The Covid-19 pandemic took the world by surprise and nowadays it has become the trending topic on news media and social media platforms in every country of the world.
But what if I told you that Covid-19 isn't the worst thing in the world today?
The truth is that the worst thing that could happen to anyone is not contacting Covid-19 or dying as a result of it; rather it is to be born into this world.
Permit me to give you some of my reasons for saying that:
• An Igbo proverb says that "A river does not swallow someone whose feet it didn't see."
That means if you were not born into this world, you would have no business with Covid-19.
• Covid-19 is not the last pandemic, epidemic or plague that will visit humanity. For the fact that you were born into this world, you're predisposed to contacting other diseases that may appear in the future.
• Being born into this world is like parachuting into a battlefield without any weapons or formal military training. In this scenario, you are expected to learn to defend yourself and survive or be slaughtered.
If you knew before hand and had a choice, you wouldn't go on such a journey to planet earth.
• Being born into this world is like being thrown into a furnace of suffering. You suffer in every imaginable way starting from your youth and wither away through old age. That is hardly a desirable proposition.
• Being born into this world is like finding yourself in the midst of total strangers and you don't know who among them is a friend or an enemy until you experience betrayals, envy, hatred and the like. You might even realize that your best friend is a Judas and through all these experiences, you realize that you should not trust any human being, just as the Bible warns.
• The only thing that is guaranteed in this world is that some day you will die and that things will continue to change whether you like it or not.
Tomorrow is not promised you, which means you can find yourself thrust into eternity suddenly through Mr. Death. And I think that is hardly desirable.
• Being born into this world opens you up to regrets. You might regret having married the wrong wife or husband which made Satan your father-in-law and every day a hell on earth. You might regret listening to the advice of some people which turned out to be the worst mistakes of your life. You might even regret letting some opportunities pass you by.
Let's face it... Life is full of regrets and if you are like me, you would love to avoid them by not being born into this world, if you could.
• Being born into this world is like being chained to a rollercoaster.
Day after day, the circle continues and yet despite all your efforts, you have made little or no progress.
You can feel time slipping away and you have no control over it.
Meanwhile, you notice that while you're riding the rollercoaster, white hairs have started appearing on your head and you become afraid of the possibility that you might leave this world without fulfilling your dreams.
My friend, all these things mentioned above are enough proof that being born into this world is something profoundly worse than Covid-19.
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