INTEGRITY: SAFEGUARDING AN EGG

Few days past, my head wouldn’t allow me have an unbridled moment, deprived me of harmonious breathing, regarding how well integrity can be defined.

I am a believer of integrity being indispensible.
Time immemorial, integrity wasn’t a scarce commodity compared to its staunch absence in today’s world.

Then I came to a halt, reminisced and concluded that the detailed stories of how the prophets spent their lives connote the true and unbiased definition of integrity. I am not convinced by the well structured lives they lived, but exactly how they perfectly they maintained not breaking the egg of integrity.

Maybe because they were messengers of God coupled with them being special and extraordinary.
Puzzled about why I concocted egg and integrity?

I nurture an intrinsic notion that integrity is as delicate as egg to protect. A pinch of display of disintegrate is enough to crush your valuable asset, the one you’ve kept for many of years.

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defined integrity to be “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.”

Maybe factually integrity incepted from God himself.
That, he arduously kept and fulfilled his fore promises to man to be his provider and helper is typically an example.

To his prophets, he promised and kept them all. Various other examples may be incognito to me and you but they occur in some corners of life.
Few are those whose lives are worthy of this sentence: My father is an integrious man because his values are congruent with and evident in his words, actions, personality and life.

In the world of today, you wonder why people are neglectful in living a life worthy of emulation and failed in attempts to become role models to the up and coming generations.

Covetousness and greed are the benchmark of today's leaders, their respect and honour are spinning in the mud.

Examples of such leaders are not farfetched in the black race. There, you see generians stick to wheeling the power and inflict death and hazards on the proponents of change. I was thrown into awe when I heard an African leader who is obviously more than 90 and lucky not to have become an unseen ancestor, didn't debunk the rumour linking to him another presidential ticket of the same country he has ruled for over 36 years. It was an absolute display of shame and loss of integrity.

Gone are the days, when the religious leaders adhere to the teachings of Christ and Prophet Muhammad(SAW). Apparently, they now infuse their own subjective ideas, making it seem Godly and orate them to their gullible followers.

I sometimes wonder if the swearing-in ceremony of politicians in our dear nation is not scenery. Maybe the scripts are nollywood oriented, who knows?

If you desire a happy ending, being integrious is inevitable.
Moral principles, honesty and adherence is the key.

BY OYINDAMOLA BADEMOSI