The Internal Monologue

It Will Take Whatever It Wants. The price is always different, mainly because of our virtues, cultures, DNA, religions, and simple basic behaviours. For example, what it cost me to get a BIng didn't cost some of my mates/peers. Those who were in a class with me knew there was a guy who used to come to class with a blue cooler box full of goodies. He was the best 1st year Engineering student, and I think he later got the degree with Cum Laude. Me! I had a lot of non-school-related issues to manage, e.g., cooking, making new friends, and other village-to-city adaptations. But in the end, we all got BIng degrees after paying incurring different costs. To get where you want to go, it will cost you whatever it wants. You have to pay the price that is on your quote/bill. We are all dealt different hands by nature. It is just that it tends to take more than you initially imagined, and even more the older we get. There's just too much stuff to lose as we become risk-averse. Changing co...

The Randomness of Life and Responsibility Speaking in evolutionary terms, the fact that life exists on earth results from random processes. Even Darwinian evolution does not comfort me in its explanation of the origin of life. So it is said that were started as a single-cell organism in Africa, and that cell multiplied, and we became multicellular. Ok, on the cosmology side, they say we are in the Goldilocks zone where the parameters are just right for life on earth. So much seems to have happened by chance in the zillions. If Darwinian evolution is perfect, where are all the other species, like humans who look like you and me but don't have an appendix? The human cell is complicated enough, and the DNA makes matters worse since it contains the code of life. It all reeks of some form of intelligent design than darwin's theory of evolution. On another note, there are more than 100 million Spermatozoa per ej, which means that you are one in zillions. The idea that you made it to ...

A New Life Perspective Trusting the process actually means giving up on really trying to understand the existing system from a micro and macro perspective. You'll often hear people say trust the process. Without being too technical about it, a process is " a series of actions that you take to achieve a result. " A process has a defined start and end, with intermediate tasks and activities together with controls and disturbances. Processes are put in place to prevent you from exercising your natural instincts in decision-making; it's part of the checks and balances. Processes bring bureaucracy even in enjoyable endeavours. As said, people often like saying go through the process as a form of advice when someone is going through a difficult time that is somehow supposed to teach the particular individual a lesson. You know, one of those lessons you can learn only by going through something. Trust the process! I don't trust processes. I believe in adopting new routin...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (J.F.K.) - The President of all Time (P.O.A.T.) I don't claim to know all the presidents that ever lived or are alive, but from the list of those that I know, J.F.K stands as the greatest president of all time.  The Kennedys were born leaders. They are what is called a political family, just like the Bush family. And on the other side, we have the science families like the Bernoulli and Curie families. There is something admirable about how these families conduct themselves. We can learn a lesson or two from these specialist families. J.F.K. was the 35th President of the United States. I would vote for J.F.K. to be the President of the world government. The youngest President to ever hold the U.S. highest office. Like most people, I learned about J.F.K. from his assassination, which fascinated me to go and study a bit about his life. For sure, he was a man full of hope and, may I say, ahead of his time. And despite being catholic at a time when Americans wer...

 Sacrificial Lamb ( Take one for the team) " Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. " - said Nelson Mandela. Another quote from many prominent individuals says, " Before you change the world, you must change yourself. " This is a very uncomfortable process. Change is always hard but a constant of life. Change brings about growth. If you are like me, living in a developing (previously called 3rd-world) country, education is the only tool you can use take off the poverty jacket. Someone in the family must start or, in my own words, become a "sacrificial lamb" for everyone in the family to be set free of this default of nature. This someone is usually called a breadwinner. One person must move from the low class to the middle class and be a living example and an enabler for other family members. This one person must be the family role model. Let's not call the act of empowering family members "Black tax". We...