What does it matter??

Hey, you just breezed past me on a bike!

hmmn, big girl like you on a bike, in V.I for that matter!

biker gurl! where were you headed this early momo?

 Wharrever! I was on a bike, and so? Well, i thought and thought about it, does it really matter? It’s a means of transportation, isn’t it? so i’m left to wonder why you would seek to rub it in that you ’saw me on a bike’, meaning you saw more than me, you saw the bike!

No doubt, there’s an increasing populace of patriots considering the worsening traffic situation. whether you do it in ’seeming secrecy’ along the rough roads and corners leading to ur home or right there in the open, in places like v.i, and on some particular crescents, could there be more to it than meets the eye? come to think of it, time is money, cabs are no options for me, i mean i can’t afford to pay so much to arrive late, Should you catch sight of me balanced on a bike, just bear with me that i must be in some sort of a hurry.

I hear it’s even ‘hearable’ for guys but for ladies? No way! Maybe not anymore o, cos looking left, right and left yet again, i find well dressed charming ladies (u cld possibly get an idea of what’s in vogue) biking along, so who am I not to join the bandwagon when occassion demands. afterall, the whole idea is to do all to His glory, yeah, including biking to His glory!

It’s so convenient that i find myself pulling up in the next available space along the road, flying a bike, all in a bid to beat some crazy traffic.

The other day, there was so much noise about a ‘celeb’ who seemed so near yet so far away from her destination, she had, apparently, been stuck for over two hours, she didn’t need anyone to convince her to do the needful, hop on a bike she did, for reals!! As for me, I’ve shaken off the dust and i really am not bothered anymore. why??

ps: do this less often if you haven’t crossed the rubicon.

Decision Making

 A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the  rest on the operational track.

The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the disused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?

Let’s take a pause to think what kind of decision we could make… Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess. Exactly, to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally.But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place? Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was.

This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him.

The great critic Leo Velski Julian who told the story said he would not try to change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train’s sirens. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track! Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe. If the train was diverted to the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake! And in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids.While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right ones.

‘Remember that what’s right isn’t always popular… and what’s popular isn’t always right.’  Everybody makes mistakes; that’s why they put erasers on pencils.  

Happy New Year!

“The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and POSSIBILITIES of the coming twelve months!”

-Edward Payson Powell.