I consider myself simply lucky. My luck is inborn. My unambitious material tastes are inborn. I don’t crave titles, money, estates, fame, overseas travels or sojourns.
It is not out of any piety. ‘Na so I be’.
When I told a well wisher very recently that ‘God forbid bad thing’ when he wished the silk for me, guy almost dropped dead in shock.
Far less income earners (mechanics, vulcanizers, panel beaters) etc have earnestly counselled me on occasions to have a new car but I am not yet displeased with my 15 year old Green Saladin.
They say ‘ha you are bigger than this’. But I know it’s a lie. I am not bigger than I am. Which money I get?
I am not comfortable in loud, noisy, ‘shekarimi’ parties.They actually bore me.
On account of this outlook, there are many who look down on me.
One fellow Ikeja Bar Chairman once derided me as unsuccessful. Another colleague, a hilly billy actually, had labelled me before, as a lawyer with stagnated practice. Such are the views of materialists and they don’t count.
What counts for me is whether one is living a life of positive impact, a life of good legacies. At 59, I am glad I am not an anonymous Lagos lawyer, or worse, a notorious one.
Reading the sincere adulation and commendation about me, even in their modest quantum, from diverse quarters, when I turned 59 on 27th July 2023, I am encouraged to even strive more after the admonition of JESUS THE CHRIST: ”Let Your Light, So Shine Before Men, So That They may Give praise to your Father which art in Heaven”
•Adesina Ademola Ogunlana, Esq.
1964-2024
LUCKY DEVIL ….BY Adesina ‘SERUBAWON’ Ogunlana, Esq
