Saturday, 13 October 2012

Happy Birthday Sub Lt U F Aminu

I've been waiting for this day for quite a long time now and all I have to say is Alhamdulillah for witnessing yet another day like this, a day to rejoice with "TORTURE" as you're fondly called by your mates in the academy.
  Its still in my memory how we went to Sahad stores to buy some perfumes and deodorants on a rented bike and how we rode wildly through out the ride which earned us curses from motorists and also how we beat up the Okada riders just coz we think we can beat them. Do you recall how we smashed the taxi driver's windshield and were arrested and detained? Do you recall how we used to visit the Indomie joints in Kano? And how we cruise with speed around town? The life we lived as teenagers is what we called teenage adventure, we do have a lot to tell our kids when they arrive. Lots of my friends do say "that cousin of yours don't like to talk" and I'll reply them by saying yeah he don't coz that's one quality of a soldier, not to be friendly.
ADIEU, soldier!
You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,)
The rapid march, the life of the camp,
The hot contention of opposing fronts—the long manoeuvre,
Red battles with their slaughter,—the stimulus—the strong, terrific game,
Spell of all brave and manly hearts—the trains of Time through you, and like of you,
all fill’d, with war, and war’s expression.

Adieu, Torture!
Your mission is fulfill’d but I, more warlike,
Myself, and this contentious soul of mine,
Still on our own campaigning bound,
Through untried roads, with ambushes, opponents lined,
Through many a sharp defeat and many a crisis often baffled,
Here marching, ever marching on, a war fight out aye here,
To fiercer, weightier battles give expression.


Happy Birthday Bro, may Allah continue to Bless u in all your endeavors.

Monday, 8 October 2012

Choice

The choices we make are irreversible. We cannot hit the "rewind" button to that part of our lives when we make stupid and thoughtless choices. Those choices that, when we look back at it, we ask ourselves the reason for such choices. It makes me laugh to think about the countless times when I would just wish I could go back to different moments in my life and change something. But I never could. I would, sometimes, wake up in the morning and hope that I had gone a day back. But it never was. I only keep moving forward. Isolated.Choices are never isolated. One thing usually leads to another. Sad part, most of our stupid choices lead to some other stupid choices. REASON, because we never learn. we refuse to keep moving forward and instead, stop and pause and wish to go back. Rewind. We waste good opportunities to learn because all we see are stupid choices not learning experiences.Perception.Stupid choices are not facts, they are a matter of perception. stupid choices become barricades. Stupid choices become unopened windows. Your choice. They could be barricades that completely hinder you from moving forward. or they become unopened windows, those untapped opportunities that, once tapped and opened, could lead to something amazing. perception. Difference.Happiness. Satisfaction. Misery. Regret. The difference of how we perceive stupid mistakes lies in the emotional stance of the self.