Femi LazarusCEO at Femi Lazarus Consulting

The energy small people use in fighting themselves, they always can't use in bailing themselves.

19 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker reflects on how groups of defeated or marginalized people, especially within academic campuses, turn their unfulfilled ambitions and frustration into self‑destructive behavior. He describes lecturers who feel angry because younger generations pursue paths they could not, labeling this as a "recycling of pain" that spreads through the community. The speaker also highlights moral hypocrisy: society condemns petty theft of a small amount of bread while imposing severe punishments and costly retaliation, yet ignores larger systemic injustices. He argues that when people are made "small" by systems, they will resort to harming themselves and others. The talk concludes with a call to a ministry that seeks to uplift individuals, inviting those who feel called by God to join and not be held back.

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When you leave many defeated people in the same place, they will finish themselves. That's why I say that most of our campuses, you have lecturers who are angry because you are going a direction they couldn't go. Unfulfilled dreams. A lecturer that planned to finish first class, another lecturer stopped him at 4.48. You now, you now say you are 4.5 something, they will cut you. It's recycling of pain. That's what is happening. Sometimes you look at it online, you see people— somebody has stolen bread and And we shout, thief, thief, thief! And they buy petrol that is more expensive than the bread and a tire that is more expensive than the bread to burn him for stealing a bread of ₦100. Then the same people frustrate for those stealing their Commonwealth. When you make people small, there is nothing they will not do to harm themselves. It's systems. When this ministry started, called our people If God is calling any of you to a work, let me know. We will not hold you down. Majority of those I thought will be with me in the future, God called them.