There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women -- of free mothers.
- Robert G. Ingersoll.
#BringBackOurGirls
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Saturday, 24 May 2014
Friday, 23 May 2014
MOTIVES
Succeessful people
are regular people. Some had the same
amount of opportunities while others had none.
Their similarities
are not hidden, yet difficult for some to see. Some see their successes as a
carbon copy while others copy their successes to the carbon.
Ideas are different
inspirations given on different platforms for differnt reasons to satisfy
different purposes. Two ideas may look the same but none is totally like the
other except copied and pasted. Thus, inspirations or ideas left unactivated
will go away; Perhaps the law of gravity.
Our ability to
receive and work with any idea is expantiated by the tale of the sower; only
those who receive the dreams, develop the passsion and worked at it have the similarities
seen in succesful people.
I once asked in
ignorance, are some born successful? Yes they are born,and re-created themselves
for a reason.
I know beyond doubt
that being succesful is not a priviledge, it is not a gift, it is not a joke, but
it is the rightful application of the difference between the non- succseful and
the succesful.
This simlarity or
difference as the case maybe is called - MOTIVE.
The motive for
working that idea when no one else believed in you, when all circumstances seem
to deprived you of sanity.
I work hard day and night to see that girls and women have enough
inspirations, knowledge and motivation to be able to change their lives for the
best. It is a service for me. It is a
job for others and if done by two people our motives are different and our
result will definetely be different.
What drives what you do? What is the underlying reason? A banker with
enough customer service aptitiude to draw people to come back again- It is not
her bank, but maybe one day it will be the basis of her idea to see that people
are made happy wherever they are offered great services. To be succesful is not
a day’s job. It is a continious raise of the motives that drove you into
wanting to be succesful. If you raise your heels every time with the right motives,
it might just be the beginning of success for you.
Dare to be successful; stand up everyday and do that which you should
do, perhaps situations maynot be the best reasons for doing that but your heels
should be tinged with enough aptitude, resolutions, humility, assertiveness, sassyness,
knowledge, optimism, prudence, creativity, smartness, confidence and tenacity
to work with your motives. It’s a brand new day each morning, perhaps your
heels knows that, perhaps not.
#yoursuccessmotives.
Remember...Believe...Knowledge...Opportunities (Pink Ambition)
(C) Funmi Akerele
Monday, 5 May 2014
Bring Back Our Girls.
The most unbearable pain of a mother is the pains of a
missing child. The wails of a parent, the disgust of a nation, the cries of a
people, the travails of different classes, the pandemonium of a number of
voices, the wilderness criers, the town shakers and the silent weepers; the
shame of a government without a voice.
I have watched too many American movies and have seen the real
performances of its government when a citizen is abducted. Not once, not twice, was a group of captured
soldiers left to their fate without the faith and actions of its government
fighting to bring them back.
In most cases there are assumptions; assumptions are not
certainties, yet uninhibited assumptions could be a certainty. If I assume that
a government left 234 of its army for over 2 weeks to the fate of terrorism,
people who plague and look for undesereved attention, and then I can assume
that the soldiers in this saga are more than ransome. Innocent people the
government easily left unattended to. It would be fatal for the government to
overlook the urgency of this saga.
Assumptions are strong; they form the basis for some truths.
They can be formed, founded, traced and identified. They may be certainty or
uncertainty, yet they are pointers...
The best government in the world does not give up its
citizens to the slaughter and wait till the outcry of its people get unbearably
high octave before answers are given. There is no romance without a relationship;
there is no government without people. The understanding of such facts makes us
wonder and assume if indeed our soldiers were not actually meants for the
gallows in which they found themselves.
The exremist have given us a slap and the dangers of
non-retaliation or no attempt will be a reoccurence of more dangerous sagas. Senseless
though we may call their fanaticsm, but it was not without sense for the
organisers as this was done with a purpose and according to the plan it was
meant for. It is indeed clear that there is a reason. Nothing is really nothing
unless you would rather be doing something else.
We face no more serious decisions in Nigeria today than the
decisions to go after our abducted girls. Do we need a debate to ask for the
whereabout of humans? Possibly a roundtable discussion, strategies and actions,
but a debate of no action is a sail for another direction.
There is no confusion in our assumptions, no uncertainty in
our feelings, no discrepancies in our belief of injustice meted upon the
handling of the matters of the abduction.
Yet ...our girls are there.
It is a possible assumption that our girls would ask
themselves what their fate is in a country where their fellows are carted away
in the middle of the night? .The girls yet to come and even those who don’t
understand what is going on presently and who will assume that it is possible
to be kidnapped by some demented association in the mid of the night while
studying for examination and carted away to be made sex slaves, wives of bandits, slaves for lives and earn an undeserved
future of terrorism, daily rape, assault, beatings and also be made witnesess
to an untowards an unreasonalbe belief for a diluted religious beliefs.
Accordingly to Tony Blair in his speech on the London
bombings “the extremist mission is cleverly aimed at their target audience. Their
cause is not founded on an injustice. It is founded on a belief, one whose
fanatiscm is such that can’t be moderated. It can’t be remedied. It has to be
stood up to.
Omar Nelson Bradley rightly posited when he said “unless one
values the lives of his soldiers and is tormented by their ordeal he is unfit
to command”.
One man’s tears; one woman’s wail make assumptions powerfull...
they form the basis to the truth, for in the senate of grasses two elephants
fight in a forest, the carcas of the defeated is just what the grasses await.
Then the assumptions again; to what or whose gain is the
terrorism in this country?
Assumptions are strong... stronger than what we are fed with.
But our consolation is that all the people of the world are
in partner with our interest and our cries for our daughters to be brought
back, and for our part as a people we see clearly that unless justice is done
for our girls, the injustice of the terrorist beliefs with politcal and
governmental unmedicated actions will ruin our land.
#BringBackOurGirls.
(C) Funmi Akerele
Remember...Believe...Knowledge...Opportunities (Pink
Ambition)
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