Random Things Really

Hey y'all,

       i had no idea that content creation could be such a tedious thing... Like there's all these amazing things in my mind and in my head but how to bring it out , which of them i should bring out, etc, its tricky, especially because i literally jump from one topic to another like i'm freestyling or somethin' .

          Sometimes my attention span is just so low, that's why i like to keep my posts short for you and if you keep your posts short for me too, that would be epic. lol. About the lack of pictures on my site for now, i want Gathering of Indigo to be all about the content for now. Let's just like talk about stuff, not people saying "hey, i like the image you used. where did you get it, bla bla bla". Like let's talk real stuff. Anyone who finds this boring isn't my tribe anyway so i don't mind. You love it, you stay. You don't love it, you go else where and check for something you love better.

     Over the weekend, i'll work on some content.... You don't mind that i'm learning on the job , right? lol.... i catch up very fast. Smart like that. i'd suggest that you tell me what you would like to read but you aren't here yet sooo...... i'll take care of things here until you come along.

     Remain awesome, i'll be back with stuff deeper than this by next week, lol. Have an amazing time, share only the vibrations of love.

Namaste {I bow to the god within you},

Call me Indigo.

Can I Love More Than One Person At The Same Time?

          Absolutely!  Yes! This is one of the most confused concepts of our present time. Take the issue of soul-mates for example, in a world of over hundreds of billions of people, it’s only logical that each person has at least ten soul-mates in this earth realm. How i come to this conclusion is a write up for another day. If a person has up to ten soul-mates, it’s only natural to assume that they might meet about two in a lifetime although most people meet just one and some never meet any. At the same time, a person can have a surreal relationship, an ecstatic relationship with a person or people who are not ones soul-mate , that just widened the gap, didn't it?

         Ever thought of the capacity to love put in each human heart? Ever thought of the fact that the entire human race is called to love? Ever thought of the fact that those who have poured out love tend to be really successful even in things people would normally not patronize? Love abounds and in a bible scripture, it says, God is Love, turning that around would mean, Love is God.

        So many times, we have loved a person so hard that when we lost them, we thought we would never love again but we did eventually love again and this time even harder than we first loved. This is because our capacity to love is limitless, it’s beyond comprehension. A mother with six kids loves all of them so much that if the house is on fire and four of those kids are out, she is ready to risk her life for the other two kids still inside. Were you expecting me to use the five to one analogy there? I didn't because some smarty pant might say cause the one trapped in the house was her favourite.                 So, don’t stifle yourself, you can love as many people as life throws to you and at whatever time.

  

  Am always eager to read what you have to say.

Namaste {I bow to the god within you},

 Call me Indigo.

Activism / Activist

        Its often overwhelming the amount of injustices to be  fought against in the world, in my country (Nigeria) and yet how little people are willing to join this fight to the death if it comes to that. 

Even i who is willing to fight (not yet to the death though) gets confused about what to fight. What remains the absolute truth however is that we must each join in to fight for something, anything. You may fight to eradicate ugliness and you may also fight to bring in beauty. We must all leave this earth knowing we did something, however little to make the planet better for the future, for our conscience. Our efforts should also not be scattered because scattered effort means scattered results.

(“henceforth i will use ‘i ‘very often because i need you to make a personal decision. Think of you as a person with your unique traits and interests, what will you fight for / against?”)

         What then do i fight against or for (as the case may be)? Do i fight against domestic violence? Do i fight for the woman who lives in constant terror of her husband yet dares not leave out of fear of him but also for her children, for her two year old child, for fear of her community and the shaming that will ensue from her leaving her husband’s house?  For the woman who many a time is hospitalized from the brutalization of society on her husband which he so indelicately writes upon her body?

   

          Do i fight Against jungle justice? Against violence of all kinds perpetuated against women? Against rape and rapists? For the little five year old girl whose childhood is being taken forcefully away from her by a thirty year old man? For the daughter whose father, supposed to protect her, defiles her night after night? For the innocent teenager caught out late at night due to traffic or finding her way to the church for a night vigil or a 5am program? Will i fight Against sexual harassment? Against lecturers who insist on sex to give a student the marks they already deserve? Against employers of labour who peddle their employees like sex workers and in turn use their employees sexually?  Against unemployment especially for ladies? Against institutions that are gender biased either openly or hidden?  Against all injustices against women? 

         Do i fight to bring education, specialized education ( Computer skills, business know-how, etc) to women and men of all kinds? Against early marriage? Against marriage without the consent of the lady supposed to be getting married? Do i fight for homosexuals who are denied their right to love freely and openly? Against the politicians who use our young boys as thugs, who steal the nations funds and throw the rest of the nation and its populace into penury while enriching other countries? 

         Do i fight against our fallen institutions especially the educational sector that annually delivers half-baked graduates who can’t tell the difference between short-term rewards (e.g. N5000 to vote in a criminal) for long-term hardships (e.g. the criminal enters power and throws the entire nation into chaos) and short-term hardship (e.g. saving up your pennies and even skipping meals so you can pay for a certain training course ) for long-term reward(e.g. Going higher in your career hence ability to attract better opportuinities for your life ). Do i fight against religious bodies that swindle people of their hard earned money whilst at the same time refusing to teach the people how to make money? 

          Do i fight against a system that teaches the value of materialism above integrity and hardwork? A system that teaches girls that they are only worth what is between their legs, only worth the complexion of their skin, only worth the rich married man that graces their beds now and again and graces their bank accounts while their conscience is sold for today? Etc .

         There is so much to fight, yet to be effective we must fight predominantly one, one goliath for each David girl and boy, woman and man. What will your goliath be? What will you fight for?

Feel free to share in the comments box below.

Namaste {I bow to the god within you},

Call me Indigo.

God Is Gender Fluid

God is Gender Fluid.

Yes, i just said that and it’s absolutely true. God has no gender, God is a spirit, neither male nor female. However God can be to you whatever gender you choose. 

The patriarchy went for a masculine God understandably because they looked at the formidability of the high hills and mountains, the pride and intimidation of the tall Iroko trees, the almost life threatening apparition of a fast flowing waterfall, i could go on and on. 

The matriarchy went for a feminine God after observing the delicateness and fragile nature of a blossomed flower, the attention to detail and play of colours seen in the birds, even the smallest of the birds, the emotions that flood not just the human eyes but the eyes of almost every animal, etc.

 As for me i choose to see God as feminine, i call God, Mother. It resonates with me, and though i know She has no gender, my human nature to “genderlise”(yup, i think i made up this word) everything and everyone keeps me loving my Female God.

As further proof for if not all the religions but for Christians, there is nowhere in the Bible where God ever introduced the God self in any gender. You are free to flood in my comment box with scriptures from the bible to buttress your opinion.

Namaste {I bow to the god in you},

Call me Indigo.

The Secret To Life.

          What is the secret to life? What makes one person happy and another person sad? What makes one rich and another extremely impoverished? Why does one laugh and another cry? What is the secret to power, to enthusiasm, to joy, to courage? What is the secret that makes the world go round?

           It’s simple, the secret is that there is no secret or may i say, the secret isn’t so big a secret after all. It’s simply choices. That’s it. The choices we make turn out to make our life. So first we make the choice, and then the choice makes us. Tada! As easy as ABC, won’t you say? 

       Choices, that’s the big secret of life. Good choices = Good life. Bad choices = Bad life. Spiritual choices = Spiritual life. What influences your choices though? Your choices are majorly influenced by the information and things you’re exposed to, it’s influenced by the people whose approval mean the world to you, it’s influenced by your environment, what is cool, what is not? Peer pressure (Adults face this more than teenagers but that’s a post for another day...), etc. 

            When your life isn’t what or where you want it, it’s time to go down to the choices you’ve been making and change them. If changing your choices proves tricky or difficult, go still deeper and change the influences around you. For example you could change the people you spend the most time with, you could change the books and media you’re exposed to, etc. Changing your influences will greatly help changing your choices and eventually changing your habits (which are directly a function of your previous choices anyway) which eventually completely change  your life.

       In your spiritual journey, the choice to meditate for a few minutes daily, the choice to read whatever spiritual material you can daily or weekly, the choice to pursue yoga as not just a physical exercise but as a spiritual exercise as well would go a really long way.

Namaste { I salute the god in you}, 

Call me Indigo.