Entry 4
How do you react when you hear of a misfortune that befalls another that gods be good, is just a name to you? Say the kidnapping of the tegina toddlers, the drowning of 150+ travellers from Kebbi, the death of a jobseeker in Akwa Ibom? the slumping and death of a fellow student hitherto unknown to you until the day the person bought the farm. Do you sigh? Pray for the repose of their souls? thank God for his Mercy, that it wasn't you? Cry for 'em? Or just read the news as though it were just another case of ill-luck that has a given statistical probability of occurring, a probability that varies by person, time and circumstance? Give reasons how or why the ill-fortune is deserved or how the unfortunate fellow should have avoided it? Personally, I feel that the only wrong response this the one that points to a set of values which makes one feel special, insulated, as though one is not part of the collective human Enterprise, foibles and all. A response that points to a set of fastly held false beliefs about the world. And I don't mean wrong in the moral sense. I mean in the pragmatic sense of being incorrect, error-prone. And while it would have been much better for such a response to be kept to oneself, some deem it fit to inflict it on the sensibilities of the rest of us. Well, I am on my way to my IT location, already an hour late. Sleep is such a precious commodity, sure it is worth a couple of reprimands. Progress wise, I am getting more and more capable in repairing phones...phones that I can afford to replace for their owners if misfortune happens to befall 'em in my hands (No iPhone 11 pro max for me thank you). At Slot, I have had the Fortune of meeting very capable instructors and talented interns(there's a reason it's one of the largest in the Federation). But then quality comes at a price...and a pretty steep one in some cases. Or so it appears to me anyways. I just got down from the BRT at the time of writing, and while there's a pedestrian bridge a couple of meters in front of me, like the dozen or so Nigerians with me, I cross the road with multiple vehicles charging towards us from both directions. Seven save us all.

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