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  • Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
  • Theme: Inspirational
  • Subject: Biography / Autobiography
  • Published: 11/16/2020

The greater good.

By Judy
Born 1989, F, from Lagos/Lagos, Nigeria
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Happiness is something that draws everyones attention. Yet when blessings come people would never know how to contain themselves. Some would get over excited in that they want to be at the centre stage of it all. They want to be seen heard and talked about by all and sundry. Some really would not know how to keep in check their lust and natural caprices for man’s best desire, fame and glory! Do I need to mention, power! Yes I do.
The power to have glory ascribed to their name. When ever people feel slighted and aggrieved they turn back with lots of venom because human nature is very frail and needs to be contained because it might give way to lots of barbarism. Barbarism can be said to be, a human being behaving like an animal or some kind of a mythological beast. Yes!
In all my life time I have worked to make myself a well behaved human whilst I see others, amassing lots of knowledge on how to harness nature and how to get things done, however crude and clandestine these methods may be.
I have never been this disheartened. I understood that happiness can be gotten from dishonest means. I understood that I could be the victim. I understood that good things do not come to people so easily. I understood all this and that some may use criminal means in acquiring happiness. All my hardwork to gain intellect became a thing of the past. I faced life as it was and decided to be very asinine. It did not pay off. I became so poor and very unhappy or do I need to emphasise, unhealthy. Whilst I noticed that, others had done the same. And utility was thus very poor.
Some tasted outrightly like perfume, others tasted and smelt like stool, others like a drug, others like blood and gore. Etc. the worst part is that these things were not satisfying. They were not good only very engaging and very gory. I knew people would begin to wish there were people who wanted to be used. For so many reasons I knew that this would be the next topic on the lips of every human being because people are callously selfish. They also put before me several reasons this could be a reality.
I ignored them all because it was senseless to say the least. I remained very asinine and life was funny. It was so uneventful. I also had to endure being watched every second of the day as if the whole charade was not disgusting enough.
I came to a conclusion. In all I would say, once you are sticking by the rules, you should be confident that the law would definitely salvage you from the worst. As it did in my own case. I saw others who were surely confident they could never allow anyone use them. This is surely the truth. I am glad that on the first of august this year, 2020; God salvaged me from the violators.

The greater good.(Judy) Happiness is something that draws everyones attention. Yet when blessings come people would never know how to contain themselves. Some would get over excited in that they want to be at the centre stage of it all. They want to be seen heard and talked about by all and sundry. Some really would not know how to keep in check their lust and natural caprices for man’s best desire, fame and glory! Do I need to mention, power! Yes I do.
The power to have glory ascribed to their name. When ever people feel slighted and aggrieved they turn back with lots of venom because human nature is very frail and needs to be contained because it might give way to lots of barbarism. Barbarism can be said to be, a human being behaving like an animal or some kind of a mythological beast. Yes!
In all my life time I have worked to make myself a well behaved human whilst I see others, amassing lots of knowledge on how to harness nature and how to get things done, however crude and clandestine these methods may be.
I have never been this disheartened. I understood that happiness can be gotten from dishonest means. I understood that I could be the victim. I understood that good things do not come to people so easily. I understood all this and that some may use criminal means in acquiring happiness. All my hardwork to gain intellect became a thing of the past. I faced life as it was and decided to be very asinine. It did not pay off. I became so poor and very unhappy or do I need to emphasise, unhealthy. Whilst I noticed that, others had done the same. And utility was thus very poor.
Some tasted outrightly like perfume, others tasted and smelt like stool, others like a drug, others like blood and gore. Etc. the worst part is that these things were not satisfying. They were not good only very engaging and very gory. I knew people would begin to wish there were people who wanted to be used. For so many reasons I knew that this would be the next topic on the lips of every human being because people are callously selfish. They also put before me several reasons this could be a reality.
I ignored them all because it was senseless to say the least. I remained very asinine and life was funny. It was so uneventful. I also had to endure being watched every second of the day as if the whole charade was not disgusting enough.
I came to a conclusion. In all I would say, once you are sticking by the rules, you should be confident that the law would definitely salvage you from the worst. As it did in my own case. I saw others who were surely confident they could never allow anyone use them. This is surely the truth. I am glad that on the first of august this year, 2020; God salvaged me from the violators.

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