THEOPET TONIE BLOG

DATES AND EVENTS, YOU AND ME "The eye cannot see itself" said an aged Latin Language teacher. The eye cannot see itself because the eye is not self sufficient. Humans too are not self sufficient; infact no existential phenomenon is self sufficient or self reliant. This implies that there is always a vacuum that needs filling, a condition that requires real interpersonal feeling.  This closure is met the moment friendship is built and trust achieved. This friendship whether biological or societal, exists with the unassuming values of trust, faith and love.  The friend is able to see what the other cannot see in himself, he is able to criticize what the other would call obligatory rights and Civic rights, freedom and responses. Every human being is at one point or the other blind to himself. We are at those times of our blindness condemned to voluntary mistakes and misappropriations, to ignorance and it's consequences, to naivety and failure; we are drawn into a p...

A LETTER TO A LAW STUDENT I  have chosen today not to shower you with naturally earned accolades and wishes as many would have done and are still all the more doing. I choose to remind you of the"who" you are and the "what" you are becoming.  You are a human being. The same human being that some Religions consider as the Image of God, Science refers to as Homo Sapiens, Philosophy talks of as a Complex Thinking Being, and Psychology calls a Person. It therefore implies that if every human being have the same biologically recognisable features in line with the dual gender specifications of male and female, then every human being is of equal living potential and value. It means that the value of your life is equal to the value of the life of the poor orphan kneeling and begging across the streets. You are never at anytime a more human being than the other.  What you are becoming is an upholder of Justice, a defender of human rights and a symbol of truth....

THAT EPISODE THAT SPEAKS OF                 THE HOMELESS CHILD. The pain that comes with childlessness is same with that which come with the denial of the joy of childhood, the shelter of parenthood and the comfort of neighborhood. These are supposed streams of family. When the hood that ensures family is stripped, the feeling of joy is annihilated, the assurance of shelter is shattered and the provision for comfort erased. If you really want to know who a homeless child is, then be ready to go round the circles of deprivation. That homeless child is without a guardian that is why he is homeless. If he had a parent he wouldn't have needed a guardian. Then it means he is an orphan, yet with no chance of meeting his right to dwell in the orphanage, the supposed home for his class.  It is not his unwillingness that has denied him the weirdness of an orphanage, but the attitude of indifference that has permeated deeply into the fabr...

A TOT FOR YOUNG AGED WIVES.  Growing up in a Christian family,  I’ve had so many privileges,  some of which I don’t intend mentioning on this platform. It is an obvious truth that religion enjoys the pride of being recognized along side other human concepts such as culture, society, idiosyncrasy and conscience; which shape and influence man's actions and reactions to life. These concepts also go a long way to defining the criteria for every human relationship. The nature of this definition is not relevant at this instance, because the fulcrum of the submission here is that human relationships are cardboard under certain criteria, under certain concepts.  The question whether young aged wives should keep single male friends cannot and should not be treated within any conceptual confine. Hence, the first attempt here is to project an objective outlook of the whole idea of friendship/relationship. *Note that in this periscope,  friendship would be used in ...

THAT ANCIENT STORY There is a story that was told in the past, its being told at present but it shall never be told in the future. A story of a helpless,  dependent and naive Africa. A story that describes Africa as a Charity dependent country instead of a continent. This is a story that leaves the fully muscled African youth consoled by the Trinitarian pledge "as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be world without end."  A story that sees the young African maiden swerve her way to Italy to get glued to a wealthy Italian investor. It is a story of the African that cannot survive without the philanthropic acrobatics of the Western nations. It is a story of woe!!! A story that sees a hungry family selling all they have just to get their son across Europe. A story which narrates how a 1st class graduate from an African university is made a subordinate to a 3rd class graduate from a European university. A story of neglect, an epic of woe, a ...

THEY ARE TO PROCLAIM, YOU ARE TO LIVE. In the business of literature, I have talked about a few things. Some for which I got a smile, yet many others I got a few silenced accolades. When I write, I’m not always sure that I’m actually writing what I said I would write. I see myself becoming what I’m writing about. The literary abstractions become real and what seemed fiction turns into a true life experience. I’ve come to understand that this happens only when there is a deep connection that allows my writings to permeate into my thoughts. I no longer write about what happened to that phenomenon, what might happen to that phenomenon or what is happening to the phenomenon. Rather, I see myself writing about what is actually happening to me; because my writing has become me and I have become my writing. This is exactly what happens with our lives. We spend the most of our lives   explaining ourselves to others. The authentic individual lives a life of proclamati...