WISE COUNSELS
Hello, great people! It gives me great joy to know that I have wonderful people like you reading my write-ups and finding them worthwhile, though I’m only a little girl. I’m glad to write again because I know you’ll read again and get value. So, welcome on board.
There is a trend I have noticed that flowed from my great-grandmother to my grandmother and then to my mother: the rich usage of Yoruba adages, proverbs, and wise sayings. They say things like, Ilé latí ń kẹ́ṣọ̀ọ́ ròde (Charity begins at home), Rántí ọmọ ẹni tí ìwọ ń ṣe (Remember the son of whom you are).
So, I would pick those adages one after the other to drive some points home today.
Ilé latí ń kẹ́ṣọ̀ọ́ ròde (Charity begins at home): Every family must have their own values. Even couples that have not yet given birth must have what they thrive on as their values, so when children begin to come, they plant those values into them. In my family, for instance, we have values that our parents have planted in us from a very tender age, and this has been part of what has been helping me grow well in many aspects. I would like all parents out there to hold on to good values that will be planted in their children so that as they grow, the value grows within them and helps their character to glow.
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It is now left to the child to remember the son of whom he is (Rántí ọmọ ẹni tí ó ń ṣe). Every child must always be careful so that the pressure out there will not destroy the values that took years to build because these values can be very tender. It would take you years to build them but six months may even be too much to destroy them when we forget the child of
whom we are. The people who are led by peer pressure already have their lives messed up. They become the people who are trained but have refused to heed. Yoruba people call them “Akọ́ọ̀gbà” meaning “the one who rejects training,” while the ones who were never trained are called “Abíìkọ́” meaning “born but never trained.”. Hmmnn… I really feel like making this a topic for another day.
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Permit me to end with this sincere plea. I plead with everybody who is independent, either old or young, boy or girl, married or single, black or white, literate or illiterate, tall or short, to please listen to wise advice from their parents or elderly ones because those wise counsels beautify lives.
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