Before anything else, I must say “Blogging no easy oh!” if you have any doubts about this, check the date of my last post…
Moving on, I’ve been wondering about passions since yesterday. No, I’m not referring to the kind that’s unleashed in steamy red-lit bedrooms (snap out of that daydream!), I’m referring to the sort that drives dreams and ambitions. You know that feeling that people like Steve Jobs and other famous AND successful folks are known for.
Unfortunately, I’m not about to laud this forceful feeling (that topic has probably been milked dry any ways). Passion, drive and ambition are great. They are the stuff that communities and civilization are founded upon… but what happens when a person gets more than a healthy dosage?
When does a person cross that invisible but potent line between “I want this so bad, I will give my best to get it and “I want this so bad, it’s do or die!” You don’t think this possible? Welcome to the lives of Lagos Politician Al-Mustaim Abaniwonda and Motunrayo Agbara.
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| Motunrayo Agbara |
Until Monday, 18th July, 2011 Al-Mustaim Abaniwonda was a member of the Nigerian political party PDP as well as a Lagos State ministerial nominee. Whether his loss of the race for a political office had any bearing on his sudden dead on Monday has been the subject of several heated debates. Word around town is Mr. Abaniwonda walk away from his car and driver and ultimately committed suicide in the Lagos Lagoon.
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| Abaniwonda Al-Mustaim |
26 year old Motunrayo Agbara is said to have been jilted by her boyfriend and after contemplations and inspired by depression, ended up hanging from a rope in her room on the same day Mr Abaniwonda ended his life.
Out of respect for the dead I would try not to speak of these people in rude or speculative terms but I can’t help wondering how an entire existence can be shrunk so narrowly into a single individual or achievement?! So what if he doesn’t like the ways your eyes are set or that you speak with a drawl? Isn’t he but one in a billion alternatives? And, what if I can’t own property in Banana Island or Park View Estate? I would take a BQ in Abaranje or Ijaiye-Ifako over a rectangular confined space in the ground any day! But then again, may be I’m not highly motivated sha…
