Law-Abiding Deviant 2

Doing things to please other people is the last thing on my Check List. The first is to God and then country then the rest follow

Oh yeah..,and maybe I should just let you know, the list is about 3 pages long so by you might know why I never do what you want me to do and behave the way you ant me to, cos I’m different and I LOVE IT.

Call me whatever you want; silly, stubborn, deviant & unserious and I’ll still care less, cos I’m still not doing anything to please you.

My focus is simple, to please God, so better pray what you want me to do is what God wants me to do else you can as well jump from the highest mountain into the deepest valley and I’ll still be doing what I want to do not what you expect me to.

Like I say and will continue to say: “the only thing that governs my life is The Word of God and the National Constitution. If what you want me to do doesn’t fit in any, them I’m sorry in advance that  I might just disappoint you.

God First; the rest follow… #PeaceOut

By: Julius Ofori Boadu (JOB)
(juliusboadu@gmail.com)
Twitter: @CwesiOfori

We are wrong by OURSELVES

Point the fingers at your attitude.

A friend of mine requested of me to take still shots at his engagement. So I went. Well, the ceremony started 3 hours late, but I’ll leave that discussion for another day.

One beautiful usher was serving water to the guests and the sight of it reminded me of my own thirst. When this usher was done serving, there were 3 bottles of water left on the tray which she was sending back. I approached her and said, ‘Please, can I get some water?’

She responded with a beautiful smile, ‘ok, wait here. I am coming’. So I waited. After about two minutes, she returned and in her hand was a dangling Voltic sachet water. ‘Here’, she said. I took it, drank it and continued my job.

I worked for some more hours and decided to leave as I had other appointments. On my way out, I heard someone shouting, ‘madam, madam, madam, please wait!’. I stopped. This beautiful usher with a gift bag in her hand approached me and said, ‘oh madam, I am so so so sorry. I THOUGHT YOU WERE A PHOTOGRAPHER. Please, I have 2 BOTTLES of water and some goodies in here for you………..’

It is totally ridiculous for me to hear any black person in this 21st century blame OUR woes on whatever ‘colonial masters’. We are wrong by ourselves.

Credit: Edem Asamany

9th July 2013