What do we call it? When a person’ happiness is quite essential to your own.
This is our typical world today – huge measure of insanity! Poverty has been licensed, disappointments are everywhere, people are steaming anger over someone or something, people are offended every day (irrespective of you being an offender or not). I walk on the streets, read papers, watch televisions, and engage in conversations; perversion of tongue, thoughts or action is the order of the day, people with paedophilia are the rulers and the most celebrated, the future of our children is seizing from being bright to being blur due to chronic misrepresentation of adulthood by our celebrities, we don’t even know who a role model is anymore and there is massive measure of hate. Hatred now comes in disguise; murder now comes in beautiful-seasonal clothing that you almost do not recognise it. Murder and hate is being revealed in our use of language, the way we run people down with the words of our mouth, in the way we prophesy evil, in our negativity, in our tit-for-tattiness; our tongue being our greatest tool of destruction likewise being our weapon of healing even before we pick up the knife. In our world today, wrong is being painted right just so that a painter can have a job to do and make some money. Just how do we not end up‘madder’ than the situation is already or than the people we criticize?
LOVE!
It is our healing balm. It is our way to victory. If we must solve the problems of our land, what we need is less paper work and more love. If we must solve the problems of marriages, education, security, lack, hate, poverty; love is what we need. In Zion where I come from, Love is an alternative word or expression for a Person. A person you embrace and become like such that your greatest description becomes ‘Love’.
A man I respect a lot, a person I describe as a synonym for ‘love’ – Sam Adeyemi once said that each person has a bit of madness in him but in order not be become as mad and insane as everyone around looks, you have to learn not to react to the insults and negativity the society brings your way but learn to respond in love. If we are busy judging and condemning the enormous level of hate in our society, we will have no time to love. Well, maybe become too bitter to love again.
With love, value for human life increases at a geometric progression and we begin to see human beings as the greatest resource mankind can ever be gifted with. Living and walking in love gives you a reason to learn, innovate, and dream. Little wonder the difficulty of having a Nigerian dream, we have not learnt to make other people’s happiness essential to our happiness because love is a foundational value anyone must have to dream and advance.
Fisayo ‘Check’ Odebode is a writer, public speaker, music addict and counsellor. She is the initiator of Check Counsel Nigeria (a people oriented organization that cares for/helps stabilize children and teenagers in relation to their stage in human development through counselling). You can email her at miispecial@yahoo.com or checkcounsel@gmail.com. You can also follow her @FisayoCheck on twitter.
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