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, April 12, 2021

QUEEN AND PRINCE PHILLIP'S LOVE WAS EXEMPLARY: SHE WILL MISS HIM MUCH.

"You will wear the crown of the people and I will wear the pants/trousers of the family. That way we will have a cordial, mutually respectful, long lasting relationship. You will be the Queen of England and I will be your husband and the man of the household." ICHEOKU says accordingly to the story, this is what Prince Phillip said to his  wife Queen Eliza when she was coronated Queen of England and it seems to have worked out so wonderfully well for the extraordinary coupe who spent 73 years of marital life together. 

Exactly the secret recipe for any successful marriage, definitive expectations; and each spouse respectfully maintaining their respective lanes of power and authority. Such leaves no room for confusion or the constant bumping into each other's sphere of responsibility due to muddled up terms without clarity. The Queen and Prince Philip's marital longevity is a testament that such clearly stipulated expectations really works. Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburg, was originally from Greece, a nation which understands how best a marriage works and he proved that he mastered the art of matrimony with the Queen of England. His wife, the  Queen, on her part is a good woman who respected her husband as the head of the household, despite being the head of all England and the Commonwealth. ICHEOKU says their union and longevity should be a recommended text of study for people wishing to enter into a marital relationship.  

ICHEOKU says you can easily decipher partners' love for each other by the way they look at themselves. There is this intense look of admiration, like you are looking at some precious beautiful work of art of inestimable value and cannot seem to ever have enough of it. A feeling of, is this real or am I in a dreamland wondering if I am this lucky to have the privilege of being with the person. You easily breaks out a smile for no apparent reason in particular, any time you are with the person or looking at the person or even thinks about the person. You are never tired of sharing your space with the person and every moment together is treasured and you wish it will last forever. It creates a lot of bubbles of joy in the heart and you desire the person's presence around you unceasingly. This was what the Prince and his Queen had for each other, which presupposes that a hole which cannot be filled has been left in the Queen's heart now that her soulmate has gone to rest.

It is a true definition of love which seldom obtains these days. She was richer than him when they met and remained so throughout their 73 years together, but that did not diminish him in her sight and estimation. She respected him as her husband. So, his money or lack of it did not buy her love which gives credence to the saying that money cannot buy love. They had a wonderful companionship too and of course their fair share of fights behind closed doors as couples do, but what held them together was greater and that was what exactly counted. But that is not to say that money cannot buy you a person or the company of a person, but it cannot ever buy you true love and real companionship, the type that pulls on the heart strings. Simply put, love is indescribable and you only feels it to know it. Queen Eliza loved her man and he loved her back; and they stood by each other right to the end. It was a thing of beauty to behold.  

ICHEOKU says is very impressed by their example and hopes the world of marital couples will be similarly impressed by the power of their example too. The only downside of such heartily bonding is that at such a time like present, when one of the spouse departs, it is hellish for the surviving spouse who will become literally lost without her companion and confidant of so many years. It leads to inconsolable grieving and a feeling of a cascading darkness rushing in to envelope your now empty world. So, it is understandable how empty the Queen must be feeling right now without her Prince Phillip; but nature called and nobody lives forever. They had a wonderful long life together and he will live in her memory as long as she too shall live. May the soul of Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh and the late husband of Queen Eliza of England now rest and may God provide her Majesty the fortitude to cope with his departure. What a couple. 

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