YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER!

 Hey there, how are you doing this week? I pray we're all doing fine. Welcome to today's gist. 

I went to the market with my mum on Monday; just at the entrance of the market, we saw a man on the ground at the entrance of the market. I thought something had happened to him, maybe he was ill and fell unconscious at the market entrance but there was no one to ask, people around murmured "maybe e go drink come fall for here" but I didn't want to believe them because haba! Drinking till you fall at the entrance of a market? That's ridiculous! We went into the market, got all that we needed and when we were coming back out, he was beginning to stir. He tried to move but each time his left hand moved even slightly, he cried out, not just with words oo, with tears join. In my mind I said "Ehen! I no say something dey worry this man, no be say e dey drunk!" My mother, nurse in and out of the hospital, went to go check on his hand and as she got there, he was actually reeking of alcohol! She asked the people around him what had happened, they said he had gotten drunk somewhere and boarded a vehicle coming into Makurdi, entered into the car and passed out in drunken stupor. Toh, as the people in the car couldn't get him to stir, they dropped him off at this market just at the entrance of Makurdi town. When they got him out of the car, he slipped and fell to the ground, injuring his hand (probably broke, fractured or dislocated something). 

As we left the market and this man behind,I kept thinking to myself "how can someone just be actively doing something that is so evidently destructive to his well being? He should know better, after he is not a small child –he looks like someone who would himself be a father of children". And then it hit me, how many times do I do things that are so evidently destructive to my well being –spiritual, financial, physical, academic, social etc? A lot of times! So while I was busy judging this man for getting so drunk, me I was doing my own just that it wasn't like that. And since Monday, I've begun to search myself, I'm trying to find the ways I'm behaving like that man and working towards curbing so that I won't end up "fallen on the market ground" when I should know better.

 So I'm looking consciously at my actions and thoughts and trying to steer clear of things I should know better than being involved in. And I'm asking you, what should you know better than to do? Are you willing to take steps to actually stop them? If you already aren't, you should!

See you next week. 

Love,

Achenyo.