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
