Monday, December 30, 2013

CIRCUMSTANTIAL PREFERENCE



CIRCUMSTANTIAL PREFERENCE
The real age of a baby is not the age we claim, it should be + 9months…Oladele Femi
It is instructive to state however that not all babies spend the average nine (9) months
I had a visitor (a couple) and they came with their daughter. She was full of life and I asked her mum how old the baby is and her response raised a major concern in my mind which is the purpose of today’s discuss.
Her mum said she was eight (8) months old. I looked intently at the baby and said to myself “this baby is seventeen months old”
I started to try to justify the facts of the matter. When did my birth occur; at conception or at delivery? I am not sure if medical practitioners have had to justify the facts of the matter, but I will like to suggest that a baby is born on the day of conception rather than delivery. How about still birth? I would suggest that the baby was alive for the number of months he/she spent in the mother’s womb.
All those are stories anyway, the main point of discuss is the reasoning or concept of circumstantial preference.
Circumstances most times initiate a consciousness in our minds that drives our major preferences. Just as we decide to accrue birth dates to the day of delivery just because we assume that’s the day of life, so also most times we attribute preferences to circumstances in our lives based on what we assume are realities.
I think we need a major reassessment or readjustment to enable our circumstantial preferences to align with realities rather than assumed realities.
Best wishes people…DESIRE

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