Champions League Final Pitch Invasion, Wendy's Departure: LESSONS WE MUST ALL LEARN.
Adejumo David
"Life is for living, do crazy things you will remember forever," she wrote, accompanied with a video of her pitch invasion, filmed from the stands; and a footage of her being dragged by the stewards behind the scene.
Kinsey Wolanski saw her Instagram followers skyrocket from a few hundreds of thousands to more than a million within few hours.
It isn't a coincidence then that Wolanski's boyfriend - or Fiancee to be more specific. He had vowed to marry her in the aftermath of the display - Vitaly Zdorovetski is a YouTube prankster. Vitaly is famous for disrupting the 2014 World Cup Final in Brazil, similar to what Kinsey did at the Wanda Metropolitano.
In another news, we had Wendy, the final year Management and Accounting student of OAU, who died tragically in a ghastly motorcycle accident along Mayfair axis. You might want to argue that it was untimely, too. Without mincing words, I'll submit that Wendy had no inkling as to what was in stock for her that day.
She must have woken up the normal way and do the ordinary things she would have done on an ordinary day. It was reported, reliably, that she just stepped out to get a wrap of Shawarma. Too bad she was fighting for her life minutes after that, echoing with painful roars of "My Mummy," "Mummy," following her every gasp for breath.
Overwhelming love for her mother.
For the effect her demise will have on her mother was more precious to her; even than her own life. She was a fighter. She struggled. She never gave up until she had to: Until it wasn't in her power anymore. Every minute down the line.
I feel, strongly, that the fact that we have only one life to live is highly underrated; especially in this overly digitalized, fast paced world we find ourselves in today. I am a Medical student, and I have seen and worked on dead bodies; Cadavers. They don't feel a thing while we open them up to study their inner structures. They are still. Still as the cold morning silence. No life! No thoughts. No dreams. Nothing. Their physical bodies are plunged into everlasting quietness.
But a lot of people fail to realize this these days. We're all so worked up. So busy. Caught up in the rat race. This vicious circle called life, where we live our lives based on what others have defined as success.
Some people might label what Kinsey did during the Champions League Final as outright insanity or stupidity and they won't be wrong because that would be their opinion. But you see, Kinsey and her boyfriend are the masters of their own thoughts.
They a fraction of the few who haven't allowed people's opinion or definition of life be their own reality. They aren't running other people's races. They run and dictate the pace of theirs.
Their own definition of success might not be acquiring the best cars and cruising in five Star hotels around the globe, but that is how they choose to be happy. And that is all that matters, really.
So, let me say to you, dear reader that: You, like everybody else, have just one life to live. In your quest to achieve your dreams and your goals and your life purposes, make it an habit to be happy! Yes. Happiness is an habit. Enjoy every bit of the struggle to achievement. Don't limit the possibility of you being happy to the things and the situations around you.
Do the little things that make you happy. Sing loudly even if your voice is croaky. Smile. Smile again. Love. Ask that guy out if you really do like him. Learn to play an instrument. Get into business. Fall. Rise Again. Lean on your God. Live life with energy and passion. Don't put things off for later for all you have is now. Stay happy, because that's all that really matters in the end.
Akin-David is a student Journalist with OAU KILONSHELE NEWS AGENCY. A lover of life, good music and poetry. His Poem, "Getting Real With Laughter" made the finals of the 2018 Edition of the Association Of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Osun State Chapter's National Poetry Competition held in Ife.
For comments, enquiries and contributions about the post, He's opened to discussions and can be reached via:
08168109443 (WhatsApp)
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| Kinsey Wolanski being dragged by a steward |
"Life is for living, do crazy things you will remember forever," she wrote, accompanied with a video of her pitch invasion, filmed from the stands; and a footage of her being dragged by the stewards behind the scene.
Kinsey Wolanski saw her Instagram followers skyrocket from a few hundreds of thousands to more than a million within few hours.
It isn't a coincidence then that Wolanski's boyfriend - or Fiancee to be more specific. He had vowed to marry her in the aftermath of the display - Vitaly Zdorovetski is a YouTube prankster. Vitaly is famous for disrupting the 2014 World Cup Final in Brazil, similar to what Kinsey did at the Wanda Metropolitano.
In another news, we had Wendy, the final year Management and Accounting student of OAU, who died tragically in a ghastly motorcycle accident along Mayfair axis. You might want to argue that it was untimely, too. Without mincing words, I'll submit that Wendy had no inkling as to what was in stock for her that day.
She must have woken up the normal way and do the ordinary things she would have done on an ordinary day. It was reported, reliably, that she just stepped out to get a wrap of Shawarma. Too bad she was fighting for her life minutes after that, echoing with painful roars of "My Mummy," "Mummy," following her every gasp for breath.
Overwhelming love for her mother.
For the effect her demise will have on her mother was more precious to her; even than her own life. She was a fighter. She struggled. She never gave up until she had to: Until it wasn't in her power anymore. Every minute down the line.
I feel, strongly, that the fact that we have only one life to live is highly underrated; especially in this overly digitalized, fast paced world we find ourselves in today. I am a Medical student, and I have seen and worked on dead bodies; Cadavers. They don't feel a thing while we open them up to study their inner structures. They are still. Still as the cold morning silence. No life! No thoughts. No dreams. Nothing. Their physical bodies are plunged into everlasting quietness.
But a lot of people fail to realize this these days. We're all so worked up. So busy. Caught up in the rat race. This vicious circle called life, where we live our lives based on what others have defined as success.
Some people might label what Kinsey did during the Champions League Final as outright insanity or stupidity and they won't be wrong because that would be their opinion. But you see, Kinsey and her boyfriend are the masters of their own thoughts.
They a fraction of the few who haven't allowed people's opinion or definition of life be their own reality. They aren't running other people's races. They run and dictate the pace of theirs.
Their own definition of success might not be acquiring the best cars and cruising in five Star hotels around the globe, but that is how they choose to be happy. And that is all that matters, really.
So, let me say to you, dear reader that: You, like everybody else, have just one life to live. In your quest to achieve your dreams and your goals and your life purposes, make it an habit to be happy! Yes. Happiness is an habit. Enjoy every bit of the struggle to achievement. Don't limit the possibility of you being happy to the things and the situations around you.
Do the little things that make you happy. Sing loudly even if your voice is croaky. Smile. Smile again. Love. Ask that guy out if you really do like him. Learn to play an instrument. Get into business. Fall. Rise Again. Lean on your God. Live life with energy and passion. Don't put things off for later for all you have is now. Stay happy, because that's all that really matters in the end.
Akin-David is a student Journalist with OAU KILONSHELE NEWS AGENCY. A lover of life, good music and poetry. His Poem, "Getting Real With Laughter" made the finals of the 2018 Edition of the Association Of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Osun State Chapter's National Poetry Competition held in Ife.
For comments, enquiries and contributions about the post, He's opened to discussions and can be reached via:
08168109443 (WhatsApp)
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