@Dr_Pharouk " I can never allow you touch my woman like this" shey the woman is senseless and mindless to not know how to draw lines? especially when she knows she has a man. What am I even saying? with or without a man sef there should be lîmit to these things. Why not use a woman instead.
Your mother fried akara and roasted corn on the roadside to send you to university so that you will have a far better future and never have to one day sit on the same roadside to fry akara and send your own children to school.
She did it for you,
So that you will not have to do the same.
It is bad enough that the cursed lunatic politicians in power are wishing this for you, it is worse that you wish this for yourself.
If your greatest aspiration in life after a university degree is to sell akara on coastal highway after your mother sold akara on the roadside to send you to school, your entire education was a waste and her efforts are in vain.
Again, your mother did it for you,
So that you will not have to do the same.
You need to see the joy on olodos' faces when a very academically sound person doesn't succeed in life. They relish it. It's almost as if it gives them more reasons to talk down on education and intelligence.
When we were graduating, after I finished as the top student in my class, many of my coursemates were really eager to see how I would turn out. In fact, I would always hear them gossiping: "No be by Best Graduating Student. To make am for life no be by acada. Street na military. We go see."
I'm glad I turned out really well. Even most of those who went to Ghana for "updates" after school and eventually resorted to fraud can't measure up to my accomplishments. Till today, many of them still randomly call me and jokingly ask, "Senior man, you just dey chop dey go. You no wan give men update na!"
Deep down, they genuinely believe I must be secretly involved in fraud. This is the society we live in, where many young people have come to believe that you can't succeed legitimately, and that every young man who is doing well for himself must be involved in fraud. Even many elderly people and police officers aren't exempt from this line of thinking.
I haven't seen a country that is trying so hard to make education unattractive like ours.
"School na scam."
"No be by BSc. You get BTC?"
"Education is the key to success. Oya, use the key start Benz na 😂."
"Lecturer pack 1999 Camry, student don pack Lexus beside am."
If we continue this way, in a few years, there will be nothing left of our educational system. We are so money-centred that we don't even realize education can be an end in itself and not necessarily just a means to an end.
Everything has become, "How much do you have in your account?" or "Use your intelligence buy Benz na."
This is one of the reasons it really hurts me to see highly intelligent and brilliant people end up poor. I'm always rooting for academically sound people to succeed because I genuinely want people, especially young people, to see that you can make it legitimately through hard work and academic excellence.
Any society where only the olodos become financially successful while the brighter minds, the ones who believe in due process, continue to struggle is a society that is bound to fail.
You must get used to money.
I will always advocate that people should get used to money.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re poor, rich, or wealthy. Get used to money and see it for what it is: a tool and a means to an end.
When you’re used to money, it loses its power to control you.
You stop becoming a slave in servitude to the highest bidder or compromising your values just because a certain amount is on the table.
Being comfortable with money gives you the freedom to say “no” to things that go against your principles.
It also teaches gratitude. You appreciate what you have, while remaining content with your current circumstances and working towards more.
Being used to money also teaches you financial management; which is the mastery of money to a reasonable extent.
Get used to money.
@bted0354@taiwo_junzi He didn't actually say Peller per se, it was a figurative expression for the likes of that behaviour. nobody is after Peller or his money. Not going to school does not make you senseless
What Ycee did in this “olodo uprising” conversation is simply the use of synecdoche.
A figure of speech where a part represents the whole, or the whole represents a part.
Was he wrong to use Peller as a representative of the “olodo” population? Maybe.
But the representative sampled is still a subset of the larger problem.
And it boils down to our collective mindset as a society, where money is the ultimate yardstick for determining value.
We platform niche nuisances and reward them with social currency for being themselves.
When you speak against them, you hear lines like:
“But i get money pass you”
“They’re richer than you and I.”
Eventually, these nuisances become the accepted standard by which value is measured.
Nothing destroys a society faster than elevating mediocrity to a position of authority.
Just look at what we have in Aso Rock right now.
We are all olodos in uprising.
@Teeniiola Yes before you have children there need to be preparedness. But that's a discussion for another time. But hearing her speaks, She sound pained and I think there's more to it.
@khanofkhans11_ It was very slow. The detectives barely did anything. I actually watched because of Wes Gibbins bcos of his role in how to get away with murder