A very popular saying, don’t put all your eggs in one
basket. I don’t know who has the credit for this coinage and the wonderful
intentions the person might have had; Yeah, wonderful intentions. Look at it
literally, it makes perfect sense. Eggs are fragile, and can break if not
handled with care. Sometimes when you even handle with care, anything can
happen and all your eggs gathered in a single basket will go to meet their
creator. Creator ni? Hehehehe…. If every broken egg goes to meet their creator,
which is God, who we also go to meet, I wonder if their will be enough space in heaven.
All them eggs lying around everywhere…gosh! Hey! That was just a joke, a bad
one, I know…but its naija, we are so so used to bad jokes, if you are not, I
am.
Meanwhile, if you spread your eggs in several baskets,
peradventure *what kinda archaic word is that?* something happens to one
basket, you would have lost some, but there will still be enough in other
baskets. Smart, right? Personally, I don’t know about that. Why? It’s simple.
As you are distributing your eggs to several baskets, you are spreading your
risks too. The probability of losing some continues to increase as you increase
the number baskets.
Now, if you are still going along with me literally, then
I’m afraid I lost you at some point. This scenario can find application in so
many areas of life, but I am concerned with one right now and that is how this
rule have been made to apply to relationships today.
It is quite an audacious statement, but it is my view that
in relationships today, peeps are no longer putting their eggs in one basket.
You can hardly see a person with just one plan. The ladies will have to forgive me here, but i think they have been excellent at this. There must be plan A and at
least plan B. That is even in the best of cases. It’s not out of place to see
people with plan C, D, E and F. I, for one, will not be surprised to hear of a
plan X, Y and Z. I wonder the nomenclature that will be derived to
accommodate the plan that will come after Plan Z.
I’m sure you have your own opinion about whether it is more
of girl’s problem or that of guys. My personal view is that you can hardly find
a girl who is willing to put all her eggs in one basket. She prefers to spread
it out among several plans, like it’s a lottery, waiting for the number that
will come through.
I can hear them blaming guys for it. It’s a very normal
thing with humans to put the blame on others, unless your name is Akon. Here is
what the ladies say: “I loved the guy so much, but he cheated on me! He broke
my heart! So, I decided not to be putting my eggs in one basket again o” wow!
How brilliant!
I did not discover it, but I have confirmed that ladies
don’t like nice guys. Damn right! You can scream NOOOO!!!! all you like, but it
can’t sway me. I’ve seen it countless times. They prefer the flashy cocky bad ass niggas who act so aloof and over confident. The guys who don’t have any
regard for their womanhood nor respect to the tenets of gentlemanliness. The kind
of guy that you go to the mall with, and he gives you the cart to carry; while
he picks up the groceries and fills up the cart for you, while also hanging one
of his hands on your shoulder. Love shee? Dirty smelling love, if you ask me. I saw this one at the mall few days back, the girl was carrying the items all by her self, and the unmerciful guy also dropped his hand on her shoulders. extra weight. He is paying for the shopping and so fu*king what!
I use to have one of those kinda guys as a close pal in my
university days. His girlfriend carries the loads. His excuse? He needs his
hands to be free so he can protect her. Can you imagine? Like a lion could jump out of nowhere. The day I learnt he
beats up the girl too, I thought I was dreaming. Hard as it is to comprehend, that’s
the kind of guys the ladies want to be with. Oh, did I forget to mention that
these guys cheat with any opportunity they get? Damn right!
Eventually, the girl gets jilted and cries her eyeballs out.
She ingeniously comes to the conclusion that all guys are the same. And the
next smart move outta her head is to have multiple plans on her next time out. How
nice.
Guys, I tell you, being a “nice guy” is very good, but you
need to know what you are getting yourself involved with. Be a nice guy and you
will be overlooked, taken for granted and will be hurt over and over again. At best,
you will be rewarded for being a great guy by being made a plan B at the very
best. If you are not so lucky, plan E or F.
It’s a free world, and YOLO …what you do is entirely up to
you. But it will be great to see young people, the ladies especially, putting
their eggs in one basket. This may be a d*ck move in some other areas of life,
but surely not in matters of the heart….
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