LIVING...FOR DUMMIES: VARYING SHADES OF VALUES.

Similar to the scenario which surrounded Robert Kiyosaki in his fine Rich Dad, Poor Dad series, my friend's dad summarized a simple but critical text for her to carefully meditate upon which read thus, "Grow before you glow".
This simple text apparently exhibits the rhyme feature out of coincidence even if it incites poetic intelligence in some way. The sentence also probably has the tendency to summarize the entirety of human behavioral pattern in direct proportion to the character of our present immediate environment.
As the saying goes "talent is not enough, one must also have a talent for luck", luck itself does not come easy, it happens when preparedness coincides with opportunity.

   

Its funny how life is simple yet complicated. An example is how scientists tell us that air is a mixture of gases, blood vessels have millions of cells, there also exists helpful bacteria, the interesting mystery of the human healing process, imperativity of interaction and not to make little.
Perhaps our population explosion is but for one cogent reason, so that we all can take a stand and try to do our little part in the great endeavour to make the world a better place.

An important recipe for a better place is the instill of values in the younger ones, by style or force, else the kid thinks its right for him to get a second cone of ice cream as well as eating cake and even having a lot more to go with it. Even the holy book advises us not to spare the rod else the child gets spoilt and heads for only God knows where (not pleasant by the way).

Youths of the new millennium are most probably going to sell their souls to be popular, have money and have a million followers on twitter. A teenager will wear expensive apparel which he couldn't even afford in the first place, and still brag about it. In fairness to them, they have a whole lot of role models to take after. The godfathers that misappropriate national funds which disorientates their self concept and causes them to alter the natural eco-system causing a spill-over and negative multiplier effect on the immediate environment.
The aftermath is that goods get over-priced especially in a non-producing economy which has dilapidated infrastructure and restive, unemployed youth that have no genuine guidance, but rather blindly and desperately seek direction.



So what then is the solution? honestly i do not expressly have an answer, but i doubt if we really need to re-invent the wheel.
Many nations have got it right even if they are not perfect, at least they told themselves the truth and they stuck by the principles to create a fine model of a systematic structure. Sounds vague? lets use USA as our model then. Despite their controversies, we still unconsciously consider them world power, the land of the free where even terrorists feel safe even to fully express themselves.



Nigeria to some point has not moved as far as we wish because sabotage is the watch word of many high placed office holders, but even if the entire infrastructure is in place, who are the people to optimally use them?
They cannot be well maintained neither can they be sustained because it will all seem like a waste as the citizens have not been adequately taken care of and given a sense of belonging to guard the nation's property with faith and loyalty.
Would you give a monkey a new shirt?