I go volunteering at the church every Wednesday. Yesterday was not an exception.
While going about it, someone mentioned something about snakes shedding their skin -ecdysis.
By the way, did you know that from approximately 3,400 species of snakes, only about 600 are venomous, and they use their venom for hunting and defence?
I’m not saying people should go about petting snakes!
But the idea of snakes shedding their skin is a philosophy. Snakes shed their skins between four and twelve times in a year, depending on their age.
Let’s look at New Year’s resolutions.
So many would have gone to church, mosque, or ojubo to make resolutions. Others would have been indoors doing the same, while others would have gone to the scene of what they wanted to banish, to do it for the last time.
Hmm…
Unfortunately, some of them would have resumed doing the very thing they promised not to do at the next nanosecond.
I would rather be an omoluwabi, than make resolutions that I know would be jettisoned at the very next opportunity.
The omoluwabi concept involves courage, hard work, humility and respect.
Have heads of government resolved to make our world more peaceful and hunger-free?
Have terrorists resolved to stop harming other human beings?
Have citizens resolved to speak truth to power?
One could go on and on!
Resolutions shouldn’t be a one-day affair; it’s the omoluwabi in us that should propel us to do good, not at every nanosecond, but doing good should be inbuilt so that we wouldn’t be like a snake shedding its skin, which doesn’t make it less lethal.
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