06/12/2023
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Dear brethren, there is no shortage of real-life examples of agape type of Love for humanity, but by any measure, the example; ‘Jesus laid down his life for us,’ overwhelms whatsoever a mortal has given to humanity. It is an irreducible template of love which everyone needs to have, not just in ‘speech but with actions and in truth,’ therefore, there is no justifiable reasons for not to be kind – Love – to one another. On the same token, in her commencement speech at the American University College of Arts & Sciences 2019 Graduate Class, Novelist and Essayist Chimamanda Adichie shared the experience, she had with a centurion African-American lady whose name is Vivian Bailee. In verbatim, Adichie narrates thus: “Last year, I met a remarkable woman called Vivian Bailee, she was born in 1918, here, in Washington DC. She is a tiny African-American woman, 100 years old, and since she retired from government in 1975. She’s raising money to send care packages to serving members of the armed forces. She’s raised money to make sure that children from an underserved public school close to her, get to go on field trips, and when she was asked why she did so much while having so little, she said, quite simply; ‘I like to keep busy.’”
Emphasizing what she grasped from the story, Adichie said; “Vivian Bailee taught me, that real human impact is never about quantity, is always about quality.”
The story further gives credence to the Welfare Package, and such act must remain with us as we desire the old bowel.
Gravitate towards one another; many of you has an introversion trait, but with forthright interactions, pains and challenges can be revealed to each other. In that case, do not whine, and do not make coax jokes out of it. Be genuinely concerned with actionable suggestions. By this act, the efficacy of being kind to one another would simply replace the gulf of differences between us with smart bridges. Remember, those you are kind to, would not forget!
Ladies and gents, the very essence you’re on campus is to achieve a dream. But do understand that dreams are free, but realities are not. It is on this premise that I want to remarkably close, but not without a mention of a few current realities to your hearings to help you understand things you really need, to achieve the dreams. Have you heard of a man who commercialized his undergraduate chemistry project? Have you used Soul Mate hair cream? Sir Ndukwe Osogho-Ajala owns Soul Mate company. Now you know, he’s a Nigerian, who, in about 25 years ago, established an economic prosperity from a final year project. Soul Mate has over 500 employees with presence in the United States of America, and other developed nations.
.. An excerpt from the text titled "A Path to Old Bowel" delivered at the Welfare Day of Cele FutaFuta on October 26, 2019 (2/3).
