Elvis C. Umez

I am living my life to actually discover the reality of some truth why we do the things we do, and the way we do them: 1. Why man must die without potentials. 2. Why man must succeed. 3. Why man falls in love with a woman. 4. Why man must have an enemy. 5. Why man struggles to get approval from other (approval addiction). 6. Why man chooses a career in life. 7. Why man strives for power. 8. Why man must listen to advice. 9. Why man must get rich to be prominent in life. These questions I wondered why I desire to have answers for, nevertheless, the quest is ongoing, seeking thoroughly to amass so much knowledge to demystify the ambiguity, perplexity, and the intricacy of these questions. In the little while I have lived so far, life makes much sense if you know and understand why you do what you do on the daily basis. For instance, why do you eat? I know the conventional way to answer this is “I am hungry”, but this does not really answer the question implied. Anything you do outside yo...

Those who are poor are not those who have the best of wings But the truth is You need wings to really fly What matters is not whether you can fly You start by crawling Then you will learn how to stand And thinking through the process You can walk your way through But just remember You can’t run If first you don’t walk When you walk through the break through Nothing can hold your speed anymore As you spread your wings Know what you intend to do With caution You can fly

When the world seems to be a closed door You could be the one closing it yourself The world does not revolve round no one But what you give in Usually is what you can take away Though things may seem to be falling apart Hang on there, change is gonna come No wonder is up there Watching … you can, if you can You can do anything without fail You can make those things happen Just look up to the one `Cos who’s above is above all Count your cost and know if you can

The simple act of God being so nice brought about the creation. Another is the rugged cross. But today in our society, I may be going too far if I say society. Today, in the body of Christ, being nice, we think, is so expensive a venture to get ourselves into. The concept of being nice has left our systems so strongly that those who seem to nice go in for it, hence; they are being taken advantage upon. I put this way, the synonym given to the great commission, to me, is to be nice to all men, nothing more, nothing less. Yet, this has more or less been under emphasized and of course, we assume to be Christians-what a misnomer. The scripture declares as said Luke to Theophilus how Jesus of Nazareth went about doing good--- I’d rather say it this way. How he went about being nice. I write to represent a concept that God himself implored, Sages also have this as a record, even kings and kingdoms, politicians, the so acclaimed public liability companies- just being nice. Being nice is a sim...

We could only observe and apply our knowledge with a certain level of understanding and wisdom. From the looks of things, we have always considered the one side of the coin and forgetting that it has only but two sides. Though these faces are quite exclusive, we will always expect to see the face that has a way of favoring us, especially to those who gamble. To this end, we can as well apply this to our daily lives, that is seeing life as having two functional faces, which also appear exclusively knowing full well that one can either fail or succeed. No one is better than the other. Success can be a blessing as well as a curse, depending on what we call success anyway. Therefore, I present a concept which is outside the box- Benefits of Failure. I write to put it this way that every failure is a proper blessing because the best part of our life is that which allows us to have a sober reflection, not that part that makes us say such thing as “I have arrived”, “I have made it”, and lots ...

We can always believe an it comes to...I mean if we say we can, we can.