ADJUST OR DONT FALL IN LOVE + MY PERSPECTIVE OF THE SELF-OPINIONATED + JOKES

For the first time in my blogging life, I am totally incapable of writing the introduction of this post and yet I must post today. My mind is a little bit clouded with issues. I will be fine though. For the first time on this blog, I devised a pictorial introduction and hope to follow up with a few words thereafter. Here is the picture

For me, this picture is one of the closest reasons why millions of people fall in and out of love daily. Yes, people are so selfish they oftentimes bring their whole selves into relationships and then again become totally unwilling to let go habits their partners consider repulsive. The funny thing is that, they are so selfish to expect their partners to adjust for them while they remain stiff. Love is a journey where partners meet at the middle. Honestly, I don’t have problems adjusting habits my partner is not comfortable with but I will feel better if she does the same for me too. When one person is unwilling to adjust and yet expecting the other to, heartbreak results. In the same vein, the result is the same if both parties are just unwilling to adjust. If we claim to love someone, we should be willing to adjust. Oftentimes, we are the creator of our own hurts. I hope to write a full note in this line soon.

I hope you will enjoy my post today.

MY PERSPECTIVE OF THE SELF OPINIONATED. Excerpt of my book. The Big Me.

I have been humbled severally especially in my younger years when my ego was at top speed and unbroken. I would argue my point thinking it’s the best until someone with a better idea about the issue step into room and embarrass me. Those embarrassments, though hard to accept in the heat of arguments, taught me immense lessons and one of the lessons is: no matter the knowledge I have obtained through great studies, I don’t really know enough. Hence pushing and fighting, trying to show how much I know is really unnecessary. If you will permit me to use King James Version of the Bible, such actions bringeth innumerable embarrassments and leadeth to your doom.

Knowledge is like the several parts of a garment- the hand; the collar and shoulder parts all make up a complete garment. Each one of us holds just a portion of that garment. Some people hold the shoulder parts, others the hand and another set, the collar - none of these sets are inconsequential in our lives because without them the garment is incomplete. So, to shut others down in way to prove your wealth of knowledge is not only injustice but also denying yourself the joy of learning from others. These people could be the most despised, most starved of education, most impoverished or the least brilliant in the society yet they hold a part of knowledge that your educational qualification or years of studies cannot provide for you. Apostle Paul declares in the Holy Bible,

“we KNOW in PARTS and prophesy in parts.”

I am compelled to share one of my stories here to paint the picture better. While I was studying Mass Communication in the University of Jos, Nigeria, some years ago, I had an argument with my younger brother – the last one, who at that point was in his Junior Secondary. Academically, the difference was incomparable but my brother knew something that I didn’t know. Sometimes education is not a yardstick to measure knowledge because education is not meant to make us know everything but to assist us to be a little bit familiar with more knowledge. Hence, the more we advance in education, the better we know but we cannot know all there is. Someone far lower in education may amaze us with something we never had the idea about.

In our argument, my younger brother said, “to naturalize is to make somebody from another country a citizen of a specified country.” To show how much I know, I quickly disagreed and I corrected him in public that ‘Nationalize’ is the right word to use. He disagreed vehemently and I felt insulted by this “common” Junior Secondary Student. I argued but he insisted that he was right and because I wanted to be regarded more highly by the people around and especially by this obstinate younger brother, I suggested we check the dictionary thinking I’d be justified. Unfortunately, after due consultation with my dictionary, he was right and I was wrong. You can guess what happened next. In the highest proportion, I earned myself mockery in my bid to show my knowledge bank.

If you are sincere with yourself, you will realize that most times when you argue you don’t have sufficient knowledge on what you argue about. You just want to push your ego forward as a knowledgeable chap to earn respect or improve your self-esteem. If you aint sure of what you argue about why condemn someone else’s opinion? It was Theodore Roosevelt who once said that if he could be right 75% of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. If this is the highest rating that one of the world’s most distinguished men of the 20^th Century could hope to attain, what about you and I? If you can’t be sure of being right 55% of the time, why should you tell other people they’re wrong?

This my brief opinion of the person Nigerians call I Too Know or ITK.

A FEW JOKE FOR YOU

BOY : May I hold your BOY : May I hold your hand?

GIRL : No thanks, it isn't heavy.

GIRL : Say you love me! Say you love me!

BOY : You love me...

GIRL : If we become engaged will you give me a ring??

BOY : Sure, what's your phone number??

GIRL : I think the poorest people are the happiest.

BOY : Then marry me and we'll be the happiest couple

GIRL : Darling, I want to dance like this forever.

BOY : Don't you ever want to improve??

BOY : I love you and I could die for you!

GIRL : How soon??

BOY : I would go to the end of the world for you!

GIRL : Yes, but would you stay there??

SHARON : Have you ever had a hot passionate, burning

kiss??

TRACY : I did once. He'd forgotten to take the

cigarette out of his mouth.

MAN : You remind me of the sea.

WOMAN : Because I'm wild, romantic and exciting?

MAN : NO, because you make me sick.

WIFE : You tell a man something, it goes in one ear

and comes out of the other.

HUSBAND : You tell a woman something: It goes in both

ears and comes out of the mouth.

MARY : John says I'm pretty. Andrew says I'm ugly.What

do u think,

Peter?

PETER : A bit of both. I think you're pretty ugly.

) Girlfriend : "...And are you sure you love me and

no one else ?"

Boyfriend : "Dead Sure! I checked the whole list again

yesterday".

2) Teacher : "Which is more important to us, the sun

or the moon?"

Pupil : "The moon".

Teacher : "Why?"

Pupil : "The moon gives us light at night when we need

it but the sun gives us light only in the day time

when we don't need it".

3) Teacher : "What do you call a person who keeps on

talking when people are no longer interested?"

Pupil : "A teacher".

4) Waiter : "Would you like your coffee black?"

Customer : "What other colors do you have?"

5) My father is so old that when he was in school,

history was called current affairs.

6) Teacher : "Sam, you talk a lot !"

Sam : "It's a family tradition".

Teacher : "What do you mean?"

Sam : "Sir, my grandpa was a street hawker, my father

is a teacher".

Teacher : "What about your mother?"

Sam : "She's a woman".

7) Tom : "How should I convey the news to my father

that I've failed?"

David: "You just send a telegram: Result declared,

past year's performance repeated".

8) Teacher : "Now, children, if I saw a man beating a

donkey and stopped him, what virtue would I be

showing?"

Student : "Brotherly love".

9) Teacher : "Now, Sam, tell me frankly do you say

prayers before eating?"

Sam : "No sir, I don't have to, my mom is a good

cook".

10) Patient : "What are the chances of my recovering

doctor?"

Doctor : "One hundred percent. Medical records show

that nine out of ten people die of the disease you

have. Yours is the tenth case I've treated. The others

all died".

11) Teacher : " Can anybody give an example of

COINCIDENCE? "

One Student : "Sir, my Mother and Father got married

on the same day and at the same time."

12) Teacher : " George Washington not only chopped

down his father's Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it.

Now do you know why his father didn't punish him ?"

One Student: " Because George still had the axe in is hand."

hand?

i honestly apologize for my inability to post the article on friends. i will do that soon. i have not finished the article yet. you have my love. I'm out.