“Let there be light”

   Article written by a crazy friend of mine and fellow blogger. He is back again with this interesting piece which titled ''Let there be light'' Enjoy.

 Those four words are one of the most powerful words I’ve ever heard. I’m not gonna lie to you that on first hearing, it hit my soul with the power of ten Hiroshima bombs and sent my mind sprawling from the hit, consuming every parallel ideology I have imbibed, burning to the roots every mind-set my warped Nigerian society has forced down my mental throat, I would love to heighten the drama and lie to you but the truth is, I don’t even remember the first I heard it; it’s a religious cliché, in my opinion.

      Fast forward to today, the importance of that phrase cannot be over emphasized, for there is darkness everywhere we look… darkness in an over-bearing Nigerian economy, darkness even as divorce is on the rise, darkness even as our educational system continues to sink in the quick sand of neglect and ineptitude from those concerned, the darkness of insecurity, the dearness of fuel scarcity, the darkness of boko haram, al shabab, isis(the terror groups are in small letters deliberately) and every other coward group like that, the darkness of poverty, the darkness of illiteracy, the darkness of NEPA, literally(this one is just annoying)!

     But we need that youth, the girl, that guy, that man, that woman, that politician, that banker, that policeman, that law-maker, lecturer who would say today “let there be light”.

   We need young men and women who would say today “let there be light in my finances” only then can we grow industries and fuel the industrial revolution that we so need. We need our great minds to summon up courage, rise from the darkness, decide that enough is enough, scream “let there be light” and go for it.

      Let there be light today in your working place, let there be light in that your small akara business that you think is inconsequential, let there be light on duty today Mr officer… Nigerians, Africans, Earthlings, let there be light! You are that light! Be the light!

The end.

P.S if you are Nigerian, you need to read this article five times… the darkness in this country ehn needs extra.

   Next week I will talk about what I learnt from photography, don’t miss it.

                                                                                

  MAD MATT

Matthew Ose is an environMENTAL Biologist, whistle-blower, student of life and charles Darwin, book lover, cockroach hater, social commentator, hunk, talkative, proud owner of six packs, and God lover. He writes for Orimeji.wordpress.com