Adamu Muhammad Dodo
* Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard. It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come – William Shakespeare
His activities he’ll henceforth keep secret, his movements are to remain not just unnoticed but unknown, if he must succeed, the sage would advice that it would be a hard decision, a tough step to take; a rather temporary boycott.
Some among his parents are worried, would call, words-swordsman to sheath his pensword pointing out that the challenges are enormous, the threats unbearably scary even if scam he would try hard rather unconvincing to explain to the scared concerned and cared. The courageous of the parents would however urge the wordsswordsman to move till the ocean of his ink gets dry or till victory is achieved.
There’s a price for everything, there’s sacrifice in everything; ‘cowards die many times before their deaths’, William Shakespeare would articulate, as much as ‘the man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny’; oppression and exploitation, explained Wole Soyinka.
There’s the struggle long started, to remain rather unrepentantly unrelenting. The degree of its impact so disastrous to the authority joined in seeming conspiracy based on assumed uncontrolled unconscious bias would however have to be neutralised by sending disturbing signals to the parents of the pensswordsman who would not keep silent in the face of injustice; deploying deceptive mediator with a rather defective message; defeatist, deafening, ought to be dead on arrival; that there’s the meeting between the Maker and the made for which as mediator he’s challenged to arrange the meeting, should the made continue intimidating the impostor messenger’s master.
The man with the pen as sword would however not be moved by threat he considered trash.
“The valiant never taste of death but once,” Shakespeare would say; considering also that death is inevitable. He who’s after one’s life is himself a living dead; a dying man in waiting for his time as everybody; so why should he be a thing to be afraid of?
He who’s afraid of losing someone would himself be lost but only when it’s the time. So, why the fear? The struggle must continue.
However, to be able to allay parents’ fears, any movement or idea, however infinitesimal must remain unknown a secret.
The Covid scare makes another wisdom in keeping away from loved ones, especially when vulnerable in the struggle for emancipation, for liberation against oppression and tyranny.
Parents are enjoined in prayers remain alive with understanding, with a view to enjoy in prayers the satisfaction associated with the success of the struggle. Peace!