I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play
And mild and sweet the words repeat,
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
I thought how as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had roll’d along th’ unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And in despair I bow’d my head:
“There is no peace on earth,” I said,
“For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men.”
‘Til ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime,
Of peace on earth, good will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. first published in 1863
I woke up early this morning too stressed and worried that i could not go back to sleep. Yes i do get like this on very rare occasions but the stress in this country is getting at me, well if you must know am in Nigeria right now. A country where the president is very sick and its a big secret among his people while his seat is left in vacuum. The cabinet members do as they want like sheep without a shepherd,where a bank MD can be caught with very huge amount of dollars without an official covering letter.Where state governor loot state funds at will and nobody blinks about it. Where you put your money in a bank and can not collect it probably because the bank manager has given out people’s money as loan to his friends and relative, where the bank managers live like kings. Where i can’t sleep now because my money in the bank and can not be returned to me which i need it urgently if you must know again am not asking the bank for a loan but my personal investment. Where you can’t be paid for services rendered and you can’t do anything about it. Where they value cheap services instead of quality ones, price comes before asking for quality of services. Where marriage vows means nothing anymore, infidelity has become the order of the day. Where divorce is a normal everyday thing caused by cheating husbands and wives,okay i know that happens every where in the world but then it is not the tradition of this country. Where gay people have taken over as if it is normal for a man or boy to behave and act as a female and nobody is saying or doing anything about it.Keeping quiet doesn’t make things go away.A place where kidnapping or should i say adult-napping if there is an word like that have become a common occurrence ransoms are paid in millions of naira still the culprit go scot free. Where government negotiates with kidnappers and murderers and promise them amnesty instead of arresting and punishing them to teach others a lesson. Come to think of it where do these guys in the Niger delta region get their guns from? am thinking that they must have heavy backers, all these ranting will come as a surprise considering the fact that i dislike politics so much but i think there should a great change in the way things are done here. We keep talking everyday without doing anything about it,can we keep quiet for a second and think about how to bring about these changes we keep talking about? You guys know how i hate packing and moving but am so much looking forward to a move right now. I sit in traffic for hours everyday it is very painful i don’t make proper use of my own allocated 24 hours in a day. Photography has become boring because am asked to do the same things over and over again so when can someone or some people allow me to be my creative self? I started taking photographs at events at least to see different setting and people but that also is becoming boring too you see almost the same faces,comedians,performers everywhere i need something fresh and new.Where journalists publish or should i say don’t publish certain things about certain people for the fear of not either losing their jobs or even their lives.This is the only place one side of a story is published without investigating and finding out from the other side what really happened. Am so sick of reading papers where people talk about themselves as if they are a kind of demi god, if you use first class ticket to travel and sat at the first class lounge is that suppose to be news? Who cares where or what you went through to buy a dress that you can not wear more than once in public? Who cares if you have blings on you handset these are news in this country while serious issues from common people are not heard anywhere. I have stayed one year here and i think am an authority on the topic of fake people who only wants to be your friend based on what you have and not on who you really are. People who look right into your eyes and lies about every thing under the sun,they promise you heaven on earth,where people with genuine ideas can’t bring it to life because of lack of sponsors while stupid, useless,copied ideas get all the raves. If i have to move today i will gladly do it because am sick and tired of all these nonsense going around me it is more painful because i don’t really know how to bring a change,i tried as a person affecting one life at a time but it is not enough in a country with a whole lots of people. Where parents compare their good sons who haven’t made money yet to some criminals pushing them to become 419ers,drug pushers and so on. Am sick and tired of a country where criminals and ex-convicts can take governmental positions,where you can bribe your way out of anything $15million as bribe to sweep a case under the carpets yet i can’t be paid my small hard earned money that i lodged in the bank? Where federal land allocations are given to the same people who already owns the country,where the criminally rich get richer and the masses can barely feed despite working so hard all day. Where real journalists are beaten and roughed handled by bank officers and police officers for taking photographs of protesters.people do take photographs in Iraq everyday am i correct? Where you live in fear. Where everyone claims to be religious and evil abound everywhere.Where every dick,tom and harry has an NGO just to enrich themselves. I am having serious headache right now and i need to go to the bank as soon as they open their doors.
Posted By tyna 
Dec 26, 2009 
