Ode to Children of Our Embattled Values

ODE TO CHILDREN OF OUR

EMBATTLED VALUES

Isaac Benjamin

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Published by AuthorHouse 08/27/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4918-9711-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-9712-6 (e)

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

For:

Mrs Arit Ene Eyo

Late Gen Ene Eyo

All the children in our world.

The voracious down turns shall not long be victorious

CHAPTER 1

My dear children of this great world, it is a pride to be born here, a place endowed with plenty of natural resources both human and material. It is your place of birth, the destined root while you live in mother earth. Your continent is a wonderful place to come from amid many problems that have affected our very existence. You must learn to grow up with a strong moral value that is already lost by many whose lineages you come from. You are wonderfully created irrespective of your religion and belief. You must see yourselves as coming from the same creator who is Almighty God Himself.

Always wake up early to begin your cores. Make your bed and clean the house without having to be told to do so. You must bow, kneel or adopt any form of respect that is the practice in your society for reverence to your parents or elders. You must say thank you or any act of gratitude and must be seen to have good morals.

You must not keep bad friends who will make you run away from the beauty of honesty. Learn to pray every morning you wake up before you set off for school or anything else according to what you do. You will find peace and God’s blessing in this.

Tell the truth no matter the circumstance you find yourself. And though a lot people might find you strange in this, it is this value that makes you an exceptional person. You are the oracle of the Great One, an embodiment of truth. If you grow up with this virtue, you could amount to a great leader in the future that people would depend on.

Do not argue with your parents or try to insult them. You are the apple of God’s eyes and your blessings will extend far beyond your expectations.

You are on your way to the top. Your life will not get shortened on the way up. Your destiny will not be truncated by the ills of this world. Be satisfied with what your parents give you. Do not put your eyes in other children matters. Be as rich as you could be in what your parents have. Life changes and you the sons or daughters of less moneyed parents could become presidents or the wealthiest persons in our universe.

All children that are physically challenged are like you. They carry God’s enormous blessings too. They are special people with intelligence and gifts that are invaluable. Render assistance to them when you need to because they are God’s own. Do not laugh at any of them in whatever stage of their challenge you find them. Count yourself lucky that you grow up in health and complete.

Ask questions about anything you do not understand. This will give you a clearer idea on what you are asked to do. A lot of people are shy to ask questions. If you do ask, you will have fewer mistakes about a lot of life issues. Seek the council of men who will tell you the truth. Mere commendations will not bring you good success if the person responsible for it has his tongue in their cheek.

Do not collect any gift from a stranger because a lot of them could be some agents of misfortune. Many young kids think it is easy to get thing from just anyone for the fun of it. No! Do not get gifts from anyone you do not know. What you don’t have today, you will have tomorrow. You are unique in all forms.

Be the original of yourself and don’t be an imitation of somebody else. Find some strength in what God has given you in form of talent. Do not listen to those who ridicule the choices you make. Follow the path that you have chosen and do not look back at life like Lot’s wife in the Bible in regret. You are a bundle of excellence that was carefully and marvelously made by the Great One. He spent extra time to make sure you are the perfectionist of his handiwork.

Take no chances to make your dream come to pass by working very hard. There is plenty of time to follow another path and still another road and yet another in your journey through life. Do not be afraid of the mistakes you are about to make. Life without mistake is not in this earth.

Make friends who respect you and are of good virtue. Find time to be alone sometimes. You will discover how terrific your own company could be. I enjoy my solitude because it enables me find the creativity and deep sense of peace anyone could long to have. You are able to think and make decisions that are truly sincere and full of realism.

If you try in something, say an examination and you fail; do not be full with despair. You will only need to work harder and be successful in the next attempt. Many potential personalities passed through failures too.

Smile, when speaking with others. Do not carry the problems of life on your face. The late President Franklin D. Roosevelt who is one of America’s best had his greatest asset in his one million dollar smile. This allowed other contenders to lower their guard during conversation with him at a time the world was in serious turmoil.

CHAPTER 2

Your time on earth sadly coincides with a period when honesty is on the rot. It is a time when most countries are economically bankrupt with so much poverty in the land. The people can hardly afford a meal for the day while some children will have to go to bed with empty stomachs. You were born at the time when the electricity in some countries is permanently nonexistent leaving us as though we were in the Stone Age.

The taps are shut up for ages yet bills are collected from the poor citizens. It is a time when armed banditry, kidnapping and ritual killers parade the streets with respect. You came at a time when corrupt officials are celebrated and given crowns and chieftaincy titles or national honours of some sort. It is a time that angry politicians form terrorist groups and kill innocent poor persons for want of power. It is a time that even children could be kidnapped in large numbers for a thing they know nothing about.

It is a time that was absolutely different from what it was in my over a hundred years of existence.

Do not think it is normal. Do not worry about them. Open yourself to the beauty of life. Do not envy the sons of those that steal to destroy the destiny of their people. Focus your energy to what is real and true. Put your most treasured gifts into action and begin to affect your world.

Fill your being with your own special and unique joy. Live this day with the possibilities of fulfilling your own miraculous existence. Seek the choice that will fill your heart with good results that are of great value. Rather than avoiding challenges, welcome it with hard work.

Engage yourself with at least one good deed a day. Check your To Do List and find out if you did accomplish something new. Do not procrastinate. It belongs to people who are scared of taking action.

You must frown at criminals who are Advance Fee Fraudsters (419). They are illustrious in the social strata of some societies and own the best of houses at choice areas. Do not envy them or their children for this kind of wealth is blind property. And though their parents will not put these fraudsters to blame, they are soon eaten up by their dirty wealth.

Do not be like those hoodlums that parade the streets of some countries. Many of them steal and rape innocent female passersby at night. They are not prepared to do any low income job or even learn a skill. They are constantly on the fast lane of defrauding one person or the other.

You got to this earth when bribery and corruption is the order of the day. It is a time when those in government tell lies that you children can detect so easily. Do not rebel against the honest leaders among them because God put them there and you must respect the God that placed them there.

You are the leaders of tomorrow, so you must be wise in your open discussions. Likeable people use conversation as a chance to learn about another person and issues. Advice those people that are deceitful that these things are not of God.

When people fight for their rights, do not see them as radicals who have lost morality. The world is filled with many lords that sit on peoples’ entitlements and will sack them when they raise a voice to complain. You are in a world when the love for money is more than anything else. Money, money, money is all that everyone is particular about. And parents do not disclose to their children where they get certain illegal monies from.

A certain child soldier from a war torn country in the past hid his weapons in a secret place. He will usually travel to another border town to carry out robbery. He made plenty of money without his parents trying to find out the source of his wealth. He built houses for them and flooded the compounds with different expensive cars. When he was eighteen, he ran out of luck and was intercepted at the scene of a robbery.

The police investigators asked his parent who were living under the affluence of his blood money if they knew the source of their kid’s wealth. Even his grand mother and father who all lived in the mansion built from this money did not know that all they had been enjoying was money from killed persons and many other dirty deals. The kid robber was taken away after he had spoken with his parents blaming them for all his troubles, and was executed by firing squad.

Do not allow anyone deceive you into traveling abroad for any reason except from genuine sources. There are Human Trafficking cartels in many parts of the world which could deceive local parents for very little money.

Do not believe them. They are only going to make you a sex slave workers. It is a syndicate that is owned by some heartless women called madams. As soon as they take the kids out, they abandon them to their fate. These children get chased all over the places by immigration agents. Some of them are caught and deported back to their countries.

A lot of these Madams are very rich. Do not envy them as well as the fortunate rich sex slaves who have built mansions all over the places back home. Their body is only a time bomb as it is soiled with lots of diseases and spiritual curses.

Risk being a fool and be yourself than being an extrovert and be someone else. Do not allow poverty to make your parents see you as the saviour of the family by conceding to their advice to follow the sex slave women patrons. It is not worth it. At the appointed time, you will get the benefits of hard work.

A few years ago, a pretty little girl got encouraged by her poor mother to follow the cartel. As the family was in abject poverty, she consented to her mother’s plea. They had paid her some little money in advance. She agreed to their terms innocently not knowing there was much more that she did not have knowledge about.

A particular man, who was dating her mother as her father had passed on many years ago, put so much pressure on her mother to have her go into the sex slave business. This almost ruined their closeness. Her mother began to dislike her for initially refusing to heed to her advice. Eventually, she gave in as she did not want to have her die of depression. Her mother had told her;

"Can’t you see, we are very poor and can hardly afford a meal each day? Your father died when you were only six months leaving us in this condition. You are sixteen years old and all your