OF CURIOSITY AND OVER-ANXIETY: THE RESULTANT EFFECT OF BEING ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING

By Anonymous -

By Exponent Samuel Adu

The writer of this piece is not oblivious of the goodness of curiosity. Of course, I'm quite aware that curiosity in most cases has been the basement or the hallmark of most fantastic innovations and witty inventions that has today alter the life of the human race.

Curiosity and her twin brother anxiety are two inseparable nature of man. Man has been curious and anxious since birth, questioning anything and everything around him even his existence. Little wonder, we have so many theorist and experts out there formulating principles and practices that we even spent four years to study in higher institutions.

Its serious.

Okies.

I know of the idea that says 'Curiosity killed the Cat' but I'm also very sure that anxiety can kill a man!
The Good Book says: Be anxious for nothing...Phil.4:6

Yes, it is not every thing that you should be inquisitive about. For God's sake, you can't even know everything. Certainly, not. A Jack of all trade, I believe, is a master of nonsense!

Trying to know and do everything can get your fingers burnt!

Yes, the story below substantiates my claims:

There is the story of this man standing by a river side. In the course of his eyes gazing at the river, enjoying the beauty of God's handiwork. He saw a notice board in the middle of the river, he tried all his best to read it but couldn't.


Agitated, curious, anxious and eager to know what was written on the notice board, he jumped inside the river. So he swam to the board in the middle of the river and read: "DANGER! CROCODILES INSIDE, PLEASE DON'T SWIM!"

Lobatan.

If and only if we can be less anxious for nothing and less curious in our unending quest to know, many homes will remain blissful, our roads will be accidents free, relationships will flourish, mortality rate would reduce, this world would be a better place.

Ok, back to our story, please help me describe the man in one word.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Of Covid-19 And The New World Order

By -
Image
It’s a brand-new era, an emergence of a new world order. We are in a season of spontaneous change, a dispensation of increase and newness. New vistas, new frontiers, new powers, globalization… A fresh dawn is right here for our lawn, scaring and starring at us. Like the breath of a fresh air, post Covid is here. All is come for our restart, replan and restrategy. To rethink and look back at our times of yore. Our struggles, pains, successes and failures. The ups and down, the conquest…and now the crown… Covid-19 came to obstruct, distruct, destruct, distract and distort our plans and programmes. We were all perplexed and swept under our feet without our consent. The entire world stood still and helpless at the face of a pandemic. The rich, the middle class, the poor and the proper paupers, the rich and advanced nations, the 3 rd world countries, the whites and the men of colour all in awe at the accompanied bedeviling nature of a pandemic. Suddenly, social-strata or call
Read more

Happy Democracy Day Nigeria!

By -
Image
We are citizens of this great country called Nigeria. Nigeria is our fatherland! No matter where we are outside her shores, we are still Nigerians! She cannot be great without our input, without our collective efforts, without our corporate social responsibility! Nigeria: Good people, Great Nation. Hmmm, I'm thinking...well, if Americans can be saying "God Bless America" despite all of their crazy laws validating same sex marriage etal, why can't Nigerians too be saying "God Bless Nigeria?”. We need to change our mentality in this country o. We need to start celebrating ourselves so that the world at large will celebrate us. We need to believe in the new Nigerian State where the true ideals of democracy will manifest. We need to speak PEACE into our Jerusalem—Nigeria so that our children will work and walk freely on our streets without any fear or terror. We cannot ALL just the praying and fasting for our land that corruption should b
Read more

OF LINDA IKEJI AND HER NEWLY BOUGHT MANSION: THE RETURN BENEFIT OF CONSISTENT HARDWORK

By Anonymous -
Image
"You will get there, if you do not stop here" -- Exponent Samuel Adu The good book is complete on the subject of diligence. “Seeth thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before Kings and not mean men” (Proverbs 22:29). Whoever says hard work is a waste of time is to me a big fool! Hard work pays. And to be precise, it’s one of the surest ways to escape hard life. Diligent, indeed, is God’s delight. When you are consistent with what you do (good or bad), you will get the result someday. That is the secret behind Linda Ikeji’s success story. Know that if you are poor, if you are not living your dreams, if all you do is to settle for less and accept that as your fate, if all you do is compare yourself to others in the bid to play the blame game, if all you do is criticise others who are making it big doing the same things or business you do, if all you do is explain your pain to no gain, and what have view, you are living a lie! Life is an individual
Read more