Digital Jesus

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"When antidepressants cost money, money buys happiness."

— Random Facebook User.

But is this really true?

When you are penniless, stripped down to kobi, you begin to think about Money and all the happiness it brings.

But then you also hear, Money is not everything. And it's always seems to be the rich who say this.

Which is now true?

I tell you, there are certain statements—even thoughts—your financial situation keeps you from making, because they are words that can only come out of a mouth that have tasted privilege. Because they are lessons experience teaches you to take note of.

You can't constantly worry where the next meal will come from and think money doesn't buy happiness, can you?

When a Rich woman says "Money isn't everything", she has experienced what her money had to give and still came up empty, still lacking that fulfilment.

A rich man who dies despite having a heart transplant goes to his grave knowing money isn't everything. But he has had a chance at happiness and good health with his money and still could not get it.

Happiness is within us, they say.

It is true. You can live in a run down apartment, always have 1k in your account, owe MTN 2,997 Naira and NEPA and have a shining light inside of you. Happy as a pig rolling in mud.

But as a Nigerian living in poverty, you're just a sickness away from having your fulfilment permanently stopped.

There's a constant threat to your life when you are poor.

1. Money gives you a fighting chance.

You need to experience life in different degrees: take trips, medical check-ups, live a better quality of life in order for you to decide if money won't do anything for your happiness.

2. Money empowers you to give others that fighting chance.
Like Toyin Omotoso has done.

So yes, all what you heard about money is true, except "Money is the root of all evil"😂

In all your getting, get money. It's better to cry in mercedes than a danfo. I mean, it's more convenient.

©CJ

No action is alone.

We humans are too in tune with our personalities and our interactions with the world to have any "random" action.

Even if you can't explain a certain decision, you'll come to see it doesn't stray too far away from your essence.

Sometimes it is rooted in cause and effect. Inspired by factors bigger than ourselves, like the environment for starters.

Take for example, the butterfly effect.

The butterfly effect is a concept used to explain how our actions are so important that a slight change in them will alter future events.

So yes, imagine your dad frequented the bar, and met a woman who came in with her friends from out of town for a birthday party, who later became your mother.
If he hadn't gone to the club that day, he would most likely not have met her, and you'd not have been born.

Single actions trigger a series of events that would not have happened if an action had not taken place.

Therefore decisions make for bitter consequences, or graceful rewards.


This is a new week. As you go out today, be more intentional.

Do that laundry. Make that call. Sign up for that course. Make that music. Send that application.

The world is vast and beyond our fingertips, but you have been given some amount of control.

Use it wisely or face the consequences and regret later.

©CJ