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Student @ University of Ibadan.
Irony of Life i
<p>Arguments and Fallacies </p><p>Fantasies and realities</p><p><br/></p><p>The young desire to be older</p><p>Ride the latest vehicle</p><p>live in mansions bui<span style="background-color: transparent;">ilt </span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">With wishes for blocks and fantasies for roofs.</span></p><p><br/></p><p>They desire to, </p><p><br/></p><p>Experience freedom beyond limit</p><p>Little do they know, freedom is having alot to do</p><p>Yet, the necessaries alone is one's final choice. </p><p><br/></p><p>Have the strength to do and undo </p><p>They don't know, strength is staying away from painful pleasures and sorrowful joy...</p><p><br/></p><p>They don't even know that pride </p><p>Is simply thinking you've achieved it all, only by the sweat of your brows </p><p><br/></p><p>They mistake lust for love ,romance for marriage, and su<span style="background-color: transparent;">bmission for weakness </span></p><p>Meanwhile marriage is dedication, submission is help and love is sacrifice </p><p><br/></p><p>They don't know that courage</p><p>Is acting with a pounding heart and a trembling mind</p><p><br/></p><p>They don't know that hope in hopelessness</p><p>It the definition of hope </p><p><br/></p><p>A pity..... The childish mind can't even imagine ,</p><p>The season of cold nights , when you have to be your own shield. </p><p>When you have to be tough and sturdy. At the same time, retain your honest heart and pure mind. </p><p>When you constantly have to fight yourself so that your true self can emerge</p><p><br/></p><p>On the other hand, </p><p><br/></p><p>The old wish to be far younger </p><p>Go back to the time of innocence </p><p>When you had the protective covering of parents </p><p>When your world consist of food, play and school</p><p>When the components of life are not yet complex </p><p>When your friends have not yet become strangers </p><p>When relationships have not yet become strained </p><p>When school is a burden on Monday mornings</p><p>Mathematics class interpreters as war zone </p><p>Fridays and Saturdays are nothing but fun days </p><p>Sunday schools of songs, rhymes, biscuits and cakes</p><p>When all you ever wanted......was to be a grown up. </p><p><br/></p><p>A mind that know is a mind that is free </p><p>What you ought to know is time continues </p><p>Irreversible and consistent </p><p>At whatever stage in your life you wake up to reality </p><p>At whatever stage in your life your mind becomes enlightened</p><p>At that point, </p><p>neither seek to redo your past</p><p>else, you put yourself in an endless loop </p><p>Nor burden your mind with the possibilities of the future</p><p>Else, you lose yourself to anxiety </p><p><br/></p><p>Either way,</p><p>You'll keep experiencing same thing over and over </p><p>One may think he's making progress... Fallacy</p><p><br/></p><p>There is no future unless you let go of the past. </p>
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