Ruminations… BY AGBA JALINGO

We buy expensive air conditioners, but sleep under duvets to keep us warm when the ACs are on.

We order hot food, then fan it to become cold and suitable for eating.

We pray for summer sunlight, and use sun shades and creams to avoid sun burns.

We pray for winter and end up wearing hoods and sweaters to stay warm.

We pray for night time to come so our bodies can sleep and rest from the day’s toil, yet we seek every means to light up and illuminate our homes and isles and cities, when the day time is gone.

We pray for longer life, even when terminally ill, yet complain about the vicissitudes of life.

Most people in the world strive everyday to lead pious lives; aiming to exit this life and go to a paradise where there is no suffering or turmoil, yet death, the only path which leads there, scares all of us like an absurd goblin.

These ironies are deeply woven into the crucible of our daily existence and most unfortunately, we hardly notice them as we race through the maze of life.

But it is evidence of the unsung fact that not many of Earth’s humans know exactly what they want, both in their daily toils and in their supplications to the cosmic.

Hence, Thomas Edison summed it all up by scripting that only about five percent of people on Earth do their thinking by themselves. The rest rely on what others have thought, written down or researched, to draw their conclusions, even without knowing that, that is what is happening.

And this includes even those who actually think that they are doing their own thinking by themselves. This is because original thought is one of the most difficult things to proffer.

Which category do you think you belong?

Complements of the season.

Yours sincerely,

Citizen Agba Jalingo, a journalist and rights activist, writes in from Lagos State.

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