One idea that has revolutionized my thinking is this: you are allowed to not want things.
You can look at everything society tells you that you need to have and just be like, “Nope. I will not be participating.”
Tiping your office security N1k for buying your lunch, is not you doing him a favour. He earned it. If e easy, stand up from your seat and go get the food yourself. Calculate the financial cost of the stress of going the distance to get the food and back.
If you want to do him a favour, give him money for no reason. Someone would do you a favour, but you would see yourslf as the one doing them a favour because you earn higher than them and don't respect them.
If you send money to your colleague that does the same work with you and asked them to please get you lunch on their way back from wherever they were going, you see it as them doing you a favour because you respect them. You don't see it as a favour done to you when it is done by the office security or cleaner because you don't respect them. If you treat these people well and respect them, they will be happy to do things for you. You've become entitled to their help that you now expect them to use their money to fund your lunch.
My security does errands for me, and every errand comes with a tip. That is thank you for doing this because it is not his job. Favour is when I give him money for no reason which happens often or when he has special needs and makes a request and I give him money. You need to start respecting people as human beings, not by how much they earn. This thing is a common problem in our society.
Back to this post.
This post and the comment section, is an incontrovertible evidence that Nigerians are terrible people. Very evil mean spirited people. Because how are you justifying this nonsense?
A security man at your work place is your colleague. If you can treat your colleague like this because you earn higher, how are you treating the househelp you're paying with peanut and longsuffering?
Check all your ‘friendships’ that lasted the most..
You’d find out what kept it wasn’t finance/status/going out together and all
You’ll figure HONESTY kept the friendship more than anything else
You were simply HONEST about yourself with them, hence the real long-lasting bond.
Grace does not cancel discernment, and redemption does not erase history. Christianity teaches forgiveness, but forgiveness is not the same thing as automatic trust, access, or acceptance into people’s personal lives.
The problem today is that many people confuse salvation with immunity from consequences. A transformed life can be real, yet people may still struggle with the ripple effects of past decisions. That is simply reality.
At the same time, reducing the church to a “rehabilitation center for damaged people” is also dangerous because it suggests nobody can genuinely change. If Christianity truly believes in redemption, then transformation must remain possible, otherwise grace becomes mere theory.
The deeper issue is inconsistency. Society often romanticizes promiscuous men as “experienced,” while women carry permanent social penalties for similar behavior. That double standard is obvious.
A Christian stance should balance both truth and mercy:
people are not entitled to escape consequences, but neither should they be permanently chained to their worst moments if genuine repentance and transformation are evident over time.
Grace does not erase accountability, but accountability should not become eternal condemnation either.
I think it is impossible to fully understand other people’s reality. We often tend to reduce understanding to gender but that doesn’t cut it.
Example:
Two friends were one is heavenly pretty and the other is invisible as though her presence is inauspicious and brings with it a tragic foreshadowing.
It is impossible for the pretty one to understand how the other friend navigates life where you have to work hard to be noticed, to be taken serious and to have meaning because for her, people are infinitely patient, kinder to her and extending exaggerated chivalry. A life where you are always an afterthought in conversation and downplayed by others in comparison with other woke and your friends. A life where grace and patience is harder to come by because you don’t look good enough to worth their stress.
The not pretty friend cannot understand how the other one navigates life because she thinks everything is easy for her. But she can’t see that it is difficult where people see your beauty and not your intelligence and don’t care for it, where every affection is laced with salacious intentions, where everyone assumes you have love in abundance even though prospective suitors expect you to be taken by someone else, where your personal struggles are not taken seriously because they expect that a call will fix it.
Most times, we don’t see people as they are. We see them from where we stand and project through our tainted glasses.
Dear all,
Do not let privilege blind your sense of humanity and emotions. The fact that life worked out differently for you does not automatically make you more intelligent, more disciplined or more hardworking than those who are struggling.
Many people are fighting battles you know nothing about... lack of opportunities, unstable homes, financial hardship, discrimination, grief, illness and responsibilities they never asked for. Sometimes the only difference between success and struggle is access, timing, support or luck.
Be humble enough to recognize that your current position is not solely the product of your effort. There are people just as talented, educated, creative and hardworking who simply did not have the same opportunities, connections or safety nets.
So before you judge someone for where they are in life, choose empathy. Speak kindly. Show compassion. Respect people regardless of their status. A little understanding can restore dignity to someone silently carrying the weight of the world.
Never allow comfort to erase your compassion. The true measure of character is not how you treat people above you, but how you treat those who have less, know less or are struggling to survive.
Stay grateful. Stay grounded. Stay human.
Be guided and good morning. 🙏
Those in livestock farming know that the pig is the only animal in the farm that does not work.
All it does is eat and sleep all for free. The pigs look at the farmer and thinks, “This farmer loves me so much. I get to eat all these free food”
But what the pig doesn’t know is that there’s nothing like free food. The food is to fatten the pig so that the day the pig gets to its fattest point is the day it dies
This is the same way finance companies treat you when they are offering you credit and loans you didn’t ask for. The endless cycle of interests can sink you.
I am in the system. I should know this. Be wise.
Somebody said “The love you receive from someone who knows how to be alone is the most sincere there is.
A solitary soul loves you by choice, not out of a need for company.” and that’s so true.
Any virus known previously to scientists in the lab that later becomes transmissible to man, was deliberately taken from the lab to be transmitted to man.
This is my position