GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Monday, August 11, 2014

ROBIN WILLIAMS, ANOTHER CRY FOR HELP GONE UNANSWERED?

Icheoku says yet again another American rich and famous person has killed himself; dead by hanging, in an apparent suicide escapism from this world of agony and so much trouble. When the world's millions, especially the have not, are jealously looking at the lives of the rich and famous and praying that they could someday attain such "glorious" status and enjoy what it has to offer, here makes an exit from that privileged world, one of such richly "blessed" persons? Comedian and actor Robbin Williams apparently has had enough of the 'glamorous' life and decided to end it and he  hung himself. Robbin was 63years old.

Icheoku laments the greatest irony known to man called life, which keeps people guessing and misjudging what it is that is really truly important; hence their dissipating of  energies wrongly, in pursuit of an elusive happiness which they think money and fame beget and/or guarantee.  Unfortunately, Robin Williams has once again shattered this myth and put paid to this delusion by taking his own life despite being so richly "blessed" with materiality and fame. Icheoku asks is it not yet another irony that a comedian who makes other people to laugh, could not himself find laughter and happiness in this world? Needless to add that his numerous mansions, exotic cars, fat bank accounts, privileges and access could not provide him the courage to carry on soldiering with this life? 

The moral lesson derivable from Robin Williams' suicide is that no matter one's condition or standing in life, what is most important or should be paramount in life is to find some meaning and fulfillment in one's life and by so doing have a reason to live for. Like Angelina Jolie-Pitt who loves children and is adopting them from everywhere and is also herself giving birth to many, and thus finds fulfillment in doing that, Icheoku opines that people, including the rich and famous, should always find something outside their boxed life to immerse themselves in and by so doing remain positively occupied, and will not have any downtime for depression to creep in. Psychosis, manic depression and/or such other psychological imbalances often times thrive when there is a vacuum in the sufferer's life? A rule of the thumb, because nature abhors vacuum, something will always fill in such fallowed spaces including sometimes mental disturbance. 

Robin Williams now joins other rich and famous American actors who decided to fast-tack their exit from this world this year including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mikey Jagger's girlfriend L'Wren Scott and a host of many others. Icheoku says whether their deaths were ruled accidental overdose or suicide, it does not really matter. What is important is that they achieved their set-out objective which is to put an end to their pain and suffering of living? These 'cornered' people, call them victims if you like, desired one thing and one thing only - to just end their forlorn life of misery and escape their unhappiness. It is also instructive that taking their life is usually not the first option, but it comes after  various addictions could not help them get rid of their monkey; despite the illusion of "happily ever after" Eldorado of happiness and fulfillment which the uninformed world holds of their  lives. 

Icheoku maintains that these "victims" were internally disturbed, they were unhappy, they were lonely and in vain, silently cried out for help which never came and in some cases was a little too late in coming. In short these people were victims of a cruel world which they successfully made happy and which they made to laugh with their creative works, but which world could not and did not reciprocate their infectiousness. As a result, they felt betrayed,  they felt disappointed and they pined and panged away. Their cry for help was drowned out in the cacophony of the limelight and with it the gradual ebbing of their lives until they finally find the courage or cowardice to pull the trigger. Robbin Williams suicide by hanging once again shows that money or riches or fame does not buy happiness; or have you ever seen a happy person who is contemplating suicide? Icheoku says Robbin Williams has regrettably now  joined the annals of such lost souls, may he now rest; may he now find the peace, joy and happiness which eluded him here on earth in the life beyond, Adieu Rob! 

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