BURDEN OF UNCERTAINTY AND THE STACK REALITY OF REGRET.

Uncertainty, to a large extent, like regret is supposedly both a physical and spiritual low point in these matter and manner of human existence- especially among active adults. Regret, unlike uncertainty, is chiefly the corollary of human actions and inactions. In the state of regret, one is often very distressed and sorrowful; hence torpid and highly assailed.

Victims of regret, far and away, desire to reverse time or freeze same (time) at most. By so doing, they hope (but in vain) to undo or retract what they have done or said and/or do or say what they have failed to have done or said. Desperate others do even desire to change birth place or other places- but Mother Nature won’t have none of that. “We must be accountable to our deeds. There are no ‘ifs’ or ‘ands’ about it,” says Victor Hugo.

Permit then to infer that “regret” is unlicensed, unhealthy, unethical, unproductive, unmanly, ungodly, and totally unwelcome- so why still indulge in it? I humbly then posit (as a guide against regret) that we “plan and pray,” then “look,” very deep “before we leap.” What ever shortcomings we encounter afterwards are but good omen. As “shortcomings are success turned inside out, the silver tint of the cloud of doubt, and you never can tell how close you are, it may be near when it seems so far; so stick to the fight when you are hardest hit. It’s when things seems worst that you mustn’t summit to the odds and ends reckoned as regret.” What’s more, the British once opined that “when an exercise fails, let it die fast and silently; and if anyone mentions it, you don’t know what the hell he’s talking about-” Que sera sera.

Uncertainty you asked!?

Uncertainty in all its entirety is vile. It vitiates common sense; and violates divinity. Uncertainty paralyzes the faculty of reason, destroys the faculty of imagination, kills off self-reliance, undermines enthusiasm. Uncertainty discourages initiative, leads to lack of purpose, encourages procrastination, distorts facts and makes self control almost an impossibility. It takes the charm from one’s personality, destroys the possibility of accurate thinking, divert concentration of efforts- hence gross wastage of scarce resources.

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Uncertainty master persistence, it turns the will power into nothingness, destroys ambition, beclouds the memory and invites failure. Uncertainty kills love and assassinates the finer emotions of the human heart, discourages friendship and invites disaster in a million forms, hence unhappiness, restlessness, sleeplessness and misery. And all these, despite the obvious facts, that we live in the world of over-abundance of anything out of everything that the human heart could ever desire, with nothing; yes, absolutely nothing standing between us and our desire, save our doubts.

In this regard, “thought,” according to James Allen, “generates health or toxins in the system according to the kind (thoughts) entertained. The vision you glorify in your mind, the idea that you enthrone in your heart- this you will build your life. By this you will definitely become.”

It’s against this backdrop that I’m most oblige to enjoin my most amiable and people’s oriented former and potential governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris and others faced with similar fate across the federation to rejoice in their fortune. The fortune of redeeming their mandate- the burden of proof, a herbal (natural) and sure cure for the burden of uncertainty.

To my most pragmatic and inviolable former and potential governor, Prince Abubakar Audu, and other “Audu-like” politicians savouring every dividends of “the rule of law” on the other hand, may I seize this rare privilege to salute your doggedness.

To the Nigerian judiciary; may your resurrection be far-reaching and eternal.

And of course, finally too, to you that are of “like mind” like mine, do please join me in celebrating, on this note, one of our very own- Anuli Ausbeth –Ajagu (Mrs), whose dictum I pray should end this piece.

Accordingly; “I definitely am not where I dream to be, but I sure am not where I use to be. I am making progress.”-

Anuli Ausbeth –Ajagu (Mrs), Woman of the Sun, Daily Sun, 27/03/2007. pp.22

Omale Suraj Alladey (OSA),

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