Today, I had a beautiful sendforth party and a thoughtful gift from my team.
Goodbyes are hard, but they are temporary.
I am thankful for teammates that bring meaning to work.
Day: May 2, 2021
A sad reality
Some days hurt in ways that cannot be explained.
Cue 123 – 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
2005 Stanford Commencement Address
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
State of the Nation
Even if you ignore the news for its bias to sensationalism, pay attention to your environment and see the changes for yourself.
Look into your extended family and see how many graduates are struggling to find a job, and as they venture into any hustle, entrenched official and unofficial hurdles aim to kill them. At least 5 million youths out of job. Something will give.
People feel unsafe in the hands of those who should ensure their safety. They got tired of being harrassed and killed by security operatives and fought back with #EndSARS. This revealed the soft underbelly of our security architecture. The politicians could not see beyond past entitlements and understand that the future, represented by the youths, was revolting.
Education and health care are in such a downward spiral, investing in either has become a sunk cost – money in with no value out.
Opportunists have seen the weaknesses and are exploiting it in dispersed pockets using a predictable strategy. They are making different areas ungovernable, requiring a state of emergency that cannot work because the enforcers are the victims; planting despair in the populace; and ultimately substituting government with local militias.
Things are stacking up. The villages that surround major towns are being decimated and the violence is circling in. The solutions are not obvious, but they exist. Sadly, the longer we remain in our current direction, the longer a new direction will take to get back to ground zero.
– Osasu Oviawe