₦airaland Forum

Ok, I read a post on here where this pastor, Pst. Paul Adefarasin was directing traffic on the island. According to the poster, there was commotion that prevented cars from moving due to impatience among drivers.The pastor decided to volunteer to control the traffic and in no time the traffic eased up. A happy witness recognised the pastor, took his picture and sent it with a story to a blog. Now, this action normally should be commendable, but no it wasn't. With a lot of people calling it publicity stunt and all manner of negatives, I couldn't help but think, “why are we like this?” Nigeria is such a funny place with funny people; a place where citizens see a celebrity/politician/pastor doing something good for the public or for humanity and call it a "publicity stunt" just because a picture of the act was uploaded; a place where the same set of people calling your act of kindness a publicity stunt will still be the same people asking "what has (s)he done to give back to the society?”; a place where you talk about your projects for the less privileged and these same people say, ‘it's a lie’, and if it's true they need pictures as proof. When pictures are provided as proofs, they call it a publicity stunt... Really! Then if you are not a "celebrity" and you decide to help the less privileged, orphans and widows, they call it a "show off", really! Why are we like this? Can't we be positive about things? Does it have to be negatives all the time? Hell no! I call this kind of attitude “hypocritical”! Why couldn't the majority see the good side of the "publicity stunt"?— a man who decided not to be like everybody else blowing their car horns, but came down from his comfort zone to tackle the problem, and in the end everybody plying that route benefited from that "publicity stunt". The story of the bread seller comes to mind. With a lot of people saying TY Bello did it for publicity stunt, a "publicity stunt " that changes people's lives for the better is more than welcome! Yes, let everybody condemning also do a "publicity stunt" to positively change the lives of people around them and see if Nigeria won't get better. What bothers me is that 80% of people with this kind of attitude are the youths. And we claim to be the "leaders of tomorrow" with this kind of attitude? Lol. Let's continue, and I can assure you, that tomorrow which is meant to be now will never come. Biko, let’s stop hating and begin our own "publicity stunts" that will change the lives of the people around us.

Cc seun Mynd44 lalasticlacla

Good points . Everyone thinks his actions were ostensibly for show off as to his purpose while they were done outta good heart

One thing is certain in life. No matter what you do, people will always talk. I have learnt not to allow the opinion of irrelevant people influence the way I see or do things in life. No disrespect to Nairaland, but based on my findings here, more than 70% of the people here are not very sensible. Getting majority opinion as wisdom from a site such as this is misleading. I am a member of some online communities where about 90% of the people there are intellectuals, I trust the majority votes of such sites. The opinion of most Nairalanders are like comedy to me. It's like I am already going off point...but the summary of all I'm saying is that "No-matter what you do in life, people will always talk!"

DangotePikin:
I am a member of some online communities where about 90% of the people there are intellectuals, I trust the majority votes of such sites. The opinion of most Nairalanders are like comedy to me. It's like I am already going off point.

Bros abeg no vex, can you tell me the name of those sites? I wd like to join a congregation of intellectuals abeg. Or shd I do you a pm ni? So dat we no go spoil seun market?

rudebouy:
Bros abeg no vex, can you tell me the name of those sites? I wd like to join a congregation of intellectuals abeg. Or shd I do you a pm ni? So dat we no go spoil seun market?

I'm also interested in the names of such sites

DangotePikin

amokeme:
I'm also interested in the names of such sites

Hello ma.

Me sent you a pm. I like ur way of thinking, me will like to get to know you sha.