It’s easier to destroy than to build.
THE BUILDING PATH …
I remembered a very close friend and secondary school classmate
of mine who confided in me her confusion and that of her mums over the
frustration of her god parents (she is Catholic) inability to bear children
despite their enormous wealth, and their futile effort to adopt my friend as
their child. My friends mum refused to part with her last child – she was
blessed with three – to people she claimed to love and who had the means to
ensure her child’s well-being. She loved them, yes, but she loved her daughter
more. How could she give her up suddenly when she had labored for months to
give birth to her, and suffered sleepless nights through the years to watch
over her daughter, watch her crawl, take her first steps, stay patient for
months till she is able to call her ‘mummy’, and grow into a fine teenager. She
couldn’t just give out her daughter like she was a birthday gift bought with
money from a corner shop.
THE DESTROYING PATH …
A pistol is pointed at the head of a young doctor as he sits
in his corolla at Anthony, Lagos. Panic! Gbam! The hand holding the pistol let
go the trigger and the bullet fires straight into the skull of the gentleman at
point blank. Irawo Adamolekun did not survive the attack.
The assailant, according to an eye witness account, calmly
walked to the other side of the road, mounts a bike and sped off.
Perhaps the assailant has no understanding of the process of
giving birth and nurturing, which is a continuous and pleasantly tumultuous journey
as I have explained above.
If he knew the pains some childless couple go through to
bear children, or if he knew what those who already have them go through to
train them, or had he been aware that Irawo Adamolekun, the young man’s life he
took was the only surviving son of his parents before his untimely death may be
he wouldn’t have been too quick to pull the trigger for whatever reasons,
robbery or otherwise.
It is not his lack of conscience that bothers me though, it’s
the scary message the incident sends of how severely porous our environment has
become security wise. Of how easily anyone with a gun or any other weapon can
walk up to anyone they don’t see eyeball to eyeball with and settle scores with
in the blink of an eye.
Mind you it could be you or someone you know or somebody
someone you know knows.
It’s so easy, very easy, too easy to destroy than to build.
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