Hussein I.Gebi 博文

DEAR MAN (004) ACQUIRE EDUCATION BEYOND THE CLASSROOMS "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” - Henry Ford My brother, in all your gettings, secure knowledge, acquire learning, embrace understanding, crave wisdom and nurture a curious mind that is restless for discernment. Be intentional about being intelligent and be conscious of being intellectually valuable. Appear in public and your contributions to public conversations must trigger pleasant attraction and your intervention in matters are consistently sought-after. Knowledge breeds confidence and intellect inspires composure. My Friend, your response to a dissenting argument cannot be curses and your approach to opposing political views can't be death wishes. Be desperate for wisdom son, the wise are naturally admired and the foolish are aggressively despised. In the digital age, where libraries fit inside a pocket and entire universities live within a screen, ignorance is no longer a misfortune - it is a decision. Choose otherwise. Good Evening Severally.

DEAR MAN (005) REPUTATION IS A FRAGILE ASSET - PROTECT IT AT ALL COST. In the boxing world, when Deontay Wilder lost his unbeaten record in the dismantling manner he did, he never rose from the ashes of that fall. His record left him. But worse, his mystique departed. The renowned televangelist, Jimmy Swaggart was the foremost preacher of his era and be lickened to Bishop Oyedepo in our era and in our societal context. As far back as in the 80s, Swaggart had bragged that he needed as much as $1 Million daily to keep his head above water. He wielded the word with unusual flare and captivated his listeners, the multitude that numbered hundreds of thousands in enthralling awe... However, in 1988, Jimmy Swaggart was caught red-handed in the web of adultery and that was a fall he never recovered from. He passed in 2025, but truth be told, his life already left him 37 years prior. As his reputation was lost, so did his essence flee, and without essence, what value is life? This is the cruelty of a ruined reputation: it does not always kill you. Sometimes it only empties you, and leaves you to wander the earth as a monument to what you once were. The political landscape is no different. There are men who will never rise from the lowly depths in which they currently dwell - and rightly so. There are others who have risen by chance or conspiracy of circumstances, but who carry within them the seed of their own destruction,- and it would be all to their loss of reputation. And what is the surest road to a ruined reputation? Inconsistency. The man who speaks fire today and water tomorrow will soon find that no one drinks from his river or warms themselves at his flame. Your alliances must be principled, not merely profitable. Your words must be defensible, not just eloquent. Your actions must survive the cold scrutiny of time, not just the warm applause of the moment. Be deliberate in what you say. Be definite in what you do. And when you have given your word, let the heavens move before you retreat from it. Dear Man - consistency is not merely a virtue. It is the architecture of your legacy. Guard your reputation as you would guard your breath, for the moment it departs, something in you goes with it that no apology, no reinvention, no second chance can fully restore. Dear Man, Be consistent - Guard your Name at all cost. Good Morning Severally...

DEAR MAN (006) YOU ARE NOT EL-SHADAI When fortune begins to smile upon you, a conviction will rise within you - warm, generous, and genuine - to help every soul within your reach. You are a good man, and good men feel this pull deeply. But you must find a stronger conviction to resist it. Extend your hand. By all means, pull as many as you can from the pit, for you yourself were once pulled from one but be always conscious that you cannot pull everyone, lest you too will soon join those to be pulled. The drowning do not always mean to drown you - but they will, if you are not wise. Realize you are not El-Shadai - Before you become "I Shall Die." Good Morning Severally...

DEAR MAN (007) Look around you - The world is crowded with complainers and activists who don’t ever introduce any solutions to the problems they lament about. Any fool can point at a wound. The rare man - the ideal man - arrives with a needle and thread. My brother, do not be among the chorus that names the problem. Be the hand that ends it. Don’t just be an Activist - Be the Solution - Be a Doer. Good Morning Severally...

DEAR MAN 008 - EMOTIONAL VIDEO LIFE IS FICKLE Life is fickle - not only in death, but in the quiet erosion of the things we once defined us: strength in our limbs, sharpness in our minds, and the proud memory of who we used to be. What once stood like a Palm tree may, with time, bend like a reed in the wind. The hands that once lifted mountains may one day struggle to pick a calabash. Such is the passage of life and the roaring lion of yesterday may one day whisper like the evening breeze. Time humbles us all my brother. So while the drum of your heart still beats strong, while your legs still carry you with dignity, and while the sun of your strength still stands high in the sky - BE GOOD. Therefore, while you still draw breath and walk in the full majesty of your being, plant goodness like a farmer in the rainy season - for when the harvest of life arrives, it is only what we have sown in others that will remain.