SOME TIPS ABOUT LIFE::::;;;;;;;;

1.  You really would not know the importance of your small hurt until you are asked out of someone's mansion.

2. You will not know the value of your immediate family until you are shunned by those you love and have trust for, thinking u have a place in their heart.

3. We are only lucky when those you fill you are helping or supporting show us their true colours on time. What if you never new before you became old?

4. God is God always but, men represent him differently for their selfish interest.

5. You should alway let people see the outcome of your plans not the plan itself  because, they always want to be a step or more ahead of u.

6. Remember he who decides to come with a very big set of teeth for the sake of food should be prepared to also develop the lips good enough to cover it up. That is to say------ who so ever is born to this earth should be prepared to break down obstacles too.

7." The world is changing", the world never changes, instead  humanity is changing.

 A tale in EDO my home land.

 THE TALE OF ODIGIE AND HIS GOAT .
       This story was told to us when we were very young, Odigie was a very obedient child to his father all through and the father was rich in goats. this good son called odigie took very good care of the goats that the goats were also fund of him as well. The father became very old then
 bowed to the cold hands of death. Odigie being his only son inherited all that the father had that means including all the goats, then nown even more than befor he loved and cared for these goats.
A time came when he had a very poor harvest from his farm and, he requested a divine help. He was also divinely devised to sacrifice one of his goats to appeal the gods; He was never happy, and he refused to do so and bared all that came after that including hunger that was very terrible that he was almost losing  his own child. This time he was ready to part with anything because the life of his child was at stake. Then he was confused and he ran back for a divine help again. This time he was asked to sacrifice two of his goat.
Oh! poor odigie, he ran home confused, he love his child and as well love his goats (this is the real tale: what comes first in the life of a man, what do you take first or what is more important to you). Despite all, he went home to properly care for his child. while he was doing this he cried all day.
One day he set out of his home to get some herb for his child still crying, he heard someone whispering and he turned, he saw an old woman and then he quickly greated. Then the old woman asked him never to warry about herbs that he should pretend living the house, go round and come stay in her house. He accepted and did exactly as told.
To hos greatest surprise he heard his own goat singing "odigie has goat salelele, alelesa, he could not kill for his father, salele alelesa, he could not kill for his mother salele alelesaaaaaa".there and then he cried out his sorrows, thank the old woman and went back home disappointed.
   When he got home, he went to his child held his child to himself for a while and put back his son, went straight to his bed side took his cutlass, file and some salt. He took out some time to sharpen his cutlass to the best of his ability and kept it back quietly. The dawn of the nest morning he desided to sacrifice some goats to apeal the gods. After that the life of the son was spered, his farm gave him a better yeald and he was happy one's again


The truth about this life is that we can not eat our cake and still have it,
We give out one to get other,
We should always define where our loyalty lies,
Obay calls first
Always pray.

To the blessed memory of my mum who told me this story.

WHAT A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1..............

Take out time to think!!!!!

                    
           We live in a world were men love them selves only but, makes u believe u are their best. If you show to men that u know what they are, you have succeeded in showing your self the greatest wickedness. "Amongst sheep and wolves you are going to live, be as wise as the serpent and, as calm as the dove". It is expedient you read the scripture most time, because there are so many great wisdom therein. Men deals with you and look straight, see your action and then pattern how best to live with you. If you are terrifying, they scare off you and term to give you all what you need so as to get what they need from you. But if you are the type that never need any trouble and never express any form of resistance, if not lucky you are doomed. May God never allow this on us  his children, and give us all the ability to recognise one, when ever they come our way and resist them. Sometime the smart ones wants to refer to this action of your's as wickedness on your part, it is never wickedness, you've only resisted them from fooling you at that material time. Imagine if christ the  greatest master on earth allowed him self to be fooled, definitely he won't have been able to accomplished God plans for man. This happens in our societies, home, family units and every where today.
    Imagine if men are not self centered, give and take as necessary, there will be no need for a discussions like this, even there wouldn't have been need for jesus christ to have come earth the first place.
A TRUE STORY :- A certain family grew around in my neighbourhood that i so much love, tho a single mother. There four, both mother and children. The eldest whom was a young man is    the hard working type. He does almost all the domestic work as well most errant work too. I noticed his younger barely does any thing at home. If you ask the mother about the others, she would say "they are inside O! stubborn children", Really they are inside either reading or watching TV. They both really went to the university. Today they are both living well today. The eldest young man some day got married and had children, he also lent a trade, tho lived with the mother, because he can not reason anything for himself. Guess what!!!!!!!!!!!! Some day i saw him. more or less a mutant. May God help this situation because i wept for him.
  Help, support, give, work for people, show love but not foolishly 
                                            

terror

                                                       

OH! MY WIFE.................

     A MAN IN ALL HIS WISDOM goes out in search of the greatest load in his life. He is so serious about it that even when a very close brother wants to lend him a hand, he bluntly refuses any offer. He jealously guide his load and never allows any man to even touch it.'
     I strongly believe that a man always love their wife. All that a man does to his wife is simply out of love and jealousy, tho sometime it is over blown that it becomes like "wickedness".
    If a woman is ready to always say to her husband "OK" what should we do? The love is going to grow with LOVE and RESPECT. Happiness all the way tho little clash as usual.
 This i fill is a perfect marriage. Life is what we go about with wisdom.
LOVE IS LIFE!

THE TORTOISE WITH A BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER.......

 The Tortoise

THERE was once a king who was very powerful. He had great influence over the wild beasts and animals. Now the tortoise was looked upon as the wisest of all beasts and men. This king had a son named Osazuwa, to whom he gave fifty young girls as wives, but the prince did not like any of them. The king was very angry at this, and made a law that if any man had a daughter who was finer than the prince's wives, and who found favour in his son's eyes, the girl herself and her father and mother should be killed.
Now about this time the tortoise and his wife had a daughter who was very beautiful. The mother thought it was not safe to keep such a fine child, as the prince might fall in love with her, so she told her husband that her daughter ought to be killed and thrown away into the bush. The tortoise, however, was unwilling, and hid her until she was three years old. One day, when both the tortoise and his wife were away on their farm, the king's son happened to be hunting near their house, and saw a bird perched on the top of the fence round the house. The bird was watching the little girl, and was so entranced with her beauty that he did not notice the prince coming. The prince shot the bird with his bow and arrow, and it dropped inside the fence, so the prince sent his servant to gather it. While the servant was looking for the bird he came across the little girl, and was so struck with her form, that he immediately returned to his master and told him what he had seen. The prince then broke down the fence and found the child, and fell in love with her at once. He stayed and talked with her for a long time, until at last she agreed to become his wife. He then went home, but concealed from his father the fact that he had fallen in love with the beautiful daughter of the tortoise.
But the next morning he sent for the treasurer, and got sixty pieces of cloth[1] and three hundred rods,[2] and sent them to the tortoise. Then in the early afternoon he went down to the tortoise's house, and told him that he wished to marry his daughter. The tortoise saw at once that what he had dreaded had come to pass, and that his life was in danger, so he told the prince that if the king knew, he would kill not only himself (the tortoise), but also his wife and daughter. The prince replied that he would be killed himself before he allowed
the tortoise and his wife and daughter to be killed. Eventually, after much argument, the tortoise consented, and agreed to hand his daughter to the prince as his wife when she arrived at the proper age. Then the prince went home and told his mother what he had done. She was in great distress at the thought that she would lose her son, of whom she was very proud, as she knew that when the king heard of his son's disobedience he would kill him. However, the queen, although she knew how angry her husband would be, wanted her son to marry the girl he had fallen in love with, so she went to the tortoise and gave him some money, clothes, yams, and palm-oil as further dowry on her son's behalf in order that the tortoise should not give his daughter to another man. For the next five years the prince was constantly with the tortoise's daughter, whose name was Imose, and when she was about to be put in the fatting house, the prince told his father that he was going to take Imose as his wife. On hearing this the king was very angry, and sent word all round his kingdom that all people should come on a certain day to the marketplace to hear the palaver. When the appointed day arrived the market-place was quite full of people, and the stones belonging to the king and queen were placed in the middle of the market-place.
When the king and queen arrived all the people stood up and greeted them, and they then sat down on their stones. The king then told his attendants
[1. The fatting house is a room where a girl is kept for some weeks previous to her marriage. She is given plenty of food, and made as fat as possible, as fatness is looked upon as a great beauty in the land.]
to bring the girl Imose before him. When she arrived the king was quite astonished at her beauty. He then told the people that he had sent for them to tell them that he was angry with his son for disobeying him and taking Imose as his wife without his knowledge, but that now he had seen her himself he had to acknowledge that she was very beautiful, and that his son had made a good choice. He would therefore forgive his son.
Imose
When the people saw the girl they agreed that she was very fine and quite worthy of being the prince's wife, and begged the king to cancel the law he had made altogether, and the king agreed and as the law had been made in the land, he called the elders and told them that the order was cancelled throughout his kingdom, and that for the future no one would be killed who had a daughter more beautiful than the prince's wives, and gave the elders palm wine and money to remove the law, and
sent them away. Then he declared that the tortoise's daughter, Imose, should marry his son, and he made them marry the same day. A great feast was then given which lasted for fifty days, and the king killed five cows and gave all the people plenty of foo-foo[1] and palm-oil chop, and placed a large number of pots of palm wine in the streets for the people to drink as they liked. The women brought a big play to the king's compound, and there was singing and dancing kept up day and night during the whole time. The prince and his companions also played in the market square. When the feast was over the king gave half of his kingdom to the tortoise to rule over, and three hundred slaves to work on his farm. The prince also gave his father-in-law two hundred women and one hundred girls to work for him, so the tortoise became one of the richest men in the kingdom. The prince and his wife lived together for a good many years until the king died, when the prince ruled in his place. And all this shows that the tortoise is the wisest of all men and animals.

    We should always be proud for whom we are at all times ..........

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How The Tortoise Got His Crooked Shell

A little tale from africa, nigeria.

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A long time ago, a terrible famine hit the animal kingdom. It had't rained for a whole years and all of their crops were dying. The animals hoped and prayed for an end to the terrible drought, but the sky was no longer able to gather.                                                                                                                                 The cunning tortoise, lived on the outskirts of the village with his wife and two sons.
The famine was very bad and was already having a devastating effect on all the animals, so tortoise could no longer trick them into parting with what little rations of food they had.
One morning, very tired and hungry, the tortoise left his house with the intention of searching the marketplace for scraps of food, but there was no food in the market, and so the tortoise remained as hungry as ever.
 However, just as the tortoise was about to return home he saw the rabbit,
                                                                                                                                       hopping towards the marketplace. There was something strange about the rabbit. He looked better, well fed, and full of life. But tortoise was curious. So he approached the rabbit with his head bowed as if he were in mourning. Then he began to cry.                   
When rabbit saw tortoise, he rushed to meet him. ‘What is it, my friend?’ asked kindly the rabbit.
    Then tortoise answered, ‘My father is ill. My wife is expecting our third child but she is so hungry that I fear for her health too  because there is nothing I can do!’
rabbit was suspicious because it was well known that the tortoise was very treakish  and could not always be trusted. But the tortoise was an excellent performer and soon won the rabbit’s sympathy.
‘Meet me at home after dark,’ said rabbit. ‘I will help you in spite of my doubts. I just hope that I do not regret this.’
Soon it was night, and tortoise set out into the darkness to find rebbit waiting at the home. Once they had said their hellos, both animals made their way into the deep forest: the rabbit leading the way while the tortoise followed closely behind.
Before long, they came to a narrow path that led to an open clearing among the trees in the middle of the forest.  
The rabbit stopped and pulled the tortoise to his side. ‘What you are about to see must be kept a secret, do you understand?’ The tortoise nodded in agreement and the rabbit cupped his hands around his mouth and began to sing...
 Suddenly, a long, white rope descended from the sky. Rabbit grabbed the rope and began to climb.  After hesitating for just a moment, tortoise also took a hold of the rope and followed the rabbit up into the night sky.
The rabbit and the tortoise climbed and climbed until they got to the very top of the rope where there was a magnificent, fluffy cloud shaped like a door. The door opened, and there stood a kindly old rabbit with a smile upon her face.
‘Mother!’ exclaimed the rabbit in a joyful voice as he embraced the old rabbit. ‘This is my friend Ijapa who has come for supper.’
Rabbit’s mother welcomed tortoise. ‘Come in and eat with us. I have just set the table.’
The sight that met tortoise eyes made him gasp. There was a large table laden with the most sumptuous foods he had ever seen. There were exotic fruits and fresh fish of all types marinated and cooked with herbs. There was also rice and yam and mouth watering soups. The hungry tortoise dug in immediately and ate everything that he could get his hands on.
‘Don’t eat too much,’ rabbit cautioned, ‘or you will not be able to climb back down the rope and walk back to the village.’
The tortoise continued to eat until eventually he slumped back in his chair and gazed sheepishly around the room, his belly protruding like a huge balloon.
After they had rested for a while, rabbit decided that it was time to return home. tortoise rubbed his large belly, got to his feet very slowly, and made his way to the door.

‘No thank you,’ replied tortoise ‘I am too full in my belly to carry any food with me.’
And so rabbit’s mother let down the rope and the rabbit and the tortoise descended back into the forest and went their separate ways home.
When tortoise got home his family were still sleeping, so he crept into his bed, covered himself up with his blanket, and fell into a deep sleep for twelve hours.
When he eventually awoke, tortoise was very hungry. ‘I need food,’ he thought to himself. ‘I need food and I need it now.’
It was then that tortoise had an idea. ‘I will go back to rabbit’s house while he is still at work. I will think of some lies to tell his mother when she let’s down the rope, and I will fill my belly once again.’
When tortoise arrived at the open space in the forest, he cleared his throat and began to sing the same song that Ehoro had sung the previous night...
 The trouble was, Ijapa had a rather husky voice and the song did not sound as beautiful or as heartfelt as when it was sung by Ehoro.
‘That does not sound like my son,’ thought rabbit’s mother. The old rabbit hesitated for a moment, but eventually she decided to let down the rope. ‘Perhaps he has caught a cold,’ she thought, as she lowered the rope into the clearing below. 
The mischievous tortoise was delighted to see the rope fall to the ground and he quickly grabbed it with both hands and began to climb as fast as he could.
tortoise was half way up the rope when he heard a voice shouting from the forest below.
‘Hey, where do you think you’re going? Come back down at once!’
It was rabbit, and he sounded very angry. ‘Mother, we’ve been tricked!’ shouted the rabbit.  Still tortoise continued to climb the rope, his mind full of thoughts of the feast awaiting him above.
Rabbit called out to his mother again, but again nothing happened.  And so the tortoise continued to climb up the rope into the clouds.
Rabbit cleared his throat, took a very deep breath, and began to sing to his mother up in the clouds...
     When rabbit’s mother heard her son’s voice she exclaimed, ‘now that is my son! But who was the first caller?’ The old rabbit peeped through the clouds to see what was happening below. That was when she saw the tortoise climbing up the rope towards her.
Mother,’ shouted rabbit from far below, ‘cut the rope!’
The old rabbit fetched a large carving knife and began to cut at the rope. At first it seemed as if the rope was made of iron and that the knife would have no effect at all. But rabbit’s mother continued to hack at the rope with all her might and soon there was only a very thin strand left for the tortoise to hang onto. Then the old rabbit gave the rope a final hack with the knife and whooooaaaahhhh! tortoise went tumbling down towards the forest below.
The winds carried tortoise back and forth, tossing him around in the sky until he landed heavily on his back in the forest. Unfortunately for him, the only thing to cushion his fall was a big rock that was sitting on the forest floor. When he landed on the rock, tortoise shell cracked in so many places that it ended up looking like a jigsaw puzzle.
The tortoise awoke many hours later.  He was very dazed, but he was able to move and found that he was not in very much pain after all.  But his shell remained like a jigsaw puzzle and would never again return to the lovely, smooth, round shape it was before. 

                WE MUST LEARN NEVER TO OUTSMART OUR TEACHER OR FRIENDS!!!!!!!!

A LIFE WE GUARD WITH ALL...

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                     Imagine the life of a man. we are defiantly going to die. But have you ever imagine what it cost most men to protect it. If a man decides to work eat, get all basic necessities of life, there will be room for the other man that could be referred to as "enemy" to same life and never see us as an enemy. This simply gives us peace  amongst men, room for development as a community. Wisdom is of God, you have to seek it to be happy.......