TRIVIALIZING ISSUES

TRIVIALIZING ISSUES

Some days ago after the gross situation that took place in #BUI, the Vice-Chancellor addressed the University community charging us not to trivialize the circumstances, the rumors, and the outcome.

Some weeks later I was in Ibadan for the Easter break for some rest and I was home alone. One evening I heard knocks at the door and I was dumbfounded, as I didn’t know how to respond to the person at the door.

For some time I have been living alone having no visitors, not having need to respond to calls or knocks at my door. So as the knocks intensified, I just rushed to answer the door by opening without considering the security challenge or anything.

The main point in this post is to emphasize how I trivialized methods of answering the door.

So, my suggestion, we should not trivialize issues that make us who we are…