IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE LONG TO MAKE SENSE...

Sweethearts,

How are we today? How was church or mosque or shrine or nothing? I'm doing perfectly fine. I'm down on 4 beautiful glasses of palm wine and I'm bae! Oh... I forgot to mention that I'm spending my holidays in the village due to some assignments from the bro...

I went to church today as is customary in most parts of Nigeria and the world on Sundays. The church here is like village meeting. The choir kills my vibe with every dang song they sing.

Something happened today in church and I got really angry. On our way to church, a heavy rain started. There's usually an umbrella at the back of my dad's car so don't worry, I wasn't beaten by the rain. The rain already gave serious signs before anyi akwadosia church so my dad decided he wasn't going. My sister and I went alone. Mum went for uka 5:30. We got to church and I was already very cold. My sister was putting on a  blazer so she didn't feel anything.
Now, my parish priest in his full chasuble and regalia of priests spent more than one hour preaching while I was dying of cold and he was properly covered. Is this fair? I wouldn't know why he preaches that long but I've always believed that brevity and sense makes a speech wonderful.

I've always thought that a blogger has to write extremely long articles to be seen as a good but then, a second thought came... BREVITY + SENSE = GENIUS.

I give you an instance... On that day at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863, two men spoke; one for more than 2 hours & the other spoke just 272 words in 2 minutes.

I bet you don't know the guy that spoke for more than 2 hours. His name was Edward Everette. I was right, you didn't know him.

I bet you not only know the other guy but love him. Abraham Lincoln! I'm sure I'm correct.

Lincoln's 272-worded 2 minutes speech that has come down to us as the Gettysburg Address is the most famous & most quoted in US history. In fact, the first few lines are so profound that every American must memorize it in school. More interestingly, the definition of democracy you know as "government of the people, by the..." was drawn from that speech.

I'm sure you've got my point already. Brevity as much as simplicity is genius. But make sure you've got stuffs and sense in there.

Ngwa byeee!