HUMAN NATURE!

I have seen people who think life is a waste of time, and some who think having kids is totally absurd,have seen others who feel music is the world's worst invention, have also heard of people that see no big deal in eating human flesh, i mean meat is meat afterall!

One time too many,i have asked myself,"why do people act the way they do?"am not trying to reincarnate the book by Tim Lahaye,really am not,i have never fully read that book ,but ofcourse have flipped through the pages a couple of time, out of curiousity of what really is in the book. Tim lahaye wrote so much stuff which eventually from  the world point of view did justice to the question, but from my point of view, it brought to my mind more questions(maybe cos i never really finished or even started the book).
To me he(Tim Lahaye) brought so much vocabulary and terminology i needed to cram just to understand how people behave.That itself is more complex than the problem that the book is trying to solve. That doesnt still mean the book isnt great,ofcourse it is!it sold over a million copies!

Truth is, i want a quick answer like, people act the way they do because ........., if you cant explain something to a seven year old, then you probably dont know what you are talking about.

A story was told of a man trying to save a drowning scorpion, the scorpion was drowning and each time the man reached out his hand to  rescue the scorpion it stings the man, yet the man kept on trying to save the scorpion and the scorpion kept on stinging the man.
Someone watching nearby amused, said to the man "why are you hurting yourself,stop trying to save what continually hurts u", then the man said,it's the nature of the scorpion to sting,and it is my nature to save! This man obviously understands that despite the stinging from the scorpion this scorpion actually meant no harm,it is just responding the way it should when it feels danger around,though this man is not trying to hurt the scorpion,but how do you explain that to a poor scorpion. It's simply its nature!

But understanding the way people behave comes with a very heavy price,which is one becoming judgemental! If you are not GAY, you will never understand what gays see that get them attracted to same sex!
The world is now so civilized that a stone can be sold as a Gem, if the seller can explain his/her way out,i mean the world is now so civilized that one can explain away morals successfully.

Human ability to learn fast is also one of our greatest disadvantage,we learn so fast that we outlearn things,we go too deep that we imagine and think the unimaginable.
Human nature is learning,learning leads to development of human mind,the mind determines who you become.Imagine someone reading or following Karl Marx hmmm...........

Bottom line,human nature is intelligent, diverse and unexplainable, but not impossible to understand!

Atura de Atocha, Life & Poetry: LIFE IS LIKE BOXING!

Atura de Atocha, Life & Poetry: LIFE IS LIKE BOXING!: "Life has been defined by many as different things.Some say life is like onion,it opens up in layers,others say life is like a crossroad, you..."

LIFE IS LIKE BOXING!

Life has been defined by many as different things.Some say life is like onion,it opens up in layers,others say life is like a crossroad, you choose your own part.Sport men say life is a game, farmers say it is like a seed and so on......
All of them are actually correct,because all of the explanation above are all subset of life,making life a huge universal set.This is why life can be explained in so many ways.
Ofcourse,i have my own analogy about life, Personally i think life is more like a sport, particularly boxing.

Boxing is the best form of sport that relates life to the world.
You endure,persevere,persecute,restrain,defend,attack,empower,rest,refrain etc and so many times you practice,watch out,starve,encourage yourself.You have to have self belief, be self alert,trust yourself and when you lose confidence you have to take risks!

Unlike other sports,in boxing if you are not well prepared,you dont just lose,you injure.You dont just get your ego and confidence bruised,your body and tooth are also bruised.Just like life if you are lose,you dont avenge,you go back re-prepare and when you are ready if the one who defeated you has lost the title to someone else,you dont fight him anymore NO!you go after the person with the title cos if  you beat the one with the title,you automatically beat the one who defeated you initially.Then you are the champion!

 Boxing again like life is not just about getting prepared and winning,No!There is more to life than that. Not all who prepare well  take the day, you need more than just preparaton.You also need the will,preparation give the skill but the will is something you develop inside you. You need both the will and skill to survive. like Mohammed Ali said :

"Champions are not made in gyms,they are made from something they have deep within;a desire,a dream,a vision.They have the last minute stamina,they have to be a little faster and they have to have both the SKILL and the WILL,but the WILL must be stronger than the SKILL."
Fellas am boxing Forward!

THE BLINDEST BLIND DATE.

Two nights ago,i was sleeping and possibly snoring because i was very tired,and i still must be at work that morning, only to be awoken by my cousin's (whom i share the room with) late night call at around 4:00am.
The problem was not even the call he was making and all the funny absurd things he was saying over the phone,but the person on the other end of the line. He was talking to this girl he never met before, they actually met virtually on this mobile chat called 2go.Funny enough i know the girl ,i have seen her before and  i cant just talk my cous out of the chick.

Now  blind dates are lovely if you never get to see your date,but believe me, majority of the blind dating people have seen or heard about stopped the very day they meet.All of us like the excitment of blind dating it is like openning a christmas present, waiting to be surprised,but unlike a chrismas present ,we most times get shocked.

Mine was a disaster,i met this girl through her sister a couple of years back,her sister was my friend in Abuja and she is pretty,she was into me,but i really was not in moods for flings, so i kept a low profile with her. Then something led to another and i got talking to her sister,and then asked my friend  how her sister looks,she told me she was prettier. So i  shifted attention to the sister,we talked on the phone like mad, then i had to go to Abuja for one reason. This chick kept on calling me from the Airport before i departed and her call was the first i recieved when the plane grounded.

In short we met....................and we never spoke again.I know i was dissapointed,but was she? i will never find out cos i did not want to.
I figured out that day: we all want what is out of our reach,i mean there are zillions of girls and guys we see everyday but most of us prefer to fall in love with those we dont see, we like surprises,we like suspense we like to wonder in exictment what the future holds, yet we want to peep a little into the future to ensure all is well.

All this flashed back into my head in the middle of the night ,while my cous was laughing his heart out on the phone,well his might be one of the exceptions,but to me i think it is a disaster waiting to happen.

Not all blind dates end in a misery anyway,but it is a mystery how much poeple love blind dates,check facebook and all social webs,people just want to hang out with people  they dont have a single clue about,leaving the very good friends behind.

Now my cous will see the girl in about a forth night,i will give you guys the disaster report. Really hope it has a happy ending!

THE ZOO

Our life is so much in order.
Hiding feelings from one another.
Too careful of each other.
our world is like a Zoo.

We have lost our basic instinct.
Taking our existence into extinct.
And we think that makes us distinct.
Our world is like a Zoo.

I want to return to the wild.
Where i wont take life mild.
Into the free air i would glide.
Am getting out of the Zoo.

I dont want to remain the same.
I dont want to be tame.
I will burn my shackles in flames.
Am getting out of the Zoo.

TRULY,Life is not easy!

Early this morning,i was on bed trying to overcome the very first difficulty of everyday life, waking up! I had so much for the day,first was to catch a 7:30am flight from lagos to port-harcourt which if i miss will have a crushing Domino effect on my day,infact on my week.
I already had a painstaking day just the day before,trying to get a solar panel and some cables in Alaba international market.
Also the day before yesterday,i had another Emotional blow from the one thats dear to me......Also the day before the day  before yesterday, i was at a must attend wedding in Oshogbo and i had to leave oshogbo for lagos in a crazy hold up in Ibadan,  because i must see the one thats dear to me, and the day before this i had to travel 9 hours on the road from port harcourt to oshogbo.....the day before this also......................i can go on without end....but wait lets return to Early this morning!

Yes Early this morning,trying to wake up brought so much thought into me,i mean truly,life is not easy! but who cares,life can only be easy if one want to lounge around like a Lion caged with two lionness in the Zoo, where one can get free food,booze and accomodation but ofcourse you would get stared at like a zoo lion, people paying to stare at you.

Problem is,i dont think the lion likes the zoo idea,i can just imagine what the lion thinks "Life is not easy" ofcourse he thinks life is not easy,even the lion in the jungle chasing zebras still thinks life is not easy....so when will life be easy?

Now my point of view, life is not easy, so what! "Know your limit, then exceed it" thats one of my favourite quotes,now that we all know life is not easy,what do we do? Yes work harder and pray, not knowing it then start to whine about it, that there is Negativity!
 The most difficult part of life is waking up,if you get out of bed,then you have what it takes to live life.
Hardwork leads to success.knowing that life is not easy solves half the problem.Most of us know that SAT exam is not easy,then we prepare harder for it,that is the kind of knowing that am talking about,not knowing and getting all negative about it.
If one would rate life's difficulty on a scale of 1 - 10, i would say 15!
Am not here to tell you that life is not easy, am here to challenge you about what you will do with this uneasy life.
Thank God Adam eat "an apple" as people said,what if he eat watermelon or pawpaw,then life might be more difficult,the bigger the friut the bigger the punishment (my assumption).

So as i go around merging the differnt colors of my life together,i intend painting colorfully the beautiful rainbow of my life with  Prayer and hardwork.

Prison without walls

Living in a cell
i heard the catholic bell
confession time, who will i tell?
for all believed,i fell.

I always yell
but that did not sell
for am in a big well
and no one can compel.

Is like am on a spell
that wants to take me to hell
i tried to chase it from where i dwell
in this, i did not excel.

Shock has taken me off my heel
shocks more than the electric eel
am the only one who knows how it feels
to everyone else am going round the reel!