Now, here's what happened.
At about 10am on Thursday, a tree in the school premises suddenly began to let water out from its sides. As expected, everyone was surprised. "what could this be?" people asked themselves, expecting no direct answers though. In a very short while, the scene was filled up with observers that it was difficult for many others to see what was really happening.
The crux of the matter: many people started fetching the water in volumes as they believed it is magical, some attached importance to the tree and concluded that the spirits that live in the tree are out on display of powers. Others began to bring so much religion into it. Funny.
I am not trying to disregard our religion and faith in the Almighty one who made the universe (as a matter of fact, I have experienced His realistic being...). But our 'thought-system' will really need to change for the better if the we are actually heading somewhere close to the future we desire for ourselves. In this age of information and discoveries, the world isn't waiting for a university undergraduate who will conclude without deep reasoning that anything that deviates from the normal is always supernatural or unexplainable.
If we must get ahead as a nation, we think ahead of our past generations. Comparing Nigeria with developed countries in the world, and then blaming our leaders would make no sense if we don't think differently. It's high time we started thinking logically, analytically and started devising solutions to our problems ourselves. And, I think I should let you know now that 98percent of the strange things we see around us are not caused by 'the old woman in the village'. The era of finding some persons to always blame should be done with. If that was how those who invented the telephone were thinking, they would praise one god of communication somewhere. ( I know some people still believe that the phone was made by 'Oyinbo witchcraft'...lol. Please wake up and make sure you dont tell that to your kids now or later)
For your information, at about 3pm that same day, the 'holy water' from the 'tree of life' stopped flowing. And that was about the same time the persons on duty at the school's water services switched off the water pumping machine. That was when it was discovered that one of the water pipes around the tree had bursted, and the source of the 'mysterious' water became obvious.
When they say, "the Youth are the leaders of tomorrow", many young persons are 'gingered' to aspire for political offices and to quickly have their demands met. Whereas, the reasonable explanation of that statement is this: what the older ones have not known yet, the youth will discover and better their nation's economy, education and health sectors with it in their time. It is with this knowledge that those who will lead will lead. In 20 years' time, there will be a new set of leaders doing greater exploits than 'Fela Durotoye, Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga, Asa, Dora Akunyili, Kenny Ogungbe and stars who would be world leaders in entertainment, fashion etc. I want to encourage you to be a part of it and not like some persons always cricizing and blaming the government, the gods etc ( some even blame other countries).
We all won't be politicians, but we can choose to so excel in our career paths and consciously build the Nigeria we want. Let us all begin to look inward and see the possibilities and not mysteries.
God bless.
Mayowa Williams.
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