By Ovundah Nyeche.
Today I got thinking again…
I went online… And Prof. Pius Adesanmi was trending again…
Apart from the tribute…
Many of his masterpiece were shared online…
Though I follow him online, but today for the first time, I listened to his masterpiece, The parable of the shower head ?…
Where he told a story about his experience in a classy Nigerian hotel ? where all the holes in the ? shower head in his room were not open, even if the shower was working.
He would call the reception to complain about the bad shower and they would send a technician on time to come fix the shower in his room.
However, he was shocked the well kitted technician was more at peace with the fact, that the shower was working, and not if all the holes of the shower head ? were open.
He used the shower head, as a metaphor, to talk about, our love for our culture of mediocrity…
His photos are everywhere…
I also shared his photo ?, but when he was alive, I don’t think I ever did…
His works and all the books he wrote are also hitting our faces…
The fact he was a national treasure has been resounded countless number of times; and even the President acknowledged him in death…
If any of his work is currently been promoted or released, it will sell like “bole” and fish…
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Go to any burial ceremony and villains become saints…
Go to any burial ceremony and see eulogies…
Wait for people to pass on.. And you hear the beautiful things they meant to others…
Wait for people to pass on, and their unpainted and dilapidated houses ? bear a new look…
People who never visited, come visiting…
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Death reveals a lot of things…
How come ?, when people are alive, they are overlooked, but when they die… They are everywhere?
How come people, have a larger than life figure when they pass on?
How come many people are celebrated in death more than life? ?
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Would it be better to eulogize, support, value, love, encourage people when they are alive…
Would it be better to fan their dream and tell them a kind word…
Would it be better to give them a helping hand and not wait for them to die, before we realize they matter.
Give people flowers ? to smell when they are alive and not wait until they pass on… to fill their doorsteps with bouquets of flowers.
The dead don’t smell flowers ?, the living do.
Make a difference in someone’s life today… Don’t wait until they are gone.
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