On this day, we become legendary, everything we dreamed of. He's rich and stingy, he has private jets, his own designer label, his own supermarket. He uses all the money on prostitutes, chasing girls and other titanics of wrecklessness. Then when the storms of life visit him, lightning strikes his world and his dollars are burnt to ashes. On this day, he's become legendary, he started folly elementary school, now he's in Wise University. He's wretched and poor and no one wants to help. Yes, that's right, this famous guy is poor and no one, not even his friends will come to his rescue. One controversy of life, brother. You've now graduated from being a child of foolishness to a wise man of wisdom. They were with you when it rained money, they smiled with you, laughed with you, telling people "Hey, make way for me, this is my friend." But now you're in trouble they feel ashamed to even mention your name. You call out their names and they all hide in the shadows, as if they never existed. One controversy of life my brother. While the poor were been bullied and beaten by hunger, you never even cared for them. You had money, yet people still wore bad clothes, tattered and torn with the plague of sad faces.1
On this day, we become legendary, everthing we dreamed of. She is a powerful celebrity, mighty as Beyonce, when she sings, the stars fly high in the sky. The same people, the same fans, the same crowd that brought her to power; gave her the immunity of fame. Then they find out she's a repented lesbian and the same people, the same fans, the same crowd burn her at the stake. They criticize her to death. Now she realizes her publicity is swimming in a pool of eels, her fame imprisoned in a verbal furnace. She's sad. Another controversy of life, my sister. Humans...we're lethal hypocrites. And if I say hypocrites, I mean...hypocrites. Don't worry sister, at least you've graduated from the boastful preschool to humility college. Life teaches good lessons, huh.2
My brother, maybe next time you won't be so wreckless or sister you won't be so egotistic. Life has taught you the lesson.3
And then there's Michael Jackson. Now, there's a touching story, his friends didn't cry because he died. They cried out of guilt that they didn't do anything to save him. When he was on top, it was "He's my friend! He's my friend!" But when all the money was flushed down the toilet of turmoil, all his companions and peers suddenly vanished, only a few of his relatives remained. No one was there. Why?4
Life teaches as prudent lessons. We graduate from being fools to being wiser in the school of life.5
By Kakraba Afful
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