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To EAT AND TO LIVE...


You work so hard, even neglecting your loved ones
Why?
To put food on the table.
You are arrogant and mean to a colleague-
You’re like “what does he think he is? To hell with him! He doesn’t even put food on my table”.
You are disrespectful to everyone in your neighborhood-
When asked, you say blah blah blah and proudly conclude, “besides, they do not feed me”
You settle for the worst-
You don’t care.
“As long as it puts food on my table” you say.
You hurl insults at anything and anyone who doesn’t feed you.
Someone hurts you and the first thing you lament about is how much you had to feed him/her for a long long time.
Instead of maximizing your business to yield more profits and improve standard of living-
You relax and remain stagnant.
You do not strive to be better because you measure success by being able to afford a three-square meal daily.
You do not think of human development in its entirety,
Rather, all you think is ‘stomach infrastructure’
As long as belle-full!
If you are an Ngwa person like me, then you must be used to either saying or hearing “odi itum rin?” (does he/she feed me?)

STOP. THINK.

Must it always be about food?
How about passion? Talent? Wealth?
Economic development? Human advancement among others?
However, we say, “once there is life, there is hope”
And we know that food fuels life,
So, to survive, we must eat.
Do not get this twisted though.
Food is as important as life.
But do we now eat at the expense of our lives?
THINK DEEPLY.

© Amarachi Nwankwo, 2018

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