Successes by age…
Age 4…not peeing in your pants
Age 12…having close friends
Age 16…having a drivers license
Age 18…having sex
Age 35…having money
Age 50…having money
Age 60…having sex
Age 70…having a drivers license
Age 75…having close friends
Age 80…not peeing in your pants
The way Nigerians switched from Labour to ADC and then to NDC because of @PeterObi should be studied in universities. This man is going to become President eventually in a free and fair election.
The goal now should be ensuring that by any means necessary.
Wow.
World #1 Jannik Sinner defeats #3 Alexander Zverev 6-1, 6-2 in 56 MINUTES to win Madrid for the first time.
He becomes the first player to EVER win...
- 5 Masters 1000 in a row.
- The first 4 Masters 1000 of a season.
This is a 1000-gram iron bar. In its raw form, it’s worth around $100.
If it’s turned into horseshoes, its value rises to about $250.
If it’s made into sewing needles, its value jumps to roughly $70,000.
If it’s crafted into watch springs and gears, it can be worth around $6 million.
And if it’s transformed into precision laser components, like those used in lithography, its value can reach $15 million.
Your value is not defined only by what you are made of, but by how well you shape your potential into something extraordinary.
This Sunday, Jannik Sinner will play to complete hardcourt tennis at age 24:
🏆 Australian Open
🏆 US Open
🏆 ATP Finals
🏆 Canada
🏆 Miami
🏆 Cincinnati
🏆 Shanghai
🏆 Paris
⏳ Indian Wells
No one has ever done it before age 30.
Something I have come to realize about people is that the way you think about yourself, or more precisely the way you see things, is rarely the way others see them. You may be able to imagine an event, trace its possible consequences, and then decide against it because you have already walked the path of what may follow.
For many people, that capacity simply is not present. They act on the immediacy of the thought, without running it through that chain of consequence. And then we make the mistake of judging their actions using our own reasoning as the yardstick, forgetting that the process that restrained us does not exist in them.
I am in this bus, this typical husk of a Lagos bus, the kind that hisses, rattles and groans as it drags itself through the city’s unforgiving roads, and this driver has just helped a guy he clearly knows.
Now this man, this comic of a fellow who has been cracking everyone up with jokes about life as an agbero in Lagos since we started the journey, is no longer sitting idle. Instead of folding his hands and enjoying the ride, he has stepped outside and begun calling passengers, waving people in, shouting destinations, acting as though he has always been the conductor of this tired machine.
And as I watch him go about it, laughing, gesturing, pulling strangers toward the bus, I cannot help but think to myself: this is how life is supposed to be lived. When someone offers you help, when someone extends a small kindness in your direction, the honorable instinct is to search for some way, however small, to return the gesture. Yes, life is not a ledger in which every kindness must be immediately balanced, yet there is dignity in refusing to remain a passive beneficiary of another person’s goodwill.
A man with honor does not simply receive and relax into comfort; he looks around, searching for something he can do, anything at all, to make the burden of the one who helped him just a little lighter. And sometimes that repayment is nothing grand. Sometimes it is simply standing outside the door of a rattling bus under the sweltering Lagos sun, calling passengers into the vehicle of the man who has just helped you.
It’s easy to call Nigerian youths “lazy” or say they’re chasing free money until you actually sit down and do the math.
A job in Abuja offering ₦150k–₦200k sounds decent on paper. But after rent, transportation, food, bills, and basic survival? You’re left with almost nothing.
So when young people turn down these offers, it’s not entitlement but their reality.
The cost of living has quietly outpaced salaries, and many are simply choosing not to survive on wages that can’t sustain them.
This isn’t about unwillingness to work. It’s about refusing to struggle endlessly with no real progress.
@Ol0ye Part of the reason I like this app is the fact that someone could randomly just capture your life in a tweet, like they’ll encapsulate all your experiences and struggles just in a few paragraphs.