PEACOCK PRIDE VS TURKEY PRIDE.

I  have a friend who always gives me this reply "it's not pride that goes before a fall but arrogance" each time I tell him pride goes before a fall (smiles). He will go further to explain that it's a misinterpretation of the Bible from the Greek language to English language(lol). I agree with him since I know that too much of pride is arrogance and I also know that to live life, we need a certain amount of pride.

Recently, I saw a turkey walking on the street and when it saw other chickens, it started to show off all its glorious feathers and walking like her royal highness. I watched and didn't know when I smiled really hard. It was interesting watching the show of power between two creatures of the same famil(birds). Unfortunately for the turkey other than me and other passersby who watched briefly, the chickens cared less for all the glorious walk the turkey was showing off (lol).

There is a common saying in the Yoruba language (ígàrá turkey). This means turkey's pride and it is used majorly on people who have a show of too much pride (arrogance). So what do I conclude a Turkey's pride to be : act of arrogating, making undue claim in an overbearing manner, exorbitant claim of rank, contempt of others, lordliness,exalting your importance to an undue degree, haughtiness, self assumption, presumption and feeling indispensable.

I remembered seeing a peacock a long time ago. A little before the age of ten or a little above the age of ten in all of its glory. I still remember it's bright colours and large feathers. Comparing a peacock to a turkey now, I know the peacock has much bigger and brighter feathers than that of a turkey. I remember watching and smiling too. Unfortunately for the peacock there was no peahen around (lol). But I enjoyed watching the display.

Peacocks are believed to show off their feathers as an act of vanity but it's not. Peacocks fan out their feathers for a completely different reason than people think (it's a form of courtship ritual to attract a mate) . So what do I conclude a peacocks pride to be: self respect, unwilling to accept humiliation, being a unique individual, not accepting less, not succuming to pressures, not feeling inadequate, courageous, self worth,  self esteem, confidence, bravery and bold.

Sometimes when people choose to not be disrespected, they say it's pride. No!!!  I disagree. Self pride is different from arrogance just the way the peacock and turkey fan out their feathers for different reasons. Unlike the turkey that shows off it's feather to either pick a fight or to protect it's food, you can use your peacock pride to attract the right kind of people (lol). You can influence a person's attitude towards you. A person who has no self respect will not know how to give respect to others. So use your peacock pride well (lol).

Did I mention that I like to eat turkey and I have never eaten a peacock before (lol). Now that I said that is peacock edible (thinking.....smiles).

Agree or disagree comments are welcomed (kisses and hugs).

CIVILIZATION OR DEEP TRADITION

For the compulsory one year enslavement Nigerian youths are forced into, I serve in ondo state(lolz).

I discovered while staying here that ondo people still live in the past (Oops let me use a more friendly term like fetish). They still carry out archaic festival rites where it is believed women shouldn’t come out to see certain masquerades.

I got bored and was chatting with a friend and he told me that civilization is tradition. He said he wasn’t willing to sell the fact to me but i bought it anyways without him knowing( smiles).

What is believed to be civilization today is the western tradition or rather culture. As an African or rather a Nigerian do i prefer deep tradition or civilization?.

Deep tradition would mean no phones ( can i give my phone up……….thinking) knowing i will not be blogging now if there was no phones is making me have second thoughts lol. I probably would have been in one forest half dressed in leaves, probably will not have beds to sleep on, probably will have different marks drawn on my face or probably would have been born among the Zulu people and be greeting like them(i.say this not because i have anything against their way of greeting but because i harbor a secret desire to learn the greeting. Did i just spill that lol). All these sounds funny and interesting.

Though i like civilization because it has helped to make life easy but thinking about deep tradition still makes me remember the taste “bitter sweet”. Anyways I am indifferent to the two because i was born when civilization has taken place may be if i was born when we still had our traditions very much alive i would have appreciated it more but none the less i still appreciate our tradition.

I will like to say that civilization has brought in a lot of changes in all but truth is some traditions will always be kept no matter how much of civilization we borrow.  Though civilization is embraced we still and will always have our traditions.