One of the great tragedies of life is the paradox of wisdom and age. As you become wiser about life and the world, you have less time to apply it yourself. So you try to pass it down, but some things just can't be heard in youth. It only comes through the experience of living.
“When the citizens of a nation deem their most accomplished thieves as the most electable, they lose the right to complain when theft becomes their national creed”
—President Modibo Keita.
You cannot be sending people’s kids to the middle of nowhere in the name of NYSC when the country is very unsafe.
I’m surprised they haven’t scrapped it.
This sentence by Van Gogh hits hard:
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
lowkey to get the full tennis fan experience you need to support one player that’s really good, one player that’s always injured, and one random player that never wins anything but you still have hope for some reason