HYPOCRISY: IS IT LOVE OR INFATUATION? BY HRH DR. SABO AJIDOKU EMMANUEL

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 HYPOCRISY: IS IT LOVE OR INFATUATION?

BY

HRH DR. SABO AJIDOKU EMMANUEL 

The legendry Bob Marley and the Wailers in one of their musical albums, gave a graphic metallic exposure of hypocrites. Hypocrites are a bunch of pretenders in terms of morality. We are all involved. It is not a question of professional politicians. As human beings by our nature, we are all political animals. As such we dabble in one form of politics or the other.


Poverty, illiteracy, mischief, ignorance, have aggravated hypocrisy as a stamped indelible psychological malady in humans and the society in which we live. In a chameleonic structured and powered metamorphosis and invisibility, the moral behaviour of a Being referred to as human, becomes a very debatable hoodoo.


Since the fall of man in the garden of Eden, man has parted ways with fidelity and is completely stucked in this mud of hypocrisy. This one time refined and adorable creature, has become a shadow of itself. The much talked about man’s inhumanity to man is not an exaggeration or giving a dog a bad name, in order to hang it. That is just a perfect description of humanity that cannot be defended any day.


The human society is flooded with people whose identity cannot be proven. Human beings masquerade about with falsehood just to make ends meet, to make a living. In this world of the survival of the fittest, a lot of injustices are solemnly permissible, committed, glaringly with acute or blatant ignominy.


Imagine, a chugger, who claims to render charity or humanitarian services in the street. That is just an aspect of hypocrisy. What one finds in the game of politics and politicking is an assembly of masquerades, marauding the consciousness and the psychology of the victims who easily fall prey to their inordinate ambitions. Mark you, it is not all that glitter is gold. When electioneering and elections are over, they retire to their cocoons till another season of campaigns and elections. Is that patriotism, love or infatuations? Right? And when the chips are down with a politician, the electorates or the (hungry) masses who always go aborrowing must also go asorrowing.


In a relationship, (man, woman), there can be so many instances of hypocrisy. Right from day one of courtship, till ‘I do, I do’ and beyond. The institutional foundation of marriage may very likely be submerged by an astound tidal waves. True love, for sure, endures, lasts, accommodates, tolerates forever. It should be a cycle of live and let live phenomenon. It calls for maximum understanding of the parties involved. It is love that is at the centre and not infatuation which has a fading vanishing characteristics.


My co-sharer, take these juicy questions. Have you ever been a nouveau riche? And what were the demonstrative attitudes or behaviours towards you when you were the village champion or (to garnish it better by being polite) a one in town in your hay days? When your scintillating jacaranda perfumes submerged any offensive pollutant in the neighbourhood.  


Do you still remember William Onyebo, the artist who says in his song, when the going is good, they will all be around you, they will call you charming and wonderful names that befit your status, but when the going is bad, they will all disappear, they will all run away and never come back. That is hypocrisy, that is human being for you. It is not love, it is infatuation. They are just after what they can get from you. When you are riding high, you are the man of the moment. This message is both psychological and philosophical. So, visit or check your graph and find the equilibrium. It may sound plausible and perspicacious. If you are on today, be sincere to yourself. Let me ask you, how many phone calls have hit your handset today? There are some calls you do not pick or call back at all. Your own story may be different perhaps. Times and circumstances may unveil and only then you will remember William Onyebo. You will never see these hypocrites again. It will sound to you as if it is a dream, yes, bubbles on water, deflated, deflected and disappeared.


Therefore, as you relate with human beings, pedal low, be careful with the way and manner you go about doing things. Consider yourself to be the only ‘saint’ and any other person is a hypocrite. Any person can fail you anytime. Hypocrites are only after the goody-goodies in your custody. Whether you are open-minded or not, whether you give freely and generously like Father Christmas or not, your facial appearance does not count, does not mean anything, whether you are handsome, beautiful or ugly. Your character or mannerism, all out of question. Time and tide shall dictate to you what love is, what infatuation is and only then shall you identify what hypocrisy is and also know who are the hypocrites. 

Be on guard.

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