My childhood was fun, we had a name for everything. If you grew up during the era I did you'd know about "cheap article". It was a curse word for us those days
Those days if someone called you a cheap article, you feel like the person has done the worst thing to you
"Cheap article" was used to describe someone that is worthless, a never do well, in fact, as the name implies, a cheap fellow
"Cheap article" originated from cloth market, second handed clothes which are popularly called "okirika".
Okirika clothes are always stocked in bags which are called " bells".
One very significant thing about the bells is that whenever they are opened, individuals, customers go to select the clothes grade by grade and the prices of the clothes also differ
The first graders pay more money and so they are allowed to select first so they select the best.
The second graders then come and select the second best, the third graders do the same. Finally what is left is called "cheap articles". Hahahaha.
Cheap article is like the chaff
I noticed that the first graders are always very few, followed by the second graders. But those that go for the cheap articles are always a multitude.
Most times they even fight themselves while selecting from the cheap articles
Now, this is the lesson:
Cheap articles are always plenty and those that go for them are plenty too
The first graders are few and they paid more
The first grades are very expensive so only a few could afford them, while the cheap articles are very cheap and everybody could afford them
Look around you, most things that attract crowd in our world today are "cheap articles".
Think about lies, deceit, immorality, drunkenness, drug abuse etc.
Everybody can achieve these things and everybody seems to be doing them. Very cheap articles
Honest and noble men are very few, and its very hard to be a man or woman of integrity today because they're very expensive!
So, would you rather go for the first grades or do you want to be a cheap article?
It's all up to you. Think about your life, where you are right now. Are you a cheap article?
Are you proud being a cheap article with the crowd?
​upgrade yourself
