Friday 27th October 2017
Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First
Hello and welcome to
#MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 53
Title: Stop
Whining, Man Up!!
Have
you ever been in the company of someone whose major stock in trade is
"whining"? oh dear, you would wish to be transported out of his or
her presence by an unseen private jet. The other day, I was in the company of
one. I didn't even know he was to be my seat neighbour because he started his
whining right from the departure hall, nothing was right, the workers were
sloppy, the security men was distracted, some girls were dressed to kill and
then they complain of being raped; on and on
he went. I was seated first and then came the other seat neighbour, and
then the man. As soon as he sat down and fastened his seat belt, he introduced
himself to me and as courtesy would demand, I also introduced myself to him; and
because I was already conscious that he was the grumbling type, I set my
antenna at high alert, to douse whatever he would want to talk about before it
turns into a major topic for whining but was I wrong, oh yes, because he caught
me off guard despite that I was on high alert, he pretended to be discussing
the weather - the sunny, the high and the low e.t.c and then suddenly he veered
off into the topic of Nigeria's Economic Weather lol!! He said that Nigeria is
all but dead now and I was like if Nigeria is dead why are we still living in
it? he asked if I have not heard of the living dead before, I said I had but
that they still lived in a "living Country" he then went to town to
talk on how the economy has been killed by its managers, how they have refused
to diversify the economy and made it 98% dependent on oil, how oil will soon
finish and then Nigeria will finish, how the Niger Delta region that is the
goose laying the golden egg has suffered from severe deprivation and environmental
pollution and how successive governments have played politics with cleaning up
the region, you won't believe that for more than 30 minutes, his voice was
still speaking, I thought to myself that the man must love hearing the sound of
his voice and so when he took a breath, I quickly chipped in, "and what is
your stake in all these? I asked him. then came the answer I knew was going to
come; what should be my stake? I am just a citizen, I am not in Government and
infact they won't even give people like us political appointments because we do
not fit into their rabble rouser mode. I reminded him that citizens too have
roles to play in good governance, and he was quick to answer me that those in
government keep the citizens mesmerized by poverty that they hardly are able to
play any roles at all and fortunately we were on the ground and I had to
"escape" from his company to take a breath of fresh air. But
seriously, though whining is part of human nature, I mean who would come out
clean and say s/he has never whined? but does it stop at that? what are you
doing about that for which you constantly and persistently whine about? It's
not just enough to point out what is wrong, it's not enough to point accusing
fingers, it's not enough to tell the world where the man who is working has
erred, what is your contribution? if you have a superior argument, why not
present it and then watch whether it can be accepted or not? The times we are
in now call for seriousness. If you have nothing to do about a situation, then
keep quiet, but if you have a solution, stop whining and just man it up. Be the
man or woman you ought to be.
Until I come your way
again, this is #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst
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