We will Love and be Loved This is the last piece in “The Beauty of Life Series” Another beauty and spice of life is the fact that we will love and be loved. The issue of love and being loved is a phenomenon that cut across human beings and even animals alike. It is that feeling that gives us sense of belonging and the feeling of being special. We all have in us this innate and inbuilt desire of strong affection, feelings and longing for somebody. Our heart is wired in such a way that nothing has the power to touch and influence it as love. In our journey of life, we will be presented with the opportunities, platforms and privileges to love and be loved. Some will love us with strings attached, while some will love us unconditionally. We also in return will love and demonstrate affection toward others, spanning from our families, relatives, neighbours and ultimately to our spouses. This is the beauty of life. However, though to love and be loved is a great thing, if we ...

We will Make Mistakes and Offend Others Life is a process of learning and we all are students of life, ever learning every new day; we cannot say we are perfect neither are we beyond mistakes. Another beauty of life is the fact that we will make mistakes, we will offend others and sometimes we will find ourselves as scapegoats at one point in time. What we do with these moments of mistakes has a lot to do with the shaping and making of our lives. That you make mistakes doesn’t mean you are inferior or a failure, it simply shows how human you are and how you need grace and mercy. Again, that you offend others doesn’t mean that you are the most annoying human being on earth, but it only proves we all are fallible. We all are human with tendencies of making mistakes and offending others, thus we all need mercy and we also need to take responsibility for our actions. Each and every day, life give us the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes and the experiences where we hav...

Moments of Joy and Laughter To start with, I will like to from the onset capture two pairs of factors in this first piece that beautify our lives; these are moments of joy/laughter and moments of tears/regrets. Be patient, stay with me in this journey, I cannot promise you heaven and earth but one thing I know for sure is that the end of this journey proves to be life defining and fulfilling. Inevitably, time will come that life will throw at us pleasant moments; moments we would love to keep experiencing again and again. These moments make us laugh and send chill down our spines, they are moments that momentarily make us forget our sorrows and troubles, and these are the moments of joy and happiness. Happiness and peace are two things you should not deny yourself daily, the obvious reason being that you have single life to live within a short time frame. However, happiness and peace is not the absence of chaos but the ability to discover purpose in the storm and knowing who...

Recently, I was lost in series of introspective thoughts about life and those things that make it beautiful; I have asked myself what it really means to say life is beautiful. I am sure as you are reading these words now you are silently trying to figure out those aesthetical make ups that make life beautiful, well, just know that it will be a worthy course if you do find them out. Life is never a bed  of roses, neither has it ever promised us a smooth ride; sometimes we find ourselves up against the wall and we feel like giving up, sometimes we found ourselves stranded at the crossroad, confused about what to do. Honestly, life sometimes becomes a puzzle that is hard to figure out, an equation so difficult to solve and question so tasking to answer. In this life, we will definitely have our moments of joy and regrets, our share of tears and laughter, our ups and downs, experiences to cherish and those we wouldn’t want to encounter again. Unavoidably, we will make mistakes...

From my primary school  days, to my secondary school years and up to my undergraduate moments, I have seen hard work, excellence and  diligence rewarded; most often at class/department dinners, graduations, and convocations. At such events, outstanding persons in both aptitude and attitude were recognized, celebrated and given standing ovation. Even now, outside the four corners of the learning institutions, in the organized endeavours of humanity, hard work, diligence,  excellence, and every good and profitable achievements are also recognized and celebrated. Hence, we have globally recognized names and companies today that had been celebrated and are still being celebrated because of their great positive achievements. Away from the formality of the structured human endeavours and the so called big names we know today, shifting from the status quo of the men and women we are used to celebrating in the society, I sense as a proper way to kick start the year 2...