Olusola Samuel's Blog

Too often, we judge people based on our own experiences and principles - forgetting that each man is different. To further portray the absurdity in this approach, consider someone claiming that 200kobo has more value than 5Naira because the former has a larger number attached to it than the later. It's obvious that the person is not taking into consideration the difference in nature of the Kobo and the Naira. The comparison is based on what the person "sees" about the Kobo and Naira, and not what he knows about them. Likewise we judge people too quickly without understanding them? How can we review a book we haven't even read? When Abraham Lincoln's wife once criticized the southern people of America for their actions, Lincoln replied:  “Don’t  criticize  them;  they  are  just  what  we  would  be  under  similar circumstances.” If we understand that other people are just reflections of who we would have been if we had gone through similar experiences

Some students got through school through cramming, after failing to prepare or prepared poorly for exams, they lock themselves a day before the exam and try to cram stuff into their head.  Then, when they get to the exam hall  they just...."La cram, LA pour". But something life has got to teach us is that, we cannot cram our way through  life. Imagine a farmer tries to "cram" through the farming process. He isn't cultivating the land early, neither is he planting the seeds early. When he needs to harvest crops someday, he will "work overnight" the day before; clearing the farm land,  planting the seeds, adding fertilizers, watering and waiting to harvest bountifully when it's dawn. You and I know the farmer is headed for failure. But this is the same approach most of us follow in our daily lives. Like in a farm, cramming doesn't work in a natural system. What about character? Can you "cram" and suddenly become a better pe