Random Reflections Of A Sound Mind.

A throwback photo of when I was clean shaven with beard courtesy of the Face App . Anytime a trend goes viral on social media, be it  # BottleCapChallenge  or  # MannequinChallenge , someone, somewhere, usually dives DEEP into the Atlantic ocean, in order to share DEEP thoughts as to the redundance of the exercise. Sometimes these 'deep' posts hold valuable nuggets and other times, not so much. I have done this a few times in the past, but today is not my turn and this is not that kind of post! Some things that happen in this world, are designed to not be deep—they're just for fun, relaxation and entertainment. Looking for the significance in those kind of activities, will be missing the intent. The face app by FaceApp Inc is one such things: its not for taking a picture for your international passport neither does it hold any eternal spiritual significance. The app had gone viral before in 2017 and it did so again recently with people sharing light hearted pi...

Photo by  olivia maia  on  Unsplash Look very carefully at the picture attached to the bottom of this paragraph. It does not come close in aesthetics to many pictures taken by an average smart phone. But there's an interesting story behind it. One that makes it more significant than 10,000 spectacular HD selfies!  source:  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) On the 5th of September, 1977, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft, named Voyager 1, on a one-way mission into space. Its primary assignment was to drive by Saturn and Jupiter to collect and send back information about those planets as it made its way out of our solar system. It successfully did this and sent interesting data and pictures of these planets. Adding to our collective knowledge of our universe. However, this post is about one other unscheduled picture it took some 13 years into its flight.  On the 14 of February, 1990, NASA remotely instructed the spa...

Can I tell you something that you can take to the bank? About your close friends and some of the awesome people you have around you now, not all of them will always be on the same page with you: believe as you do or share your values, or even like you. Take that to the bank! Some will eventually move from an active role in your life to become, well wishers from afar, others strangers, and even enemies! This is not necessarily a bad thing—life happens. It is impractical to expect all your friends from Secondary school, university days or even from your former association to still stay in touch exactly the same way they did when you were all in one social construct. Of course, some will but notice that, that number that stays constantly in touch is usually less than a 'tithe'. If they're more than that percentage, you're either Warren Buffet, Nelson Mandela or Jim Carrey (you're probably thinking that that last line makes no sense, trust me, I...

I logged into my Facebook profile on Tuesday night, after a simple 3 months offline exercise and had hundreds of, mostly unrelated,  notifications ('Bura Bari changed his Cover photo', 'Osayuwamen Favour Nosakhare commented on HER status', 'Abel posted a a picture with 42 others'...who e epp and how e take concern me?) Along with the barrage of notifications were a couple of friend requests. One of the requests was odd, in that it was from a white woman. A real, white woman. No, I'm not one of those freaked by meeting people of another race. It's just that you almost can't trust many European or American friend requests you get; especially from young beautiful 'women'. The sender is probably in one off campus lodge, in Nigeria (but trust the Filipino accounts, they're real—real recruiters for Alliance in Motion Global). That aside, I have been waiting for a big business connect from 'The Abroad'. And this white woman ...

THE CLASS 'COCONUT HEAD' Remember growing up and having that one classmate everybody thought was so dumb? Most likely, you met several in the course of your primary, secondary and maybe even university education. It just seemed that these ones couldn't understand the simplest of concepts. They started needing a scientific calculator from when the topic was simply grasping how to sing A, B, C, Ds and Log table for counting 1 to 27. Usually their failure in anything academic was so predictable that whenever the class teacher called them up to read a passage or answer a question, everyone got ready to laugh! If it was a reading exercise, they'd be painfully slow in covering a short passage and in that, they'd still make several hard to recognize pronunciations of seemingly simple words, like pronouncing 'Pak-ah-Gee' for 'package, 'Deh-nai-see' for 'Denise', 'Nahai-cee' for 'Nice', 'Kee-ked' for 'kicked...

When a guy graduates, gets a job and moves out of his parent's house; no one has issues with it. In fact, it's deemed maturity—he has become responsible. We clap for him; 'Papilo, you've made us proud!' But it is almost controversial, for ladies to move out of the family house, even the ones working and doing well. The family opposes it and society generally frowns at it: it's almost looked on as immoral. It's reasonable some times that fathers are unwilling to allow their working daughters move out, considering how young, graduates are these days and then security concerns of a female living alone in these perilous times. So most females who are single and live alone, do so ONLY because they work in a different city from their parents plus it may be economical of having rent for just one residence. Now, I'm not blind to those legitimate reasons for parents wanting to hold back their daughters neither am I just saying,...

  Gentlemen, When your female friend gets married, no matter how close you guys were, or what you shared, respect her husband, refrain from too much Okra soup , so as to not allow your destiny to be sliding into, building a tent and living in her DM. Even when the last thing on your mind is physical or emotional intimacy, it's advisable to keep non-essential private interactions with a married friend at reasonable minimum or just the essentials—you can't be chatting up a married friend, every other day for long periods na— your mother didn't give birth to a sheep!   I guess this applies to females and their married male friends too.  This is not suggesting that married people should drop or totally block out all previous friends of opposite gender, this is saying; you can't be chatting them up or relating like that, as it used to be. This post is inspired by what I observed somewhere on IG: a young man's convo on a married woman...