Today, April 4, 2017 marks the 45th
birthday celebration of Olukayode Salako, celebrated husband of popular
Nollywood actress, Foluke Daramola, who is equally the National coordinator Change
Agents of Nigeria (CANN).
The scholar, activist, socialite,
father, friend and husband of the beautiful actress who was the former Chief
Executive Officer at Bosworth International College looked back at the journey
of his life since 45 years ago and itemizes very thoughtful lessons life has
thought him in a very emotional way;
1. The best a man can be in this
clime, is to be a man of money, wit and power, not even a man of integrity and
dignity any more.
2. Whether you are responsible or
not, you can still be a man of the people - You just have the money.
3. You can necessarily come
through a family, but your family might not pass through you.
4. Whether you are alive or not,
your children can survive without you and live their lives.
5. It is very bad for a man not
to have parents, especially the mother.
6. You can always survive on your
own, just rely on your destiny, character, conscience, mission, hardwork and
God.
7. Life is too short and
unreliable than to be living it as if you have control of it.
8. Your siblings can be your best
enemies and contenders.
9. That you love a woman and she
has kids for you does not mean she cannot dump you.
10. It is better to have the
mother than to have just the father alone.
11. You will certainly have more
friends, admirers and hailers, only when you have plenty money to waist around
them.
12. It is better we avoid owing
so that an idiot will not call you an idiot.
13. What will be, will be, if it
had been written to be by providence.
14. It is better to have a
physical liabity as a wife than a spiritual liability. That is the most
dangerous one.
15. You can be toiling, helping
people, including your own siblings and they still hate you.
16. The best way not to make suicide
the last option in any circumstance is realistically to be an expressionist or
the talking type.
18. The covenant of a man's first
marriage in life has a lot to do with his total wellbeing in life. Once he got
it wrong with the first woman, like Adam, it might not be easy to come out of
it.
19. Journalists and the police
could be the nicest people one can have as friends on earth and they could also
be the worst.
20. The same people you spend
your resources on so that they could be okay, are still the same people who
would go behind you to call you a foolish man.
21. Your religion or your faith
in God does not guarantee that the worst calamities will not happen to you.
23. The best that should put you
in bondage should never be your religion, culture, believes, education or your
social status. Your conscience should.
24. The day something dangerous
will really happen to you, nobody would see it or be able to avert it, except
it won't happen.
25. Highly principled and
realistic people don't often have free friends, because they are always
misconstrued as being proud.
26. Human beings may not
appreciate that good man while alive, until the day of his Christian wake.
29. To be a lucky man; a man of
destiny or grace, is far, far better than to be a man of 7 university degrees.
30. The best woman in the world
can be your wife, if she is convinced enough that your future, not your
material endowments, is good enough to make her the type of a woman she had
ever wished for.
31. Conviction, far stronger than
love or anything, is the best that can always sustain two peculiar people in
marriage.
32. Debt is the worst cancer to
every good relationship.
33. Education is the only
phenomenon which could make people to be easily governed, but difficult to
rule; easy to lead, but difficult to enslave.
34. Many of life failures are
those who did not know how to close to they were to success, when they gave up.
33. Love is the greatest of all
earthly phenomenon.
34. It is not how many friends
you have that matters, but who they are and what they have to exchange for the
friendship.
35. To be a man of power or a man
of so much influence and money in Nigeria, just be a crook or that man of
questionable character.
36. It is only one life. I might
not have the opportunity of coming this way again. So, living it right and with
the best of quality fulfillment is my watchword.
37. Who you will be; you will be.
Where you will get to, you will get to, except it is not destined to be so.
38. A man's greatest assets
should be his brain, character and conscience, and not his skills.
39. It is better to start
something and be consistent in it, than to keep building consistency especially
in what others are doing.
40. That to be happy in life, you
need to be the distributor of good will.
41. To live long in life, you
need to be free like a child; eat like a child; sleep like a child; recreate
like a child and live and see life like a child.
42. If God has decided to be for
you, no one else can be against you and succeed it.
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