THE ECLESIASTIC MAD WOMAN

She comes here every day, sweeping, packing and disposing all by herself. She’s uninterested in what anyone has to say about her, she sweeps as if it is a wage-bound labor based on time. What a perfect way to demonstrate her diligence.

Had the street boys hanging around did the same thing, wealth will not be unfriendly with them.

Alas! They say she’s insane, compilations of all troubles of her life in her small head busted it, maybe it is self induced, a tale of ‘what you sow you shall reap’ but whichever it is, unconcerned she does her sweeping.

Her masterly command of Yoruba language and accurate response to all questions asked made me doubt her insanity. Only her legs that are painted purple like fowls marked for Christmas and her over-powdered face cemented her place in the assembly of lunatics.

She sweeps and begs for money to enable her dispose the dirt on the debris, she maintained her composure if no one reaches out to her, she gave no room for self-pity and always insisted on paying the ‘Aboki’(cart pusher) who was to help her dispose the dirt on the debris.

She knees saying heartwarming thank you anytime Aboki volunteers to dispose for free. Surely the sanitation of the sane is not as sane as that of this insane.

If insanity nurtures such lucidity she is sane and we all are insane.

Her ecclesiastic lifestyle preaches diligence, self-respect, humility, integrity and gratitude.

She has a passion to see the surrounding clean regardless of whether she lives there or not.

She sweeps and sweats and won’t leave any dirt untouched, that’s diligence.

She does the sweeping giving no attention to what people had to say about her and she insisting top pay the Aboki despite her poor status is self-respect.

Having to beg for alms to discard the dirt without feeling she deserved to be favored by passersby is humility, an active ingredient of greatness.

It was an act of integrity when she insisted on paying the Aboki even when he insists on not collecting money from her.

Bending her kneels to say thank you for every money given to her was an act of gratitude, an act that can spur God to action.

No motivational book writer will make any mistake of omitting any of the above qualities when writing on how to be successful in life.

Now, let this mad woman teach us how to live and be successful.

And if truly insanity nurtures such virtues then all that want to be successful must pray to be plagued with her type of insanity.

Written by Soul'e Rhymez