DON’T JUST DROP
IT
Our biggest
problems in life, most times, arise
from those things
we JUST do, because we don’t
see them as
a POTENTIAL CAUSE OF
HARM OR HARM IN
ITSELF, they’re simply
just ordinary, after all, EVERYONE’S DOING
IT!.
But STOP for a moment
and ask yourself, SHOULD I KEEP FOLLOWING THE BAND WAGON? THE
FACT THAT EVERYBODY
IS DOING IT, DOES IT MAKE
IT THE RIGHT THING
TO DO? The usual truthful
answer is NO!
YOU ARE YOU AND I AM ME, but we owe
each other some
decency, that’s why we
are co-existing (living
together)!.
Ask yourself: IN WHAT WAY HAVE I DISCIPLINED MYSELF TOWARDS MAKING MY ENVIRONMENT
DECENT ENOUGH FOR THE NEXT PERSON? .
It seems
that every invention
in Nigeria, makes our
environment dirtier, from pure
water sachets to
telecomm (MTN, Etisalat, Glo, Airtel, Starcomms, Visafone etc)
credit papers, to crude
oil exploration; but let
us look at
where the average man is
involved!.
I took
a decision, some
years back, not to DROP anything on the
floor, it either goes
straight into any available
dirt bin, or it stays
with me till
I can find one, I’m
still actively practicing
it, I keep a special
place in my bag
for empty gala/biscuit packets, pure water
sachets etc, credit papers
are for the back pocket
of my trousers.
REMEMBER THAT WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR HAND IS NOT DIRT UNTILL YOU DROP IT
ON THE FLOOR! We
often feel that
whatever we can use off, automatically
becomes dirt but that’s
not true; it only becomes
dirt when you
drop it on
the floor.
Most times, meals are more
appetizing in their
adverts, so much so that
you wish you had
the advert picture
for a meal, e.g. Indomie noodles. That’s because
if it was
laid bare without the pieces
of carrots and green
peas, and the chicken,
it would look like WHITE
WORMS! And you wouldn’t
buy it, let alone, eat
it! What does this
tell us?
THE HUMAN MIND WILL
ALWAYS APPRECIATE WHAT
LOOKS GOOD!
Our vision of
“abroad/overseas” is usually
some clean environment, with clean
water and clean air, that we
would like to be in, and that’s
where our vision stops! What
we don’t remember
is that a spirit
didn’t come down
to clean the place up, it
simply took some level
of discipline over-time by the
immediate members of that environment
not to litter their environment.
PERSISTENCE PAYS and CONSISTENCY WILL ALWAYS YIELD
RESULTS, the issue is: IN WHAT
DIRECTION AM I PERSISTING AND BEING
CONSISTENT IN? The truthful answer is : Most
times, in the wrong direction!
Imagine an
open field of green
grass, neatly kept, always appealing to the eyes! Imagine
that you drop
a piece of paper on it, and imagine also that
others also drop their own
pieces, from pure water
sachets to sweet to gala
and biscuit packets, then
there’s rainfall and it’s
all smeared over with
dust and sand. If you
are good with
imaginations, what you’ll arrive
at, will make the initially beautiful
green grass field, now
irritating and ugly! You
wouldn’t even want
to look at it, let
alone be in it!.
WHAT THEN IS TO BE
DONE?
Make a
decision today about
that expendable, used-off thing
in your hand, that piece
of paper, credit paper,
pure water sachet, biscuit, candy(sweets) and Chewing
gum packet.
DON’T JUST DROP IT, DROP
IT IN A DIRT BIN, DROP IT RIGHT!
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Written By: AKANIMO INIM
INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT, BETTER NIGERIA
COURTESY: BETTER NIGERIA
08067912880,
07031113927, 08101383588
No.
7 Barr. J.J. Edem Avenue Aks , Nigeria ,
West Africa
