Dad, Mom
The overarching value you put in us, even from my infancy, was how to value life. You both lived for others! I'm grateful I saw it, and imbibed it. I've tried to pass this on as well. At least, I'm striving.
We watch in horror today as people actively destroy lives across the globe, and find it difficult to sleep. When those people are so-called leaders, wasting their own citizens for the sake of political or ethnic or religious power, we bleed!
Who is to know what a leader could turn out to be or become when they are voted into, or forcibly take, office? But murdering your own people to stay in office is blatant and utterly bad. I am being very polite, Mom, very polite.
It is a human failing. We've had our unfair shave in Nigeria, too. Which is how we can understand and sympathize and empathize with others in its throes. And why we as a nation must, and do, ask our country to speak up for all oppressed peoples around the world; and to always act with others to bring succour and solidarity to all such peoples - as groups, as individuals.
Today is my birthday; my thoughts for the day.
Love
Dayo
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