Don’t be empty! What is talent without information? What is vision without knowledge? Why journey without light? The one who has a map, has a destination, has the strength to go but has no light to move is just as foolish as the one without enough sense to read a map or the one without enough strength to walk and the sluggard who never got up, if not more miserable! I am talking about the one that would not read, the one that would not be part of creative conversations, the one that drives away any appeal to the intellect; that one that would never task the mind or try to remember anything; comfortable with being simple and happy to be ignorant. Following people who may be much smarter than they are; not knowing that smart people are sometimes smart enough to act foolish around the foolish simply for the pleasure of company.
These are the ones who have blockheads for friends and take advice from their company of fools. And when there is a problem, they are alone and helpless because there is no resourcefulness in their inept clique. Some have pretty faces and a suave looks, so they put their trusts in these; saying in their hearts “I cannot be successfully ignored”. They fail to understand that beauty and intelligence are not mutually exclusive. If your looks can give you something for which you do not merit intellectually, you have to be seriously dumb to think that the next smart, good looking, intellectual that comes along would not spell your dismissal, maybe not from position but sure enough, from relevance. These strange fools keep at foolishness and hold it tenaciously even as they stay away from knowledge and any form of development. They run to intelligence when they are in trouble and when they find help they are happy and mostly ungrateful; thinking that the world is as simple as their peanut minds! What a mistake, they fail to realize that tomorrow that help cannot be repeated because foolish-ingratitude is a stinking mixture to have!
These ones say: “education is not a true test of intelligence” so they fail in school. Now how foolish can you get? The strength of that statement is given, but intelligent people pass anyway. Don’t think people who pass in school fail in life because of a couple of disappointed folks you know or that people who fail in school pass in life because of some extra determined exceptions you hear about. Well hear this; in life, unless there is a drastic change, failure always leads to more failure and success to more success! You see why you must pass in school? These raving idiots pick up placards, never to protest the absence of books in the library or lecturers’ absenteeism not to talk of a change in the curriculum. No, theirs is a culture of folly and they would not be interrupted by soundness. These ones blame the system and act as victims of its deficiencies but are too blind, by reason of their vacuous minds, to see that few are still thriving all around them. They cannot give anyone sound advice yet they are the first to offer words; empty words of catastrophic consequences. They are in trouble, some feel they cannot help it, some others say: “everyone cannot be Einstein, ah ah, I have to be myself”. Well, help me ask them if being you means being a Humpty Dumty?
These ones were not born this way but they have let their light die. I see a lot of them around here and yet, in drunken fits, they are quick to pick up a protest against the ones who have christened them: “Dark Continent”. Well the light went off upstairs first before it became too obvious, it can now be seen from across the seas! Don’t let your light die. Know things, read books, be very informed, keep abreast of facts, have a mind that works so you don’t have to stare in the air for 3 whole minutes trying to figure out what would be the outcome if 27 is counted 3 times! I call you to order, today, yes, in my own unique way, but let it be clear. The truth is, we need you, we need the intelligent you, even with all your beauty and stuff you have going: these things even makes us need you the more but what can we do, if you remain simple and set the level for our interaction very low. Don’t kill your light. Why should it be you that would be regarded as “not so smart” when you can easily change that uncomplimentary remark. Have fun, play, look good, enjoy life but most importantly, don’t be empty!
These are the ones who have blockheads for friends and take advice from their company of fools. And when there is a problem, they are alone and helpless because there is no resourcefulness in their inept clique. Some have pretty faces and a suave looks, so they put their trusts in these; saying in their hearts “I cannot be successfully ignored”. They fail to understand that beauty and intelligence are not mutually exclusive. If your looks can give you something for which you do not merit intellectually, you have to be seriously dumb to think that the next smart, good looking, intellectual that comes along would not spell your dismissal, maybe not from position but sure enough, from relevance. These strange fools keep at foolishness and hold it tenaciously even as they stay away from knowledge and any form of development. They run to intelligence when they are in trouble and when they find help they are happy and mostly ungrateful; thinking that the world is as simple as their peanut minds! What a mistake, they fail to realize that tomorrow that help cannot be repeated because foolish-ingratitude is a stinking mixture to have!
These ones say: “education is not a true test of intelligence” so they fail in school. Now how foolish can you get? The strength of that statement is given, but intelligent people pass anyway. Don’t think people who pass in school fail in life because of a couple of disappointed folks you know or that people who fail in school pass in life because of some extra determined exceptions you hear about. Well hear this; in life, unless there is a drastic change, failure always leads to more failure and success to more success! You see why you must pass in school? These raving idiots pick up placards, never to protest the absence of books in the library or lecturers’ absenteeism not to talk of a change in the curriculum. No, theirs is a culture of folly and they would not be interrupted by soundness. These ones blame the system and act as victims of its deficiencies but are too blind, by reason of their vacuous minds, to see that few are still thriving all around them. They cannot give anyone sound advice yet they are the first to offer words; empty words of catastrophic consequences. They are in trouble, some feel they cannot help it, some others say: “everyone cannot be Einstein, ah ah, I have to be myself”. Well, help me ask them if being you means being a Humpty Dumty?
These ones were not born this way but they have let their light die. I see a lot of them around here and yet, in drunken fits, they are quick to pick up a protest against the ones who have christened them: “Dark Continent”. Well the light went off upstairs first before it became too obvious, it can now be seen from across the seas! Don’t let your light die. Know things, read books, be very informed, keep abreast of facts, have a mind that works so you don’t have to stare in the air for 3 whole minutes trying to figure out what would be the outcome if 27 is counted 3 times! I call you to order, today, yes, in my own unique way, but let it be clear. The truth is, we need you, we need the intelligent you, even with all your beauty and stuff you have going: these things even makes us need you the more but what can we do, if you remain simple and set the level for our interaction very low. Don’t kill your light. Why should it be you that would be regarded as “not so smart” when you can easily change that uncomplimentary remark. Have fun, play, look good, enjoy life but most importantly, don’t be empty!
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