IN ALL YOUR GETTING; GET WISDOM!

I watched with sheer agony and horror at the video of a young beautiful "yellow sisi" making mockery of herself at the just concluded Miss Rivers Golden Jubilee beauty pagentry.

You see a contestant was asked a really basic question; "would you prefer an arranged marriage or marrying for love and why?", all hell broke loose right then, our beautifully clad sister couldn't construct proper sentences, she finally manage to utter something about how it's important to "arrange" your marriage before going into it and not marry out of love.

At that point I was seriously vexed like "really", I couldn't even bring myself to laugh at her sef for making such utterances. You see; I believe it all traces back to our value systems; I was born and grew up in Port Harcourt, it's a city where every skinny girl wants to be a model and win a beauty pageant.

why is this? it's because of the value the Rivers state has placed on such activity; there's always a pageantry going on in this state with mouth watering prizes to be won.

I strongly believe she pulled all stops to get to that stage but didn't realize they would even ask any questions. we have placed little a value on education and so much on beauty.
we fail to realize that beauty without WISDOM is nothing!

Out of the shadows

Lying wide awake tonight; I haven't done this in a while, perhaps just perhaps I have forgotten how to, but undaunted i decide I'll try anyways. So here's my little piece trying to make sense of it all.

I realize that I'm tired, the world doesn't seem all pink these days,mostly grey actually. Bruises, Cuts,Burns and Tears are the order of our today. Funny thing is most of the pain seem to come from loving wrong people in wronger ways.

Oh my precious! You need to believe that you are a gem, you have to know that you were created for something far bigger than what your today looks like. You weren't put here to end up bruised,broken,burnt.

Your mother's loving arms are ever open  to you till the day she dies, your father wouldn't join the world to scorn you for coming back home. there's so much more that awaits you if only you stay awoke and retrace those deadly steps.

I pray you come to understand that you have sold yourself short, that need in "wanting to be needed" that feeling that "you can never be enough on your own" are all victories for your captor. You need to come out of those shadows and walk straight home.

But until then I'm tired.