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EVERY DEED WE INVOLVE IN AND TERM ‘GOOD’ IS NOTHING WHEN LOVE IS NOT INVOLVED Today, like every other day, my mind has been busy thinking about so many things and even wandering sometimes but this thought about love…I decided to post. I’ve been thinking, why do people fight? Why is there so much hatred in our minds against one another? Why are leaders mean and ruthless? Why are the followers hateful and remorseless? Why do we keep getting and losing with the same intensity? Why is it that even those who give to charity, the human rights agitators, pastors and all others who seem to live just lives end up unhappy and their deeds unpleasing to their maker? The bible got my answers. The book of 1 st Corinthians 13 made so much meaning to me today than ever! Verses 1-3 says, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity. I am become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal; and though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and ...

Ever heard the Nursery rhyme, ‘Tick says the time tick tick; what you have to do do quick’? Or the popular statement that time waits for no one? How about ‘Do not do the right thing at the wrong time’? Have you ever heard that procrastination is the foundation of all failures? Or that the time is now? What about, “the bad news is time flies; the good news is you’re the pilot”? Or that “a man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life”? I tell you, a lot has been said about time, all pointing to its very importance. During my undergraduate days, one of our lecturers, Professor Ojebode once taught the class a poem by Robert Herrick. It goes this way, “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may; Old time is still a-flying; and this same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying”. Professor Ojebode made us recite this during every of his lecture periods. This, I believe was done to create a lasting awareness about the importance of time and time management i...

Amarachi Nwankwo's Blog: DIARY OF A TIRED GIRL AND LESSONS LEARNT : Today is 9 th  of October, 2016 and time is 11:30pm. I am lying on my bed this Sunday night feeling tired, very very tired. My tiredness is...

Today is 9 th  of October, 2016 and time is 11:30pm. I am lying on my bed this Sunday night feeling tired, very very tired. My tiredness is borne out of the various activities I had engaged myself in. I sat on my chair, computer on table with my eyes fixed to the computer screen. I had been on this for long hours now. I only got up when I needed to cook, brush, have my bath and then I continued the act. This feeling of fatigue! For the greater part of the last three months, this has been my routine. I remember having body aches sometime as a result. I had to visit the hospital for that but on this fateful night, I learnt my lesson. I cannot even believe I’m writing this. I tell you, I’m feeling so tired!  I've  been feeling dizzy, like…I’d fall to the ground and then…Halfway to writing this, I was called to join the rest of the family for our daily evening prayers. During the course of our prayer meeting, ‘Nepa’ took light. I’m back to my room feeling even worse b...