@Ayemileto@August778@LegendaryJoe 😂😂
I used to think when people say there are deranged people who supports this APC government are on Twitter are false, I never knew I would meet them.
That money wey dem give u go soon finish, I go come remind you who's the dumb person.
People will err. People will change. People will disappoint you. Some will hurt you, and some will walk away. These are not merely unfortunate possibilities; they are realities of human relationships. You cannot build your entire emotional stability around the assumption that the person you love will never become the person who hurts you.
You should be able to survive the discovery that someone you loved has become someone you can no longer love in the same way. You should be able to accept that a beautiful experience has reached its end without interpreting its ending as the destruction of your own life.
Don't say I did not do anything for you.
Permit me to use this medium to tell the human race that this is genuinely the best time for every human to train their heart against the idea of love and "forever" with a particular person.
Nobody is "your person." Soulmates are a myth. "Forever" is an illusion. You cannot have anybody forever.
The attraction that happens between you and people is a product of time, phase, and space. And time changes, phases fade, and space evolves—if not for you, then for them.
To have someone forever is to remain unswept by these tides of change. It is to remain their favourite experience amidst a new job and that one colleague, a new city, a new financial milestone, a new ideology and worldview, an evolved emotional state, and a curated social media timeline. What are the chances?
What are the chances that it is you they still want after a promotion at work and improved accessibility to people of high status in their industry? What are the chances that it is you they'd still want after attaining financial independence, becoming able to travel between cities and across the world, and being exposed to options you can never stand against? After they exit the life stage where they were just lonely and miserable? After achieving stability in life and becoming able to consume ideologies on social media that do not validate their relationship dynamics with you? What are the chances?
What are the chances that you can stand against all these moving parts forever?
You see, there has never been a time in human history when humans have had so many "distractions" as they do today. Social and economic endeavours, relationships, and faith practices have, due to the fast pace of the world today, become distractions from one another. Engagement in one becomes a distraction from the other. And the time we live in has made each of these "distractions" elemental, necessary, and important.
What are the chances that, in that person's distributed attention towards all these "distractions", you remain their favourite distraction forever? That your relevance will not, at some point, slip from their grip? What guarantee do you have? That you're special? Okay, bro.
Now, none of this is an argument against falling in love. It is not an invitation to avoid emotional connections, become inaccessible, or approach every human relationship with suspicion. By all means, fall in love. Be vulnerable. Be affectionate. Make memories. Allow yourself to experience the beautiful things that human connection has to offer.
But train your heart against attachment to the idea of forever.
Learn to live in the moment, and for the moment, when the moment gives you someone worth experiencing. Enjoy the person without making a lifetime contract with an experience that may only be passing through your life. Learn to appreciate what someone brings into your life without making their continued presence a condition for your own happiness.
Do not erase yourself in the pursuit of permanence. Do not abandon your interests, ambitions, friendships, convictions, and individuality because you are trying to become indispensable to someone.
You must learn to love someone without making them the custodian of your entire emotional existence. To be able to love and still have yourself. To be able to give without losing your sense of proportion. To be able to enjoy someone's presence without becoming terrified of their absence.
And, perhaps most importantly, learn to love while it is worth it, and detach when it no longer serves you. Not because you never cared, but because caring about someone should not require you to abandon your responsibility to yourself.
People will err. People will change. People will disappoint you. Some will hurt you, and some will walk away. These are not unfortunate possibilities; they are realities of human relationships. You cannot build your entire emotional stability around the assumption that the person you love will never become the person who hurts you.
Well said..
The discouragements that came after previous elections has made people lack the trust to continue. Some of us travel to different states to vote, but not getting a fair results makes us lose interest.
May God help us..!
The US just finished their midterm elections, and the way it played out says a lot when you put it next to how we do elections in Nigeria.
In America, voters turned out in big numbers. More than 60 million people voted early, before the actual election day.
On the day itself, things ran mostly smoothly. Results started coming in the same night. States count their own votes, media call the races based on the numbers, and even the president’s party took heavy losses in places they usually win easily.
People were angry about the cost of living and other everyday problems, and they used their votes to check the people in power halfway through the term. The losers mostly accepted the results and moved on.
Now look at Nigeria.
Our last general election in 2023 had one of the lowest turnouts we’ve seen; only about 27% of registered voters bothered to show up.
Many people stayed home because they didn’t trust the process or felt their vote wouldn’t count.
INEC promised that BVAS and the IReV portal would make things transparent and reduce rigging. Instead, the presidential results had major upload problems while other results went up.
There were logistics failures, late openings, long queues, and cases of violence or intimidation in some areas.
Everything happens once every four years. There’s no real halfway check on the people in power the way the Americans have with midterms.
So what can we do differently?
First, make voting easier. Early voting or more flexible options would help a lot. Right now many people can’t leave work or travel far on election day, and the voting window is short. When voting is hard, turnout stays low.
Second, fix the technology so it actually works and results go up in real time for everyone to see. When people can watch the numbers come in from their polling units without mystery delays, trust goes up. When the system fails at the most important moment, people assume the worst.
Third, we should seriously look at midterm elections for the National Assembly. Right now the president and lawmakers all get four years with almost no national check in between.
A midterm would force politicians to answer for their performance on food prices, security, jobs, and electricity before the next full election. It keeps them closer to the people.
Fourth, campaigns need to focus more on real issues that affect daily life and less on tribe and religion. In the US midterms, voters punished the party in power over the economy.
When people vote based on whether their lives got better or worse, leaders have to deliver.
Finally, we need stronger protection for voters and officials so people feel safe, and we need leaders who accept clear results instead of turning every election into endless court drama.
Trust dies when people believe the outcome was decided before the votes were counted.
None of this is magic. The Americans didn’t get perfect elections overnight. They built systems that make it easier to vote, harder to hide results, and normal for the people in power to face consequences midway.
We can do better too if we stop treating election day like a one-off event and start treating the process like something that has to earn people’s confidence every single time.
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Usually I value my emotions a lot that I don't allow myself experience an emotionally distressed state caused by someone, again. I won't give you that opportunity or space to repeat it again.
@_shola__ You can't be in a relationship with a man and sex-starve him all in the name of not wanting it to be transactional.
If he's a loyal person who focuses on you, you should be gladly making out with him and seeing it like your own enjoyment and not for him alone.
@maxnonso Nah..
Once a guy attains a certain level of luxury, he seeks to marry and start a family.
Men are not like that.
Don't conflate women to men in terms of luxury, please.