WE CAUSED IT ALL (YOUR THOUGHTS)

May the souls of everyone we lost on June 3rd, 2012 rest in perfect peace
even if they are not victims of the ill-fated Dana flight or the Boko
Haram bombing in Bauchi. Death is an end to life and it can never make u
laff instead of cry no matter the circumstance surrounding it even for
those who died voluntarily by surrendering to fate due to a disease. With
that said let me get to the main reason I am writing this piece. Our
Thots.

Before you read on please note that this article/essay or piece, call it
whatever you may, is not to slander or mock anyone who died on June 3rd,
2012, it is to preach a new way of thinking and bringing into existence a
newness that is positive just by accessing our thought process.

Eventually, we are what we think. Am sure we all have heard the saying
‘There’s no vacuum in the world’? If you have not heard it before or read
it somewhere,then you are reading it now and that makes you one of those
that have come across that line. For a few months now, many of us as
‘Lagosians’ and as Nigerians at large have nursed the thought of what will
happen if Boko come to the West, specifically Lagos. We might all want to
deny it now but I am sure deep down in our heart we know we are reading
the truth. And nature, as it has been programmed to do, reacted to our
wish the best way it can. Let me go back to what I said in the beginning
of this paragraph “There is no vacuum in the world”. Our thoughts were
creating a vacuum, a picture of burning houses with people crying for
loved ones lost is exactly what happens when a suicide bomber rams his car
against a church or any other establishment in the north and since BH can
not just change base and come to Lagos without losing its essence, nature
has to respond and give us what we all have been thinking about but prays
never happen. So one day you are sitting in your house and you hear an
explosion. Your first thought, especially if its just the sound you heard
before seeing the actual incident, will be BH. The same thing can be said
for the church in Bauchi. Many people around that area and even some
people who attended the church would have thought or prayed as the case
may be that they do not become a victim of the terrorist group BH, many
have even nursed the thought and then prayed against it. What we all
should understand is this. Talking/Asking/Praying is different from
thinking. When you think things and u imagine it as if it they were, it
eventually happens when you continuously feed the thought especially in
the case of a crowd.

Have you ever wondered why you lose a job you were odds on favorite to
get? Or why your car just stops on third mainland bridge without a reason
or why your girlfriend just calls you up to break up with you even when
the going is good? Simple answer. As humans, when we think of the good,
one part of our being nurses evil beneath and it takes a great deal of
practice for us to overcome that inherent cry for sadness in us. A Yoruba
adage says ‘T’ibi T’ire la da ile aye’ meaning the world was created with
both good and evil, side by side. They both have a way of balancing
themselves out but we play a major role in making this balance work for or
against us even in praying against good/evil as the case may be.

Think about how many incidents you have heard people say ‘this man/woman
has always been praying against this thing and it eventually happens to
him/her’. This is not to say prayer does not work or that prayer works in
the opposite direction. Please check your bible or Koran. It will state
that our prayers are basically faith-based. In other words, if I want a
car and I pray about it, think about it, act on having a car, I will
eventually have a car forget how it will happen. But if while praying for
a car I nurse the thought of dying in a car accident and even though I
pray against dying in a car accident, there is a 70% Chance that I might
die in a car accident, be it the one I just bought or another person’s.
Thus when the said accident happens you’ll hear people say stuff like ‘he
always prays against car accident’ and stuffs like that. Another issue
that is not related to the incident of yesterday but is a great example of
our thought process is the ‘gay’ issue. We, the world over, have
encouraged its growth even in condemning it. Every time we mention it, it
takes root, everytime we fight it, it germinates because we have made it a
focus. You want something to stop? Don’t make it the center of your thots.
In fact banish every thought of it and gradually it’ll die. (Apologies to
any gay person reading this but I don’t just believe anyone is born gay,
people choose to become gay and its sad because there’s so much to gain
from the opposite sex)

The whole thought process of what I have been trying to say is this. You
want to be rich? Think, pray, work toward becoming rich and the world will
bring you riches. You want to have enemies everywhere, think about it,
pray against them,note that, pray against them(even when they don’t exist)
and you will have enemies everywhere.
Our thoughts play a major role in who/what we eventually turn out to be in
life. Where many people see/think an obstacle, a few sees an opportunity
and they rise above the crowd and even though this works like magic it is
not an instant thing for blacks/Africans unless you are 2-3 years old just
forming your own thoughts and reading this(am assuming we all know why I
said this). Mastering our thoughts is one of the hardest things to do in
life especially because we have lived so long without caring or knowing
what we think matters. So even while you think,act,pray for what you want,
that personal conviction does not just come in a day or a week or a month.
It takes a while and that is if you even remember to mind your thoughts.
Whatever you want for yourself. Plant the seed in the field of thoughts,
make it germinate by acting it, it will become real if nature sees that
you want it so badly (Oops goodly)