Respect !
"The greatest need of a man in a relationship is not respect as opined in some quarters. Respect can be gotten from any quarters, just like sex and food." ?
Chidi: Ai beg to disagree, strongly! Sex with some ugly monkey? Food, ice cream, from the garbage bin? A man is thirsty should not mean that he has to drink dirty water. No Sir. Our governments and politicians have to respect us , that's the very least we can ask. We put them where they are : Every Mouth Must Be Fed
"some quarters" indeed" !
Same quarters : Chidi's methinks like Paul's methinks: "the greatest is love." (two eyes wide open" or tightly shut)
"Now I know we have great respect
For the sister, and mother it's even better yet
But there's the joker in the street
Loving one brother and killing the other
When the time comes and we are really free
There'll be no brothers left you see" (We People Who are Darker Than Blue)
There's the fool who can't help falling
in-love
in-fatuation.
There's this wonderful story
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland :
Alice Falls
into a Rabbit Hole ( some people's favourite hole)
"The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her, and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything: then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves: here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down ajar from one of the shelves as she passed: it was labeled "ORANGE MARMALADE" but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar, for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
"Well!" thought Alice to herself "After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!" (which was very likely true.)
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? "I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?" she said aloud. "I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think-" (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) "-- yes that's about the right distance -- but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?" (Alice had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)
Presently she began again. "I wonder if I shall fall fight through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think-" (she was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) "-but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand? Or Australia?" (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke- fancy, curtseying as you're falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) "And what an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere."
Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do..."'
That was Alice. Well, so long, farewell Alce"
This is about Ragshag Bill from Buffalo:
"One day he fell in a prospect hole, in a roaring bad design
And in that hole he roared out his soul, in the days of '49 (Dylan : Days of '49
As the pastor knows, the opposite of love
is hate ( two eyes open or two eyes closed.
On Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:31:52 UTC+2, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM wrote:
The greatest need of a man in a relationship is not respect as opined in some quarters. Respect can be gotten from any quarters, just like sex and food.Methinks that the greatest is love. The kind of love a man gets from his partner(female, of course. I do not subscribe to homosexuality and do not also believe that love can only be found in conventional marriage) cannot be gotten from anywhere else.Love for me is however, not a "blind", "unconditional" concept.It is real, conditional (to the availability of other variables) and with its two eyes wide open.The opposite is infatuation.CAO.
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