LETTER TO TREKKERS
From The Desk Of Jaybee,
CEO Mature Minds Talk,
Lagos, Nigeria.
19/05/2015
14:00
To My Fellow Nigerian Out There Trekking.
Hello there,
How’s the
task coming off? I’m sure you guys have heard it’s Season of the trekkers, as
some has called it, which is a good title but not as cool to my hearing as what
I’ll call “The trekking business”. ('They'll' still come and say Jaybee is just a business fanatic).
Many years
ago, the World Health Organization came up with one of their numerous research
results that said the urge to trek is the first symptom of madness. Well, I’m
not going to disprove W.H.O guys but I guess they just weren’t open minded
enough to see the business opportunity that lied right in transporting yourself
from one place to another with your natural vehicle in the name of a top
politician in your country. We are Africans, we are developing, and hence, we
see opportunities in everything… symptom of madness or not.
I don’t
really get the drift of this trekking up and down the country like we’re
reliving early civilization ages but 1 thing I know for sure is that we
Africans like to imitate! Imitation is one of the core materials flowing in our
blood. A couple of months ago, a diehard supporter of the president elect,
who’ve keenly followed his course of coming shy of winning the result of
presidential polls three times vowed that if this result came out in the
president elect’s favour, he would embark on a foot journey, which as a man of
his word after his prayer was answered, he did… and of course, got rewarded for
it.
The first
question I have for other trekkers is: Can’t you guys be original? If someone
decides to trek and he got rewards for it, must you embark on the same quest
and expect the same rewards? You can contact me for a lot more other cool ways
to show loyalty or appreciation or whatever it is you guys think you’re showing
to your political heroes and I promise you, these ideas are not life and health
endangering, hasn’t been taken already, and yes, it bears less symptoms of
madness (Less cos there’s a stint of madness in every creativity.)
Another
question I ask myself and would like you guys to help me out is: If you guys
were gainfully employed or rather as I preach to most youths, gainfully
self-employed. Would you dare abandon your businesses to take on the useless
task of loitering from one place to another? Pardon my selection of words here.
I’ve not pressed cltr+P but seriously, I’m just wondering. Your task is just a
pointer for the incoming government to one of the pressing needs of Nigerian
youth – Employment (Jobs and Opportunities) abundance of it would go a long way
in hindering crappy business/money making ideas from finding its way into the
heads of graduates who are supposed to be either be running their businesses or
working for money but in the absence of that have decided to walk for money.
Lastly, I
would just want to advice those guys who are planning to trek from Nigeria to
Mecca on the 30th of May to visit these three people before
embarking on that adventure. A spiritual leader (for special prayers), A
psychologist (to make sure they’re really ok) and a physician (to state clear
the health risk involved.) Not sure all you trekkers know they’re better
businesses that don’t pose threats to both your external and internal organs
and if it’s loyalty or appreciation and it’s not about the money (I know it’s
almost always about the money), then there other creative ideas you guys could
reason out amidst yourselves or ask for.
As for me, rather than trekking, I'll pray for the incoming government. Hope this one would be the one ordained to lead our great country with countless potentials out of the wilderness to the promise land we all have at one point or the other dreamt about.
Please if
this little piece can be forwarded till it gets to any of the trekkers, then
you just might have helped someone. But if you’re hell bent on trekking for
whichever politician it is you use as an alibi to hide your symptoms, I say
good luck to you.
Happy
Trekking and have a wonderful life ahead.
Peace!
Yours Truly,
Jaybee
Mature Minds Talk.
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