AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

Humility is the substance of what makes us flesh and blood; for to be humble is to be human and to be human is to be humble. Ultimately, it is to say that we cannot make a distinction between the two. But what essentially is humility? Humility is staying within the ambit of the human corridor. It's realizing that as humans we have limitations and having to work with that reality. Humility does not equate to timidness, it doesn't amount to abdication of your dignity in pretentious submission. Humility is holding your onion and yet realizing that you're human. To live outside of this context is to in a way seemingly disown the fact of our humanness or at best to live in pretence. Our nature as human is created in a staple imperfection, that even as much as we try to pursue perfection, we are forever deluded of it, just making the circuitious effort to attain it. God in his infinite wisdom has decided to make us human, substance of imperfection for the very reason that ...

Indeed, in the human cycle of life, a person of 59 years old is generally considered as mature and is expected to have reached a certain standard in what's overall assessment. The years of childhood with the parental support and of the exposure that comes along with puberty and growing into adulthood are all committed to making him a true, responsible adult. And at 59, so many expectations should have been met. This is ordinarily the expected. Today, Nigeria marks 59 good years of nationhood, of a nation independent and sovereign under God. It's been a long time since our political independence was birthed in the morning of October 1st, 1960, and our journey all along the years is something that, regardless of how we differently perceive it, ought to be a narrative of remarkable essence. The beauty of the processes that would eventually evolve into what was to be described as an independent Nigeria is worth reminiscing, at least if for the reason that it will get u...