EXPOSITIONS BY E. I. OPUTA

Good morning friends, my name is Emmanuel Oputa. Today, I will like to talk to you about adopted quotes and stereotyping. You see there are a lot of things we do and believe to be normal and are status quo but shouldn’t be. In our individual journey to discover ourselves we have to be cautious of the cast to which we are molding our selves. Sometimes the cast is religious, sometimes it is societal structured, sometimes it’s just a result of generalizations and accepted norms. We must try to discover ourselves for ourselves. There needs to be an original reason for everything we do. Don’t just take your bath because it’s an accepted norm to do so, do it for a reason you can believe in and will never regret.  I’ve discovered that a lot of quotes and common beliefs have proven to be false or unacceptable to me. For example: 1. “People do not change”: People actually do change. Those of you that have known me for a long time will attest to this fact. I certainly I’m not the pe

"This psychological fever happens mostly to ladies but it has been known to infect guys too. It is the great desire to marry for one reason or the other that makes them disregard necessary safeguards or processes in other to reach that goal quickly. This phenomenon often makes the victim to see marriage as the ceremony and not the institution which the ceremony celebrates. Many ladies due to the trick of their biological clock have been known to dive headlong into the “marriage race” because they do not wish to “lose”. The marriage ceremony is just that - a ceremony. Marriage doesn’t occur when the officiator declare it to have occurred. It is a bonding that happens long before the state and people are invited to celebrate / mark it. Emphasis on the ceremony has left many bewildered as there are no special feelings that differentiate a single existence and a married one." . . . . . . I noticed that some single folks tend to feel