Your Passion is BULLCRAP if...

Hello beautiful people, how are we doing? If you are in Nigeria, I hope you have recovered from last week’s heartbreak. No, I am not talking about Valentine ’s Day, lol. I’m talking about the elections that were supposed to hold on Saturday, February 16^th. My heart goes out especially everyone who made unimaginable sacrifices to make sure they could vote last Saturday, such as travelling across the country, shutting down businesses, sleeping in terrible environments, travelling in from outside Nigeria, etc. Please, don’t give up or get tired. We will prevail in the end.

I belong to a WhatsApp group of my former classmates in University. For some time now, nothing serious or life-changing happens on that group. The only thing worthy of note on that group is that one lady terrorises us with political broadcasts, mainly highlighting her anti-Buhari sentiments, and how bad the country is. It is really annoying because the group consists of all kinds of people with different political leanings, but this lady doesn’t display social media etiquette, so I guess it doesn’t matter to her.  Most of her broadcasts are ignored by everyone on this group, but I can guess people are always inwardly rolling their eyes when she posts. As for me, I just wished she would know better and stop. 99% of what she forwards can’t be verified, and are inflammatory.

This morning, this lady put up an online voting poll where people where voting for their preferred candidates, indicating that Buhari was going to lose, and Atiku would win overwhelmingly. A friend of mine replied her saying, social media polls can’t be taken with a pinch of salt because most people on social media don’t have PVCs, and many of the voting population are on the streets, not on social media.

Imagine my shock when she responded saying, even she doesn’t have a PVC.

Like how is that possible?

I get it if the average unconcerned Nigerian doesn’t have a PVC, but you, with all your broadcasts, unnecessary arguments, and seeming passion about the state of the country doesn’t have PVC? In fact, you should be the face of PVC. When we check the dictionary for the definition of Nigerian PVC, we should see you flashing your PVC with a big grin, beside it.

At this point, I couldn’t hold it any longer, cos I had been terrorised long enough. I just had to speak up.

My tackle

Her response

My rebuff

I have heard of people like these, arguing up and down social media and with their peers and colleagues, causing strife, and creating enmity, just because of politics, and they don’t even have PVCs, that will help them put their money where their mouth is.

So what I have noticed is that passion is not truly passion if it isn’t backed up with actions that defy almost impossible circumstances, and I am not talking about elections alone. We can apply this to several areas of our lives, including business, family, career, spirituality, etc. Passion is not mere energy, argumentative spirit or doing the default thing that everyone can do, like clicking buttons on your phones. Passion might not be measurable, but they are judged by results. Your passion is bullcrap if it doesn’t yield results, it is not passion. It is mere laziness masked as passion with the veil of the convenience of mere talk and technology.

P.S: This post is not to castigate anyone who didn’t get their PVCs. I understand the frustrations some people went through, just so they could get their PVCs, and were still not successful. I myself was disenfranchised last elections when they told me the data of my entire polling unit was ‘corrupt’, and we wouldn’t get PVCs. This time, I even had to 'use' my 9 month old baby to wade through the discouraging crowd. I was at the edge of giving up myself, so I dare not judge or label anyone who doesn’t have PVC.