give you proof founded on an indefatigable spirit
and sincere motive with a heart open to learning international standard and
principles. If they can’t run for your life and pursue that amazing unusual
thought. Let the disbelief of other fire you up to explore your possibilities.
Warri is razz, right? Visit Shoprite, Gemstone and others and see otherwise.
Who believed we will have such an experience for Wafferians after Kingsway
& Leventis went away. I challenge you to listen to only what pushes you to
great accomplishment and dare to keep on researching and experimenting your
idea. Just do it, it will work if not as you want it maybe better. Don’t be
deceived, #WarriWorks, Wafferians love progress and development, they are
welcoming and full of creative energy. We are not only a comic town but We Are
Rare Resourceful Individuals (W.A.R.R.I)
If Warri nor work for you, ask yourself
wetin you don work for Warri and leave am for those when wan work am
#WarriWorks
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Chunu Tejiri Jerry
fondly called UnusualTeajay is an Ideas Developer, Brand Strategist &
Social Entrepreneur with over 15years focus on Teenage Development. He has a global passion that seeks the mental
awakening and value re-orientation of young Africans. He serves as the Creative
Director at Dotbob Creative Solution and Team Head at IMAGINIT Media Resources,
initiators of #iStepUpAfrica, #DecemberCookOut #TeenNation #N100Challenge and
other social projects which won him an award as one of Africa’s Emerging
Leaders. He currently is the Programs Manager for reading House Africa, a
member of Nigeria Economic Summit Group Youth Initiative & Commonwealth
Youth Council Nigeria Team.
Reach Teajay
Twitter @UnusualTeajay
Facebook @ChunuTeajay
Email: unusualteajay@gmail.com
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