Life in its very self is absurd. So nothing is absurd in believing that absurdity can sometime be sensible – because life claims to be wise, hence, it is the greatest teacher. Even the Englishman says that disappointments house appointments. So, they say the wisest thing is to always unravel the sagacity in absurdity. Weird.

I am not even interested in changing, or affecting, the status quo. I am not ready to dispute against what has been extant since the days of Adam’s grandfather. But it is yet so absurd, still, that I dare not change the status quo or be influential on its status.

Cleared, it’s herculean. It’s near impossible. But it might be even more absurd to think it impossible. Last time I said nature isn’t as guiltless. I asked myself if it wasn’t absurd to believe in it. God is the creator of nature (or is God nature like my friend said? That doesn’t matter). So, by indicting nature, it might just mean that I am indicting God. Isn’t that even more absurd than absurdity? Truly, this world is absurd. But, truly, anytime any great change is going to happen, it must seem absurd. Absurd.

In my very humble hood, when I decided to choose Unilag, with my impoverishment in Mathematics, someone walked up to me and told (or asked) me: don’t you think this is weird…? Invariably, he was asking if I considered the absurdity. But it happened, I took my bench behind close to a hundred people, but I pitched my tent on the merit list. That is what matters! But it was absurd. Why must it be? Check a lot of great inventors.

When Pat Robertson was to open his account with $3, it was the most absurd of all things. But it happened. When Abraham Lincoln kept contesting without winning, I wonder if they didn’t run psycho test on him – it was even more absurd. But he became president – that is the ultimate.

Now, does it mean that absurdity must be extant, even if unobtrusive, in our deeds before they must be great? I mean great! Those that influenced the world most, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Jacques Brandenberger, Charles Goodyear, etc. all unraveled the sagacity behind absurdity. Come to our level, if your classmate just came to class and he turns excrement into a nice fragrance you can’t resist, how would you feel? Awed? Or let’s imagine a man makes a beautiful strong car that uses water. How would you view him? Out-of-this-world? Good. That’s just what we are talking about.
Now, if I just went the normal way, and made a car that runs on fuel, how would you see me? Just another normal thing? Great. Then that means that to be viewed as exceptional, I must crave to be abnormal, or my thoughts must be trained to be absurd. Absurdity! Little wonder Kobena agreed to be made “more mad” should his beliefs be called absurd.

I know I will never get an answer but sometimes I just wish I could know why they tell us greatest lessons are learnt from our mistakes (those things we did that are absurd). I know I may never. Plato didn’t, Aristotle didn’t. I am greater than them though, but the world has grown worse, I may not have the time to think about them – not when Eniola has clouded my thought. That’s how it really is. Take it or leave it: Negativity is perhaps the most influential thing (both on good and bad results) that ever lived. Check the rate of pre-marital sex. Check the biography or autobiography of great men. Check your life from time-past. Check its presence in your history. Check the times you have learnt from your mistakes. Check the mistakes that have left you degenerated up till the moment. Agreed or not. Absurdity is the foundation of all incredibility.

Bigdee