THE GRADE E:
Written by Daniel Masese on June 27, 2024
Thursday,27th.June.2024.
He arrives in the Japanese city of Nara, eminent for its pagodas and sacred deer.
He is recognizable courtesy of his wavy, swept back hair, charcoal eyebrows and folksy grin as he clinches the microphone at that rickety, makeshift wooden podium at half an hour to midday.
His mission is to endorse a Legislator running reelection to the National Diet, the Japan’s National Parliament.
He had hanged the boots two years earlier; however his long in the tooth political career catapults him into that pedestal.
He is the longest serving Prime Minister of Japan.
A claque of supporters endow him earth wrecking, thunderous and torrent rounds of applause capered with standing ovations; save only one 41 year old man clad in a gray polo’s shirt punctuated with a pair of cargo trousers and a jet black and dark strap; regrettably, no one notices that.
No sooner does he make his speech, than the young man armed to the tooth with a homemade gun-two 16 inch metal pipes strapped together with a coal pitch black and dark tape; assassinates him brazenly in the broad daylight.
He makes no escape attempts and the security guards arrest him.
Aged 41 years only, why did he assassinate the longest serving Prime Minister of Japan?
He was just four years old when his father, a big cheese of a company masterminded by his grandfather, committed suicide.
No sooner had his mother made an inroad into the Unification Church, than she embarked on unreservedly dishing money and time; so much so that the family was crippled by the manacles of abject pins and needles.
Despite his bright eyed and bushy tailed academic prowess; he had to only hear of university but never got into any. His dyed-in-the-wool academic dream was aborted. His academic aspirations were defenestrated. Regrettably his brother committed suicide.
After a three-year stint in the Navy, he joined a factory being a casual worker with measly chicken’s feeds payments.
In media interviews, his uncle made a clean breast of it of the 41 year old son’s mother donating 60 million Yen(440,000 Dollars) within months upon subscribing into the Unification Church; the Church founded by Mr.Sun Myung Moon and his better half Mrs.Hak Ju Han Moon.
The uncle added that he had to stop at the dropping of a hat manner sending money tailored to basic needs as the 41 year old mother gave it all to the Unification Church.
Upon extensive and intensive probing by the security agencies, the 41 year old assassin made the clean breast of it,”Despite us being endowed with resources; regrettably we never enjoyed them as our mother dished them all to the Unification Church.
In order for me to obliterate my accrued acerbity, I had to assassinate the longest serving Prime Minister of Japan Mr.Shinzo Abe; as he is a member of the Unification Church.Thanks so much.Read my lips.I rest my case.Period.”
The 41 year old assassin is none other than Tetsuya Yamagami.
Prior to his demise, he had amassed 260 awards under his waistband, the most rad one being the Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo in Norway.
After 27 years behind bars in the Robben Island Prison, on Sunday dated 11th.February.1990; he was released. He valiantly fought against apartheid and self-governance to the South Africans.
Regrettably, he lost three of his children to HIV and AIDS.
He had time for the country; regrettably no time for his family.
He is none other than the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Founding Father of South Africa President Nelson Rolihlahla Mphakanyiswa Henry Gadla Tata Madiba Mandela.
Upon reaching home from boarding school, the children narrated how they were awed by the parents to those stemming from humble strata having quality time with their children during visiting days; while their mother only cleared their fees, gave them the academic prerequisites and left, no quality time with them.Those from humble backgrounds envied their affluent and coveted lives.
She immediately changed and ensured that she spends quality time with her children.
This is a confession made by Her Excellency President Samia Suluhu Hassan during her first speech upon ascending into the Presidential seat.
“By the ALMIGHTY LORD GOD’S transcendent grace I was the first woman to successfully acquire a Doctor of Philosophy in East and Central Africa.
By the ALMIGHTY LORD GOD’S transcendent grace I was the Member of Parliament for Tetu constituency.
By the ALMIGHTY LORD GOD’S transcendent grace I authored books.
By the ALMIGHTY LORD GOD’S transcendent grace I masterminded the Green Belt Movement.
By the ALMIGHTY LORD GOD’S transcendent grace I did receive fifteen Honourary Degrees from the American, Japanese and Norwegian Institutions.
By the ALMIGHTY LORD GOD’S transcendent grace I did receive fifty Honourary Awards from various entities globally.
By the ALMIGHTY LORD GOD’S transcendent grace I was the first black African woman to be feted the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate at Oslo in Norway on Friday dated 10th.December.2004.
Regrettably: never did I have quality time with my children.”
These were her confessions on her deathbed at the Doctor’s Plaza in Nairobi Hospital on the Sunday dated 25th.September.2011.
She is the late Professor Wangari Muta Maathai.
The shipshape American Acme: Entrepreneur, Industrial Designer, Inventor, Investor, Magnate, Media Practitioner, Philanthropist and Trailblazer blew his last aged 56 years only at Palo Alto, California in the USA on the Wednesday dated 5th.October. 2011.
His resting place awaiting the second advent of Jesus Christ is Alta Mesa Memorial Park.
He was birthed on the Thursday dated 24th.February.1955.
He is the: Chief Executive Officer of the Apple Inc. Company; Co-creator of the Apple II; Macintosh; iPad; iPhone and iPod.
Regrettably, on his deathbed on Wednesday,5th.October. 2011; he bit his fingers that never did he have quality time with his children.
He is none other than Mr.Steve Paul Jobs.
THE GRADE E:
Emphasis: too much concentration was laid at his Priesthood ministry at the expense of his family’s time.
Entanglement: nothing would separate him from his Priesthood works.
Too tied to it was he.
Example: he failed to be the worth emulation role model to his family.
Expectations: myopically and in a raw baked manner, he thought that his High Priesthood status was a green card for his children to make an inroad into Heaven.
Parking a bicycle at a car park can never transform it into a motor vehicle.
Parking a motor vehicle at a dock can never transform it into a ship.
Parking a motor vehicle at the airport can never transform it into an aeroplane.
Making inroads into the: churches, mosques, shrines, synagogue and temples never transforms one into the all round the clock dyed-in-the-wool: Christians, Muslims, Traditionalists, Jews and Hindus respectively.
No matter how long a log of wood stays in the river, it can never become a crocodile.
Coincidentally the High Priest’s name starts with an E and he scored an E.
He is none other than the High Priest Eli.
Do not be so busy preparing and burying others that you forget to prepare and bury yourself.
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself? Philosopher Epictetus.
If thou hast the ability to love, love thyself first and foremost.
Vincit qui se vincit: he conquers who conquers himself.
He who leads others is courageous; he who leads himself is more intrepid.
He who unearths, unpacks and unravels microscopically, surgically and relevantly others is intelligent; he who unearths, unpacks and unravels microscopically, surgically and relevantly himself is more erudite.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing thyself is pukka, smudges and veneer void wisdom.
Mastering others is true strength; mastering thyself is true power.
How can I bank on one in the birthday suit giving me a shirt?
Higgaion!
Those who do not have time and opportunity to stop at the railway station always find time and opportunity to attend their own funerals and burials.
Selah!
By Professor and Philosopher Daniel Masese.
