Opportunism: Why Lawless People Always Win.
Poverty makes people opportunistic, it brings out their dark and manipulative side, because of their desire to eat, drink, clothe, make merry, and feed. However, we make too many excuses for "poverty" and this is because poverty is a state. When people fail to fight it, they'll begin to find comfortable ways to establish a "stayable" situation.
A lot of people justify their wickedness, they call it "the need to survive", while it's true that people do desperate things to survive, there's actually a thin line that people should draw, hence they'll lose their humanity and become savages without conscience.
For example, my brother's passing has generated a lot of turmoil among his kinsmen. These people are clamoring for all his properties to be sold so that the money generated can be used to redo a second burial.
The rioting has become too much, and the truth is that watching these men pander for over a 24-year-old who never fulfilled his goals in life, married, had kids, or even owned a sustainable business makes me wonder how far some people can go to justify their savagery and greed. It was that scenario where Jesus was nailed to the cross and his tormenters were casting lots to see who would take his garment.
These people are people who never contributed anything meaningful to his life, it's surprising how they live up to 90 and 100 years and continue to perpetrate their dark wickedness. The fact that they're demanding a second burial can only be proper if the person who passed is of age, had children, or established themselves. These men are not completely poor, most of them are just opportunistic.
They're always waiting for people to either marry or die to fulfill their nefarious intentions.
They're like the urchins, vigilante or mobs in every established society of eastern Nigeria
I spent a part of yesterday weeping profusely. This is because, I find it absurd that some old men want to collect money to eat and drink, rather than weep that an illustrious son, who could potentially be their grandchild is no more. It makes me question the need for morality, but it's understandable, people justify their wickedness with cultural appropriation and this goes to show that death reveals so many things.
On the other hand, I won't blame them.
The universe does not follow the ethics or principles of morality. Good people are powerless and depraved, while wicked people are in positions of power.
The people who control the corner piece of the earth are mostly villains..
People who creates pandemic and provide the vaccines in exchanges for billions, affluence and power
people who have kept others in servitude, and taken advantage of humanity to enrich and make themselves more powerful. It's bizarre, but terrible people are the ones who get to live long pleasurable, and influential lives.
There's no decency in the human order, and when you think news of death can make some people empathetic, this is when people become even more opportunistic. These people are trying to rob the dead, someone they never recognized what his face used to look like. Someone who they never knew his struggles.
It creates a ripple effect.
Decency is what makes good people stay good.
I thought about so many terrible things to do to these people, but apparently, I wouldn't want to carry that guilt all my life. Decency makes people appear weak. When people are good, it's impossible to reach into their soul and establish vengeance.
The world is a wicked place, and wicked people are the ones that thrive. People who go the extra mile to become diabolical are the ones who are on top of the food chain, and it's so antithetical to realize that people who follow the rules of decency and humanity are the ones who end up not making it.
There's no retribution in life.
Most of the retributive scenarios we create in our mind through movies or theatre are just a manifestation of our thoughts, in real life, bad men are the ones who control reality. I'm doubting if I'll not end up to become as twice as villainous as these people after this painful experience.
Afterall pain is what redefines people, when you begin to realize there's no justice, it might want to make you create your own justice, life is lawless and follows no pattern, you mostly get to realize this when you look at loss, reeling from the wickedness meted out to you
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Atrocious! I can't believe they're doing this. God! You must be in turmoil right now. And sadly, you are right. People who are diabolical always end up higher in the chain of life.
This makes me sick and very hurt. I am sorry, but let fate do its job. However, it sees fit.
There's no retribution in life. Bad people wins, they go free for every evil deeds, thoughts and actions and it's sadly these people who do not experience pain or loss.
Smh ... life is just filled with shits sometimes.
It's sickening to see such things happen but then there's nothing we can do about it. Unless you're able to put the law into your hands, like many do today. Pain is one of the greatest teacher and has made people show their true colour, because it's that time when they think you're helpless and vulnerable.
Fighting for what is right is something I've always done, even if I lose. Because it's better to fail while doing what's right than stand watch and still be defeated. But we all have our own way of doing things. Tbh, im personally not in favour of a burial of anyone below 30. It's even shocking to hear them suggest such a thing.
Stand strong man, and don't let these opportunists pressure get to you, it's hard enough losing a brother
It's sickening, like you've pointed out. What makes it even more terrible, is tasking someone who is grieving, instead of helping them to actually recover and move on. They do not want to know how the family of the dead would cope. Being an only sibling, I'm going through a lot of hurt, and I've learned so many things in this period alone. It's futile to fight these people, you can't win, but I'm absolutely going to make effort.
Most of them don't know about grief, only gains. It is when they have the latter, that they'll care about your pain.
It's true, the situation is distressing. People with malicious intentions often seem to come out on top in life.
A lot of people are now desperate to get what they want and they don't even care if it will cost lives
People are becoming wicked each day and we need to be extremely careful
Exactly, need to be mindful.
Agreed. All the evil people live the best lives. They don’t care who they abuse in the process.
This is true
there is no justice in this world, and when I was young, I was one of those people who also experienced bad family members. It's not easy to cope with those people just because the only thing they care about is themselves, they don't care about anything other than their pocket and their mouth.
This is the time you must be strong and don't let anybody exploit your weakness
People who have good extended family members do not know how lucky they are. I was mostly exposed to terrible ones all my life, it's saddening.
Thanks bro, I'm trying hard, even if it's not working, I'm still trying. I'm giving myself the time to grieve as much as possible.
It sucks to hear that other relatives are doing that. Money is always a tough matter to touch and I know it definitely isn't fun. When some of my grandparents died and they had to do something similar, my relatives also argued. I avoided it because I wasn't part of the people getting anything but my parents weren't so happy with how things went either.
People will always show that greed in the face of stuffs like this. It's Painful when one is grieving and the argument is all about things that shouldn't matter.
This is dark stuff indeed and I can't imagine how painful it must be for you
but I still hope that you will find a way to focus on the beauty of life, once again,
sooner rather than later.
Sending love and light.
Yeah, I'm really finding it hard. It's been almost impossible for me. You know when tragic times happens and all your cards at getting better or recovering isn't just working.
I get it.
Not sure if this helps at all but I heard somewhere, recently, that the strongest carry the most.
You can do it and will pull through this.
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There is a question I ask myself sometimes "Why do the bad men live and the good men die" Poverty has corrupted some people's minds and made them do heinous things just to survive. I understand where you are coming from because I was once in the same situation when my father passed away. People that don't bother to call or check on us appeared all of a sudden and all they kept asking was what about his properties overseas.
Don't worry bro you will get past it. I wish you the best as you move forward.