Notes for the future

Hi, it's being a while; please find below the award winning article that was published in the graduation year book of Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. It brings tears into my eyes anytime I read through it.


We gathered as University freshmen five years ago all brimming with superfluous excitement, yet oblivious of what the future held. There were times that we wish we could cherish and hold forever, there were days we wish wouldn’t end praying that we could stay together, mistakes were made and lessons were learnt.... we started on the journey, thought it will never end.... but we meet to part and we part to meet, it’s time to say goodbye...”

Life is full of pulses of nothingness, quanta of vain pursuits and satellites of dummy
peregrinations, yet her endless energy packets of ritualistic phases we all must
observe. Ours was an assemblage never calculated, perhaps coincidental, definitely not transformable by Fourier or Laplace methods but certainly ordained by God. Elect/Elect class of 2011 (positive geniuses) initiated many discharges, some safe and some transient, yet that which our stay has started directly on line or by virtue of resistances is infinitesimal to the limitless great events which I am sure we are capable of doing albeit still housed in the cocoon of the future.

I certainly wish us all the steady state plots of life free from disturbances, ripple effects and undershoots. Life may bring problems synonymous to overvoltages but as a sage once said Life indeed is a bed of roses but remember the thorns. Thus, Sasaeniapaul beseeches thee with the signals of God that we pray for our future ‘cause we need immortal precedence. Our class is undoubtedly saturated with the best minds around and I know that the world is waiting for the unbridled treasure secured in our various destinies.

To all positive geniuses if you won’t be a great daddy don’t impregnate her; if you won’t love her till your heart reaches its elastic limit, please don’t let her loose those who would. If you won’t love him when the current and voltage of love is overcome by the capacitance effect of time then don’t fall for him or his wealth. If you will deceive those at work and manipulate standards to get results then don’t accept that appointment Pursue wealth not at the expense of a good name for the latter outlives the former.

Finally, because my hands are weary from typing.... I would say don’t be a hub, be a router, don’t be a nail, be a hammer, don’t believe in Murphy’s Law (‘If anything has the slightest opportunity of going wrong it will’). When money comes (I know it surely will), remember those humble days when you were taking lectures in Physics oven and annex; when you were carrying drawing boards for a course most of us didn’t like; remember the times when you dubbed assignments to meet deadlines and when you saw grades that were a poor reflection of your abilities; remember those gruelling hours of lectures, remember those friendly and not too friendly lecturers; remember that young boy who initiated this article. When all this comes to your mind, please be meek. My warmest regards to your kids when you start having them. God bless the class of positive genius.

©Oluwabunmi sasaeniapaul....eeg/2006/093