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150 Years From Now by Tracingpaths: 3:05pm On Dec 25, 2022
150 Years From Now

150 years from now, none of us reading this post today will be alive. 70 percent to 100 percent of everything we are fighting over right now will be totally forgotten. Underline the word, TOTALLY.

If we go back memory lane to 150 years before us, that will be 1872, none of those that carried the world on their heads then are alive today. Almost all of us reading this will find it difficult to picture anybody's face of that era.

Pause for a while and imagine how some of them betrayed their relatives and sold them as slaves for a piece of mirror. Some killed family members just for a piece of land or tubers of yam or cowries or for a pinch of salt. Where is the yam, cowries, mirror, or salt that they were using to brag? It may sound funny to us now, but that is how silly we humans are sometimes, especially when it comes to power or trying to be relevant.

I remember those days in my secondary school, how some people fought and did so many unimaginable things just to have their names shortlisted among those to be made school Prefects. Ordinary school Prefects o! It is just about 18 years since I left secondary school, nobody in that school right now remembers that I even schooled there despite my popularity then. Now, imagine what happens after 150 years?

Even when you claim the internet age will preserve your memory, take Michael Jackson as an example. Michael Jackson died in 2009, that was just 13 years ago. Imagine the influence Michael Jackson had all over the world when he was alive. Gosh, he was like a god. How many young people of today remember him with awe, that is if they even know him? In 150 years to come, his name, when mentioned, will not ring any bell to a lot of people. This is even because he was popular, imagine the majority of people who will never be known worldwide like him?

Let us take life easy, nobody will get out of this world alive. . . The land you are fighting and ready to kill for, somebody left that land, the person is dead, rotten, and forgotten. That will also be your fate. In 150 years to come, none of the vehicles or phones we are using today to brag will be relevant. Biko, take life easy!

Let love lead. Be genuinely happy for each other. No malice, no backbiting. No jealousy. No comparison. It is not a competition. At the end of the day, we all have the same destiny in the grave. It is just a question of who gets there first, but surely we will all go there.

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Re: 150 Years From Now by Aareakinwunmi(m): 3:07pm On Dec 25, 2022
Who told you I won't be here
Re: 150 Years From Now by ecolime(m): 9:34pm On Dec 25, 2022
150 years from now

Will be chilling in my heavenly mansion by then. Hanging out with Jesus, biblical patriarchs and my loved ones.
Re: 150 Years From Now by Oluneutral: 9:51pm On Dec 25, 2022
Thanks sincerely for this post.
150 years is even too far, let's limit it to 50-70 years time.

It calls for a sober reflection for all of us.

Anytime I see or hear that someone scammed or forcefully take someone else possession or did an evil intentionally, I usually ask myself if the perpetrator of that evil thinks about what becomes of him in fifty years time.

We really need to thread softly and take life simple.
We came with nothing and with nothing we shall leave.

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