BURNT IDENTITY - by Queensley Okon

Hi guys!!! I hope you had a lovely weekend taking care of yourself and making your father's happy? I know I did and if you don't know why I am asking this question, yesterday was Father's Day and from that look on your face, you need to make that call or text now. No thanks needed Now to our issue for the day,in case you missed it, Damini Ogulu aka Burna Boy was involved in an altercation that left two people seriously injured and another traumatized. If you don't know what happened, you can read about it but the summary is: Burna's team shot at a couple and their friends because he tried approaching the wife and she rejected his advances. Yeah, a crass behavior you might say, but haven't we gotten comfortable with this idea that as a celebrity, you should get whatever you want, whenever you want and without repercussions? You just need to be rich enough to get away with anything on this earth and it has been a pointer to some of the reasons people want what we call in slang "bastard money" Then again, we are aware not every rich person acts this way, so it probably is a pointer to what already has existed and money became the amplifier. Yes, you know we always say when people get money, they change but the truth is, they never did, you just weren't paying close attention. Habits and behaviours don't happen overnight, they are built overtime by reaction to certain events or a personal decision. Entitlement which is seen in this particular scenario develops in many ways. When you have been constantly told as a child that anything you want in the world, you can have. Wow, no consequences? Just say the word and voila, I get it? Or when you are not corrected for certain juvenile behavior, you go through life thinking you can do anything and get away with it Interesting piece of advice Of course you can get anything you want but you are not free from the consequences. So at what point do we tell ourselves the truth and work to change these harmful ideals we keep encouraging? When do we stop thinking a public statement can just be all you need to get off with anything? My guess is "NEVER" because whether we accept it or not, we have become slaves to the paper and that love is not going away anytime soon. Lana Del Rey succinctly captured it in her track "National Anthem". But really, how badly has entitlement eaten into the crop of our society?

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