OPEN LETTER TO ALL NIGERIANS



Arise, O compatriots

Nigeria’s call obey

To serve our fatherland

With love and strength and faith

The labour of our heroes past

Shall never be in vain

To serve with heart and might

One nation bound in freedom

Peace and unity.



Oh God of creation

Direct our noble cause

Guide our leaders right

Help our youth the truth to know

In love and honesty to grow

And living just and true

Great lofty heights attain

To build a nation where peace

And justice shall reign



So many people want to get rich but we always approach the situation from a very wrong angle. Yes, it is true our nation needs to be arranged to enable the best standard of living of the citizens but still, we really are not helping the situations from our own ways of living.

Our lifestyle and thinking are so bad that we only focus on getting wealthy and thus we wake up each day strategizing on how to place ourselves to get money. Hmmm!! I write with sadness and deep bitterness to all Nigerians.

If only we would think and strategize on how to better another’s life and forget about the system, I speak to you right now, things would have been very easy. It is very sad to always know that individuals only want to focus on how to become great so that they’ll keep telling everyone they come across about their success story.

*sigh* It is expected of us to think about how to make our nation a great nation by blessing the less privileged among us and using the qualities in us to initiate those who haven’t discover their talents or those who haven’t mastered their skills to become a positive change agent and promote creativity through any means of awareness and development.

How do we move forward when everyone is thinking about getting money? How do we move forward when everyone just wants to focus only on his/her path? How do we move forward when all we ever want to do is narrate our success story and make others sad. Seriously? Is this how we want our country to move forward? Is this how things will be better? Is this how we’ll continue until the end?

Our thinking needs to change. Our lifestyle needs to change. We all must change. We must change for the best. Those born with a silver spoon should render assistance to those born without a silver spoon.

Most of the popular sayings are really turning us into monsters. For example, let’s look at this saying by Bill Gates — ‘If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.’ So many people are turning to monsters because of this. This saying is contrary to what most of us think. Do you think it is telling us to only think and strategize about getting money? Do you think it is telling us to make others suffer just because we want to get rich? No! Before I tell the meaning, do we even know what it means to be wealthy? Do we know what it means not to die poor? You’re wealthy when you’ve caused a great impact on another’s life. You’re wealthy when you’ve successfully made others to also help others. You’re wealthy when others have been able to fully discover their talents through you. You’re wealthy when others have been able to master their skills through you. If only we would allow all this to always drive our everyday life then we would all die wealthy.

*sigh* I am very sad and you’ve successfully read my blood and sweat. Hear O people! Use the qualities in you to make tomorrow better. It is time to create and share with the world.



Yours in writing

David

Davidleinvictor@yahoo.com

Originally posted on http://goal.org.ng/blog/2017/07/03/open-letter-nigerians/

Nice one.