Our doubts are our traitors, and make us loose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt."

You don't belong to the crowd. You are not here to be ignored or avoided. Nobody ever gets noticed in the crowd. Until you stand out you can never be a standard. The people who became references in life are those who dared to stand out. Don't be afraid to be different. To be different means to separate yourself from the crowd. To follow the crowd is to remain uncelebrated. Don't be afraid to attempt new things.

Don't be afraid to take risks. Learn to take advantage of your favourable qualities and skills (both known and unknown). Until you stand out you will never discover some of your abilities. No one can give you recognition or reward you in the crowd.

Stand out and be counted. Those who follow the crowd sooner or later get lost and fizzle out.

Men of purpose are those who refuse to go with the flow. Men of will are those who ultimately become standards for others to follow. Don't leave the shores of this life in oblivion, unnoticed and uncelebrated. Dare to be different.

You can never make a mark in the crowd. If you know what to do, where to go, and what to stand for, if you have clarified your values and priorities, if you know you are here on a mission, go for it.

You don't belon to the crowd or the group of go no where's, spectators and busy bodies.

(Franklin Delano Roosevelt says, " The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts about today, let us go forward with strong and active faith." dare to stand out, dare to take risk, dare
to make a statement, dare to lunch out, dare to make an impact, dare to be different. He who dares is he who eventually wins.

The world is waiting for you.

Written by Olabamiji Blessing(a.k.a B-Lab comedian)

Nigerians are very prone to laughing, we were once classified as the happiest people on earth. A walk through the major streets of some states and you will see men drinking and laughing heartily while women sway their hips to music blaring out loud from speakers.

There is poverty in the land but people still find a way to smile and enjoy themselves, Nigerians are very happy people, jolly good fellows I must say. Everything is a joke in this nation, even serious issues that affects our lives, trust that indomitable Nigerian spirit to make it funny.

In my small room, I look out into the Nigerian world, to see, enjoy and maybe get a little of that infectious Nigerian happiness, what I see is pain etched on people's faces, no salaries for civil servants, rising costs of food stuffs, increase in transport fares et al but surprisingly we are laughing. We are laughing through the pain, smiling and going about our business as if nothing is wrong with the body polity.

The failure of some state governments to pay salaries to workers has now been turned into an avenue for jokes, hitherto big men, men who lorded over all and anything that crossed their paths, men who strutted around like peacocks, begging for money to feed their families, pride is gone, self respect is gone, fees must be paid and children must be fed but surprisingly we are laughing.

Strike actions have hit some states, workers sitting at home while some take to subsistence farming, tilling the ground, fellow citizens pass and make fun of them with screams of "agbe loba", and these civil servants cum farmers laugh and bemoan their circumstances to them and proclaim their faith that everything would turn around soon. Talk about people with abundance of faith and you can point at the average Nigerian.

We get into the bus in the morning and the conductor says the fare has increased by fifty naira, after the initial frown and curses under the breath, we pay and when we get down at our bus stop, we laugh because another passenger has said something funny or in our own way we just have to laugh even at the most mundane of things.

When you don't have light for four days, you curse and curse the authorities until you run out of curses and your children wonder amongst themselves, "what is wrong with daddy? suddenly, power is restored, a smile draws across your face and your children scream "up nepa" or is it "Fashola ti de". Laughter is restored and we go about our normal duties. I have always wondered if there is not something beautiful about waiting for power to be restored, the sheer unpredictability of it, just sitting there waiting and frustrated and the next minute you are leaping for joy.

We are in serious traffic caused by bad roads after years of neglect and allocation of billions of naira, we hurl abuses at each other in frustration, men taking of jackets because of the heat and desperately looking at wristwatches to see if they can still make it on time to work, drivers hurl abuses at each other claiming Mr A cannot drive properly, after hours of insults and shouting from fellow drivers and street touts turned emergency traffic wardens, we escape the gridlock and get to our various destinations and begin to relay our stories to our different colleagues and make jokes of the situation we found ourselves earlier.

The President is sick, we are told it is an ear infection and will need to see specialists in London, the political and moral correctness of that has already been debated upon. Some wish him well, others laugh at his predicament and say he is deaf and say no wonder he has not been listening to the plight of Nigerians and begin to laugh because as usual we are a people prone to laughing.

Restiveness has reared its head again in the Niger delta, pipelines are blown up and our commonwealth is wasted and the environment is put in grave danger, a few who want the government to fail begin to laugh and rejoice in the acts of brigandage as if that would do them and our nation any good.

Nigerians are always laughing, we are a joyous people.

From the corner of my room, I have looked out at the Nigerian world, I recoil into my bed and ask, are we ever serious? I have put my thoughts down and as I turn to sleep, I burst out laughing because I too must laugh.

🍏Living a life worth differs of things, that are yet to be disclose to the general public. But our character, behavior and attitude do speak much about the worth of even been alive itself.

🍍I put this to you, never have you been good; hmmm "your response to happenings in your environs determines what you are, either good or bad"
"BE BRAVE ABOUT LIFE"

🍋Sit there and start to think on how many had suffered under you, when you hold things to yourself alone. Shut up you know what am talking about.
"BE CHEERFUL"

🍉Oh! Moving up and down ranting all about something that is not worthing it. "Healthily HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE is real". You don't need to rant on someone when he or she had failed to do something.
" BE CALM"

OLORUNSOMO SMART ADEOLA

CEO: SMART360NEWS