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Navigating this street called life?

How do we navigate this street called life? How do you meander through its ups and downs, its lefts and rights or its highs and lows?

Are you the spur-of-the-moment spontanious kinda person typically going with the flow? Or are you the let’s-wait-and-be-absolutely-sure-before-we-move kinda person?

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Success and Climbing up

I got thinking again this morning(how for do now?)…this time around its about the pressure we often put ourselves (and others) under to climb up ( the ladder of success of course)

We complicate it further by adding the rate at which you must climb and the timing under which it must be achieved to it. So its not just enough to have been seen to have “arrived”, you must have done so very rapidly and in quick successive movements, not so? Otherwise, you no be high-flier abi? Hype!

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Are you?

My first Snippet goes thus…

Are you..

          Afraid to Live, and afraid to Die?…..

I guess Dolly Parton has more to say in her song…

Dolly Parton – Afraid To Live And Afraid Of Dying

They say most anything you eat could hurt your health

Be careful what you drink, don’t harm yourself

And pollution in the air might make you sick

Makes you afraid to live, afraid that you might die too quick

Do the men that quote this danger really know? (that)

Life is a gift to be enjoyed and not to worry so

The biggest danger sign that we should know

Make sure we’re right with God, as through this world we go

We’re afraid to live ’cause we’re afraid of dyin’

And afraid to love the one we love, afraid they might be lyin’

We can’t enjoy life when they say each thing might bring an early grave

We’re afraid to live ’cause we’re afraid of dyin’

Do the men that quote this danger really know? (That)

Life is a gift to be enjoyed, why worry so?

The biggest danger sign that we should know

Make sure we’re right with God, as through this world we go

Make sure we’re right with God, as through this world we go

A Basket filled with Excuses….

I stumbled on this quote a few years ago and it stuck….”person wey no want do something go get one excuse or another why him no want do am” (or sumn like that). Anyways this is the pidgin version, if it doesn’t werk for you, you fit translate am to English. In fact am doing this post in pidgin English, so read on or get a translator. lol

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Unbelief or Credibility issues

I woke up this morning with a question on my mind, if i say to someone, “i don’t believe you”, who needs help? Is it me or the person who i should believe in. Ok, i’m rambling again but i know you love my ramblings…why else are you here lol. But seriously, i want to expand this thing that cropped up in my mind..

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All i wanna do is have some fun

All I wanna do is have some fun

I got a feeling I'm not the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun

I got a feeling I'm not the only one

….Sheryl Crow

Well, its kinda obvious by now, innit? I have a plan and its called FUN! FUN!! FUN!!! I like to work smart, work hard and play even harder.

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Time Flies II

This is meant to be a follow-up to the article …Time flies  http://www.abiolaalabi.com/2008/03/09/time-flies so please read it up first. We rounded off by asking what difference knowing how much time one has left will make to living a better life. I got a friend asking for the definition of Time (this has got me thinking to always remember to include definitions in my articles abi?). Anyhoo, I ran the word “Time” thru all reference books as I typed on MS Word and these two jumped at me,   Continue reading Time Flies II…

The monster called Lagos traffic …or the “enemy” called Fear Part 2

 This article is a continuation of The monster called Lagos traffic …or the “enemy” called Fear. I strongly recommend that you read the initial post to understand this post in full. I used the story of my paranoia and inertia on account of the dreaded traffic situation to illustrate how we get stuck in our present, failing to reach for the future.

What  I do.

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The monster called Lagos traffic or the “enemy” called Fear

It’s been about 5 weeks now since I relieved my driver of 6 months of his duties, I just got fed up with his juvenilish behaviour. This reduced me to self-drive and if you reside in Lagos, you will appreciate the situation I am currently facing better. Traffic is chaotic, maybe even more than before. The roads, No, ALL roads – Ikorodu road, Ozumba Mbadiwe, Alapere – Iyana Oworo – 3^rd mainland, are congested from A.M to P.M.  My legs ache and subsequently by extension, my whole body too on account of pressing down turtle every other minute, you all know the drill. I am trying to paint a picture here. Continue reading The monster called Lagos traffic or the “enemy” called Fear…