EQUILIBRIUM OF LIFE, AFFLUENCE MAN AND HIS FISHPOND

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re is a man with superiority in his kingdom. He has lots of gardens filled with beautiful structures. This man also has a fishpond in which he rears great number of fish, which he feeds constantly. And they [fish] reproduce.

Being an influencial and highly connected person, he does host guests on daily basis and serves them delicacies made with the pond’s fish. He has someone assign with duties of catching the fish.

Life of the fish seems stagnant. They are born, they watch others born, they learn that death is the inevitable end, they watch others fish being taken up ‘die’. Thus they grow with understandable anxieties and helplessness of mortalities…

The fish enjoyingly dwell in the present pleasures, forgetting core purposes of living. If not today, probably tomorrow. Who knows the next fish to? Why not let the water rest? Why splitting, causing semi-earthquakes? Why eating co-fish?

Just many whys…..

The farmer that uses hoes to till earth everyday should be conscious that the hoe will be used to park earth on him one day…..

God is the Superior that owns you, myself and all that’s created. He puts us all on earth to serve purposes. And the Agent of Death to be the fishpond’s Hunter. To hunt you and me, the fish when the time ripe.

By: ADEBAYO SIROJDEEN OPEYEMI

Edited by: Jimoh Taofik Adekunle