Why choose chaos and violence?
The past week will always be remembered by me because it was one of the best moments of my life. It's not my first time celebrating Eid or attending my hometown festival(Ojude Oba), but it felt different. I think it might be because I feel more grateful this year for the gift of everything, including family, friends, academy, relationships, and others.
Work resumes today, and I had to travel yesterday; I honestly didn't want the holiday to end because I was still in the holiday spirit. I was supposed to leave my hometown on Friday but had to wait till Sunday because there were so many people traveling on Friday and I didn't want to start struggling for a bus.
The journey started quite beautifully, and I was looking forward to reuniting with my friends at work, too, because they'd been chatting with me, asking when I would return. We had barely left the park when some men on the bus started discussing the recent massacre that happened in Benue state. Honestly, I wasn't aware of the incident until they started the conversation so I checked the internet and wish I didn't do that.
The news made me sad and heartbroken; I couldn't picture what life would mean to the families of the victims after losing their loved ones. These men discussed the government's negligence with security matters, and their conversation went from the Benue massacre to countries waging war in other parts of the world.
I was learning from their conversation but didn't know how their peaceful chat turned into an argument. A heated one that led to grown men hurling curses and fighting each other like criminals. The driver had to stop the vehicle while the passengers alighted and we were there until the fight stopped.
I was speechless and started asking if those men knew each other before because why would two strangers meet for the first time. They started chatting like responsible humans and the next thing was a serious fight threatening to kill eachother.
The fight in the bus, the killing in Benue state, and the war in different parts of the world forced me to think about how humans have comfortably chosen violence and chaos as a means of proving a point or making ourselves heard.
What happens to having a reasonable conversation? Why can't we put our differences away during conversations so that we can see the truth and conclude on something reasonable instead of chasing lies that have kept us stagnant for centuries?
Every day, there are fights and casualties around the world just because we can't hear ourselves out, we don't want to reason or care about the consequences of our actions on people. I don't see any reason why we should prefer chaos as a means of getting what we want instead of going through the right way.
Some people even choose chaos as a show of power and I don't know why. Only if we all thought deeply about the earth being a temporary place, maybe we would choose to live differently in peace with one another. Hopefully, we will be able to settle issues amicably without using our fists, guns, and bombs.
I couldn't stop thinking about the whole thing and felt like offloading my thoughts as a blog. It is just the beginning of the week, and I hope for good news not just from me but from people and places around the world.
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