HUMANITY

Created just through a breath,

Sculptured by the untrained architect,

Man came into existence.

Like a bird soaring in the sky,

He was esteemed by the most high,

To man was given all made substance,

Did he not for a fruit lose them and cursed to be mortal?

And so he continues on this path,

Still has he declined to from the crooked route depart,

Throwing blames at the creator's face,

Not  considering the gain hidden behind his pain,

Treading on the regretful lane,

Short sighted to see the shelter for the rain.

Chasing the hall of fame,

Humanity had forgotten life is not a game,

On this stage he plays,

Scarcely does he let God assume his place.

__Nimisire

This is for the tears I should not have had to shed.

(Disclaimer: This article might annoy you, especially if you have issues with people speaking the so-bitter truth. You really don't have to read it.)

    This is for the tears I should not have had to shed.

   This would have started on a quite different note if had not attended yesterday's Sunday school or if the topic had not centered on being righteous as a believer.           

   We talked about Justice and our leaders being corrupt. During the discussion, a man stood up and said 'I think we should kill them all; we ought to kill those corrupt leaders, corruption is like a virus, just like HIV, we can't take it off from them, we've been praying for them all since 1960's'
I looked back in utter surprise and I saw few heads turn backwards too; we all were surprised, I am pretty sure everyone thought he was crazy, yeah he was, but in a nice way; he had a point.
This is not about yesterday's class at church, nah,  but it's got a lot to do with being righteous, being a responsible citizen, being disciplined and being just.

    Yesterday again, I saw the two short videos my friend shared with me at the library on Saturday, one of them was a TED talk by Briony Goffin. She talked about writing being an act of tribute to moments we captured and never want to be forgotten. So , to the tears I should not have had to shed at the exam centre today, I write:

Queue-Shunting: The act of moving into the place you ought/deserve not to be on a queue. (My definition)
Did you smile? Oh shook your head at the lame definition I gave ?
Actually, that compound word like every other act of indiscipline has quite a number of effect on people, bad ones.
That word is a madness, just like I told few people today ' madness is when something abnormal is treated as normal'.
And we all see queue-shunting as normal, just like we see being cheated, abused, used, and leaders being corrupt as 'normal' .

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    You got to the place, there was a queue,  a long one it was, you wouldn't want to be the not-so-sharp Nigerian, so, you saw a friend, oh he's at the front, you said
   ''guy how far na? abeg, I wan enter ooh, this queue too long''
He wanted to be nice to you, after all,
' people don dey enter from front since morning'
so he allowed you to stay in front of him and the queue became longer in the wrong way; from the front!

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  You have a lot to do today, you so want to write this exam on time, so you got to the exam centre and there was an ugly lengthy queue
'Me I no feel go back as I dey' you thought to yourself, so you decided to do what most people do to a queue ; molest it's purpose and suffer those at the back by entering from the front, thereby making it longer, again, in the wrong way.

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   You've been on the queue for so long, people have been entering from the front, you were pushed, you pushed back, you even almost fell, but you didn't. The queue seems not to be moving at all, so, to the girl behind you who has been screaming
   "Ha , these guys are the reason Nigeria will never get better. Eh, Please, tell those at the front to stop letting people enter, please, most of us have been here since past ten"
  You say,
   "Oh girl, if you can't beat them, you join them"
you bid her bye and leave to enter from the front and make the queue longer, again in the wong way.
She watches you leave with disappointment printed on her face, she thought you were different.

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Is that normal?
Is that right?
Do you even ever think about those who persevere to remain on the spot they've been, the right spot they should be?
You victimize them every time you 'enter from the front' , exactly the same way our corrupt leaders victimize us, So what ? Are we not hypocrites then? We castigate those leaders, nail them to the cross of our tongues while we are no different from them.
  Today I was victimized, just like most people who persevered to remain at the right spot on the queue at the exam centre today and I stood for hours so long that my back became stiff, my eyes were red, at a point I was really annoyed, later it was replaced with hurt and I cried.
I should not have had to cry, I was doing the right thing, and I should not have had to suffer for it, but I did, really did, I paid in a hard way.
   what has gone wrong with Nigerians? Why is it so hard to do something right? Why is it so hard to treat 'abnormal' as 'not-normal' ?
This is why Nigeria will never get better! (It's not a curse, it's the truth)
  Even something so small as queue-shunting (which is most times overlooked )is a reason Nigeria will never get better.


I might not have written that the best way as a writer, but I wrote it straight from my heart, out of hurt and pain.

NOTE:
I am not trying to portray  myself as being 'righteous'(many people actually stand up for the what is right as well and you can make that decision too).

Even if you are the last man standing, as long as it's for the true, right and just, keep standing.

Like I always say, I am just a voice in the market. I'm not expecting this post to change you but I know you saw some truth in it, some so-bitter-truth and you can't wait to see me do something not-so-right ,huh ? Ikr (smile)(smirk)

_Nimisire
3rd AUG 2015