IGNORANCE COULD BE DEADLY

There was this story about the ignorant man that one of my mentors shared with me some years ago. I have decided to share the story with you and I hope you will enjoy it as well.

The story is about a milkman living in one remote village in a certain kingdom. His name was Deenu. Deenu decided to build his hut far away from his village, in the woods after he observed that people no longer values the virtues of Truth, Piety and honesty. He was very comfortable and preferred the quietness of the woods rather than the noisy atmosphere of the village.

He lived there alone; without a wife or a servant except his two cows. He fed them well and took proper care of them. Everyday he took the two cows to the field to graze and to a nearby lake to drink water. The two cows gave him enough milk to make him live comfortably. With the milk that the two cows gave, he earned enough money to live happily.

Deenu was an honest man and was contented with the kind of life he was living but there was something that keeps bothering him. Quite often, he’s always worried and wondered why the world was full of so much evil and wickedness. Each time this thought comes to his mind, his mood changed and he’ll be so sad.

One evening, as Deenu was returning home after selling milk in the village, he saw a saint sitting and meditating under a tree. Being bothered again about some of the stories of evil and wickedness he heard from the villagers, he then decided to meet the saint to enquire from him if he knows the solution. Deenu slowly walked up to him and waited for the saint to open his eyes.

After a while, the saint slowly opened his eyes. He was surprised to see a man patiently sitting beside him.

“What do you want?" asked the saint humbly.

“I want to know what the path to Truth, Piety and honesty is?" Deenu asked the saint.

The saint smiled and said, “Go to the pond nearby and ask the fish the same question. She will give you the answer."

Anxiously, Deenu went to the nearby pond and asked the same question to the fish. The fish said, “O kind man! First, bring me some water to drink." Deenu was surprised and replied, “You live in water. But you still want water to drink? How strange!"

At this moment, the fish replied, “You are right. And that gives you the answer to your question as well. Truth, Piety and honesty are inside the heart of every man. But being ignorant, he searches for them in the outer world. Instead of wandering here and there, look within yourself and you will find them."

This gave an immense satisfaction to Deenu. He thanked the fish and walked home a wiser man. He changed the way in which he saw this world as well as himself. From that day, Deenu lived a happier man onward.

He took his best to carry this massage to the rest of his villagers. All his friends accepted him as their leader and consulted him to overcome their mental problems.

My dear, there is this saying that ignorance is a disease. The truth is that; it is not just an ordinary disease but a very deadly one for that matter.

Merriam Webster dictionary defined ignorance as, "a lack of knowledge, understanding, or education: the state of being ignorant.”

I have decided to write this post today because, the greatest challenge is not lack of information or awareness but ignorance occurs when people assume that a particular kind of knowledge is not useful or important to them. That is why, the root of ignorance is ‘IGNORE.’

Today many people are either, poor, sick, living with HIV, living with cancer, diabetes, etc or had died because they ignored certain essential knowledge.

For instance, let’s look at the aspect of our health. I must talk about this first because your health is the most important factor that determines your success in life. Unfortunately, many of us know so little about our health. To many, being healthy simply means waking up strong and able to go about our daily activities.

Just last week that nation was shocked by the rumored death of Dr. Chris Ngige (the Hon. Minister of labour, Nigeria), although the story was later found out to be false. But the truth was that, the actual incident involved an unidentified visitor to the National Assembly, who reportedly suddenly took ill while he was still walking along the corridor of the national assembly building. The unnamed visitor eventually collapsed and died in the process.

That man some minutes ago would have been described as a very healthy young man – but the state of your health is not from the look of your face.

Even in this age of information, you’ll still be amazed how so many people are still living in ignorance. Our life style today is fast making our planet more and more dangerous to good health. Smoke pollution, unhygienic habits, consumption of alcoholic stimulants/drugs, etc.

When last did you check what the statistics are saying about chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, etc? It will be an act of ignorance to wave it aside and be confessing ‘it’s not mine portion.’

Of course it’s nobody’s portion but for someone whose glutathione level has depleted, such positive confessions is just foolishness. Once you are above 20 years of age, your glutathione level will start to decline and the symptoms includes general weakness of the body, aging rapidly, lost of memory, poor sexual performance, etc. For you, it is possible that this is the first time you are hearing about Glutathione.

Over the years several researches have been carried out to find out how to help the human body boost its ability to produce this essential molecule. As at today, there have been over 98,000 publications about glutathione in pubmed.org (the USA official library of medical research). After about 25years of extensive research, Dr Herb Nagasawa ( a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Minnesota, USA ) has discovered a medical breakthrough for helping our body cells to produce its own glutathione naturally.  

The American National Institutes of Health (NIH), The Veteran’s Administration Department of Medicine and other scientific institutions funded, peer-reviewed and published Dr Herb Nagasawa’s research work which demonstrated the unsurpassed effectiveness of RiboCeine for boosting glutathione.

The good news I have for you today is that, this medical breakthrough is now being introduced in Nigeria by Max International. Just some few days ago, this February, 2016, the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has given approval for the product to be marketed to Nigerians.

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