TOSIN IKUYINMINU

Right from when I was a kid, I always knew I had this flair for art, designs and colours aside public speaking. This was a major thing for me to the extent that it influenced my dress sense, my enthusiasm for graphic designing and my respect for art. So this was how it all happened... After my encounter with an inspiring entrepreneur in the furniture and interior design industry Adebiyi Fawole, who exposed me to the stress, fun and beauty of furniture making. I was opportune to connect with a lot of carpenters, upholsterers and wood work artisans. This exposed me to a lot of sawmills and market places where furniture materials are sold in Lagos. I must confess, I really experienced the intensive work in terms of energy, resources and time this guy's go through before they can come up with a beautiful furniture piece like the chairs, dinning set, cabinet, wardrobe, beds, console, kitchen setting etc. Trust me, all these items I mentioned really take an intensive work to produce...

I was watching a vox pop on TV three weeks ago and the interviewer was asking some series interesting questions on the streets and one specifically got my attention the most which was when he asked, " if you were notified by your bank account manager that all the millions in your account was eliminated without no traceable means to find out what caused such transaction, what will you do? " A lot of interesting response came as the question was asked to some persons, in fact some said they will commit suicide others said they might never recover from such lose. Amongst all of them a particular man's statement inspired me and this was his comments, " If such happen to me, of course I will feel bad but I have no choice but to move on with my life ", the interviewer was so amazed with such response of which he was forced to ask why and the man replied saying, " if I truly made the first millions of naira in my account then that means I can make the money ag...

I will never forget this experience I had five days ago. I was at the workshop with some artisans when a dumb beggar came making all sort of gesture trying to communicate to us in helping him with some money to eat and surprisingly he brought out ten naira note giving signals expressing that was the only money left with him. Humorously, I replied him saying, I even don't have any money with me, he should be thankful that he even has ten naira and I wouldn't even mind if he could give me the ten naira with him. Surprisingly, he smiled giving me the last ten naira note with him and immediately he left. I paused for some seconds as I was so shocked with such response from a beggar, believe me if I tell you I have never seen such in my life. What a beggar ! Immediately, I removed the last one thousand naira note I had with me from my wallet and ran out chasing him as I gave him the money. He couldn't say anything obviously because he was dumb but I could tell from his expr...

Its been a while I shared something discovered out of deep provoking thoughts like this. Trust me, you might want to read through till the end. Few weeks ago, I met a young man at an event, we got talking, after introducing myself he was shocked as I mentioned my name, saying he as being following me on Facebook for a while. What got my attention the most was when he made a statement saying,"I have been following your contents on social media and I have always assumed you to be way older and mature than this". Yeah！It somewhat sounded insulting but I later realized he had a point with such statement because that wasn't the first time I was told something like that. So I laughed and replied saying "It is my mind". To be factual, every content I dish out on social media is a product of the deep thoughts birthed from my mind. Believe me, if there is anything I can be proud of, it is how I have worked on my mind within past few years. We are living in a percept...