One day an old man went into a new neighborhood, to a new place far from his environment, into a well happening environment to cut his hair. As he was in the saloon, waiting to takes his turn of having to shave his hair, he discover many young men gathered in the saloon. As he was sited busy discussing with this young men in the saloon, he saw a young man passing by with some group of friends walking behind him. Then the old man looked closely, he discovered the young man hair cut halfway like the look of a peacock. Then the old man asked.
‘”who is this rough young man with his hair cut halfway ?” the boys at the saloon quickly answer the old man.
” aha sir don’t you know him? His name is Phyno the young and greatest hip pop local rap musical artist who usually rap in local language. ” the the old man became surprised
” ehen is that so? this one I am looking at like this can do all this great things you all have just said? ” the boys answered “yes sir….. You really need to listen to one of his song.. It’s really great.” the man became inquisitive to listen to his song to also get to know who the young man is.
” i will surely have to get one of his son and listen to him.” said the old man. “I never knew we have such a good son of our land doing our own music this much…… He is such a good hard working boy. ” said the old man .
Not long after Phyno had just passed, another young man was passing by and the old man quickly spot him again. The old man noticed his hair so high and spray with the colour white, that the young man hair look like that of an old man full of wisdom. Quickly the old man asked.
“who is this one again? How can his hair be looking all grey at his young age.” The boys also quickly answer the man again.
” ah sir don’t you know this one?…… This is the great soyika the great novelist who has won the first Nobel price with his first novel. ” they told the man. ” is that so? Asked the old man with a gradual change in heart towards the young man. “This one acting like an old man? That is even looking more older than I am and more wiser than myself?” the old man ask.
” yes sir, And it will interest you to know that he is even an authoritative in an English language. To a white man’s language.” said one of the boys in the saloon
” are you serious” the old man ask as he becomes interested in the young man again. And also desire to buy up his book one day and read to also to get to know the young man as well.
Just before the conversation was over again, another young man was coming by with his hair so rough and high and unkept with stain of different colours of paint on his hair and a pencil clipped to one side of his ear. The old man quickly spoted him again and asked.
“who is this one again with his hair so un-kept full of different colour of stain and a pencil in his ear. Is he OK at all?” the boys in the saloon quickly hail the young man and told the old man that.
“sir he is the greatest painter you can ever get in our time. his name is Lami the great painter…….. And you really will need to visit his painting studio for painting works full of stories of different kinds, fill with true stories of the nature.” the old man became surprised again To know such a rough identity could be such a creative thinker. As such the old man as well desire to also one day visit this young man in his painting studio to know why the saloon boys are really speaking great things about him.
Not long after then, another two young men were passing by with their hair rough and unkept halfway cut like that of Phyno the great musician and soyika the great writer. And the old man quickly spotted them both and was hoping to also hear great word of their personality. So he quickly out of high expectation from the great personality of the past three young men ask to know who they were also. And the boys told him this time.
“sir, they are nobody….. But just an area boys of this neighborhood.” And the old man became disappointed. He began to call them name of different kinds. so the old man said “they are thief oho, even rapist. And killers…… “And so on and so forth. he even told the saloon boys not to associate themselves with them, So as not get corrupt by them.
This young men though have the same identity with the previous three but without a personality. As such the society decided to force give them a negative personality;( no body, area boys, kidnappers, rapist) Even though they might not be what they are being called.
this is to tell us that for every identity created their is a craving for the true personality. And when that personality is not given, their is that force given of personality by the public.
What those two young men with a copied identity without a personality do not know was that, to every Identity created, bring the platform for popularity for the personality to be marketed. For that is why the old man will always desire in a time to either visit the various artist or buy up their products to get to know them the more.
so Before you will ever create any identity , we must try and make sure we have build up a personality of our true person to be marketed to the public through the identity we created. else the public will give us a bad name for the identity created without a personality to be market.
To every personality created, it takes an identity to sell the personality. But to every identity created without a personality, a wrong image of a bad personality is given.
So as a boy, as a young girl, as a young man, as a lady and as an adult, as an old man, I will say in all we will do; in our dressing, our hair style, our walking style, our talking style and etc, we should remember to develop a true personality first before the identity. We should remember to fulfill our purpose to which we came this world by personality to also be marketed through our identity.
ehigamen kingsley
Reforming the mind through the word.
