I was inspired to write this after playing back memories of when I once traveled all night by bus from Lagos to Port Harcourt and by my seat sat this old man that looked finished and scraggy but what attracted me to this man was the knowledge he had and the way he spoke and like the natural me, I kicked a conversation with him as we stopped at Onitsha for a break. He brought out a lighter and asked me if I smoked and with the fear of not loosing this new found friendship, I played the con as I lit up the Benson stick shared with a bottle of stout only to turn it off with a smile that spelt not a smoker anymore. And then he proceeded with a story of his life. In a deep tone he told tales of his life and then said “Son, I’ve lived life, I’ve made mistakes, I know this great words doesn’t match my looks but glad you gave me a chance to chat with you”. He proceeded saying “ you see I should have had it all but traded doing the right things with what I wanted to do and what we always want to do might not be the best things to do, my problem in life can be summarized in one word, Women”.
These words stuck to me as he proceeded with words of wisdom that would eventually become a part of this writings that you read. I remember he also said “ No matter what, never lay your hands on a woman, stay off your best friends sister or girlfriends, always give something for a woman’s sex because except for a prostitute no woman gives her body to a man just like that so in a woman’s head there’s no such thing as we just had sex and that was it”. He explained how women dwell in an emotional frame men refuse to acknowledge, same way we do not see the strength of a woman till it’s used against us. He continued by saying “ I fell to the spell of seduction and love till a woman and the things that comes with it took the best of my time, thoughts and resources and by the time I realized it, son, it was too late” . Further ahead our conversation I felt sorry for him as I got his point of view in relation to how many men has also falling never to rise again all because of women .
This old man, a stranger to me continued by saying “I wonder how smart and wise King Solomon was if he fell foolishly to the act of a woman or if David could go against goliath with a stone then how come he couldn’t conquer a mere emotion called lust and by the way, the bible should have just told us that the only thing stronger than Samson in the bible was Delilah, else what could have stopped the strongest man in the world if not for Delilah and oh! I was so in love with the story of the great Julius Caesar till I stumbled deeper into his personal life” he said . He told me a true life story, a tale of the great Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. He continued saying “ Julius Caesar’s love affair with Cleopatra who happens to be a woman from Egypt, matter of fact she remains the last monarch from Egypt who became flirty with the most influential people in Rome and among them includes the likes of Mark Anthony and off course the Great Caesar.
Julius Caesar remains one the greatest ruler ever known with a dictatorship that pivoted Rome’s transition from republic to empire, he conquered so many territories including Britain and was known for his swiftness and intellects, he actually invented the date numbering system through the solar measure of time that became the basis of the modern calendar where he changed the name of the month Quintilis to Julius (July), after himself. Apart from his strong military skill and leadership quality, he was very charismatic, artistic and an orator (and actually owns the saying Venni vetti Vecci translated as “I Came ,I saw and I conquered”). But this man’s strength wasn’t as strong as his weakness for the strength of a woman as seen in his downfall relative to Cleopatra, a woman that possessed that strength as it even had Ptolemy XIII drowned in the Nile in the course of battle and With this victory Caesar easily could have declared Egypt a Roman province, but instead he retained Cleopatra as queen just because they were having something together, matter of fact after the war incidence and Caesar’s victory, Cleopatra was obligated by custom to marry her other younger brother, Ptolemy XIV, who was about 12 years old but since Caesar and Cleopatra had become lovers that wasn’t applicable. The great Caesar could not have fallen or maybe he could have been greater had he not falling to the strength of a woman. Meanwhile, Caesar and Cleopatra had become lovers. So many times he delayed attending to important matters of the state to remain in Egypt, Cleopatra even took him on a sightseeing cruise up the Nile, there he would stupidly be seen sailing the royal barge plus 400 of his ships in a display that Cleopatra used to show off power to her people. Caesar delayed attending to important matters of state to remain in Egypt. This frequent show of emotion especially canal love and lust led to the great Julius Caesar’s fall as Cleopatra sometimes joined Caesar in Rome, bringing unnecessary things and people with her and they’d live in one of Caesar’s villas as his mistress while they both ruled Egypt and Rome by dispatch. Meanwhile, many Romans grew suspicious of this development. Rumors spread that he intended to subvert the Roman Republic and establish a monarchy, ruling as a king with Cleopatra, a despised foreigner, as his queen. This threatened the prestige of many members of the Roman Senate so on March 15 in 44 BC a mob of Roman senators led by Brutus assassinated Caesar and the best Cleopatra did was to quickly return to Egypt as her power was no longer secured by Caesar’s influence.” This is a true story told to me by a stranger so I decided to write about it in relation to the strength of a woman
It’s a man’s world but women control it so like the rapper Nas said, “who’s world is it?”. Perhaps I can lend you my theory that says that explains how the world is mine because I choose how I create it and that’s not far from the biblical perception of creation. Since the world is made by God and us in his own image, how logically it really is I can use the power of his image to create mine, my world that is. And this same theory isn’t far from that of the renowned Free Mason member and perhaps the greatest prime minister to ever walk the face of the earth while fighting Adolf Hitler, am talking about the former British prime minister Winston Churchill that once said “we create our own universe as we move”. Yes we do, by the choices we make through our thoughts and actions, this same thoughts and action that determines a man’s faith in the seductive world controlled by women as well as that emotional and sexual urge that influences our wants, till we fall to a false comfort we need so much away from the sacrifice we fail to make not knowing that the compromise we take might Just be us trading our tomorrow for today, our lives for death and our success for failure by falling to the spells of the strength of a woman. Personally, I think that women are great people and a gift to humanity but am talking about the other sharp edge of a woman that causes seduction and the self destruction of a man, that is to say that women are not destructive but possess a spirit that can make a man that “chooses” to fall a self destruction mostly by seduction which can’t take to fruition without the consent of a man. That is to say that Seduction is a mind game which works with the help of our imaginations. It takes more than attempts to be lured; it works on the mind of people who subconsciously have space and time for it.
