Envy Is a Waste of Time it Will Give You Nothing But Headache

Envy according to the oxford dictionary says that ill will at the superiority, success or good fortune of others or a grudging sense of another’s superiority to oneselfs. Envy can also be termed jealousy, when being jealous it means you have hatred or ill will towards the success or achievement of others. if you have Envy towards your fellow friend it is a total waste of time and resoures it will not give you the time to think of how to make yourself a better person or how to move forward or do better things, you would only be thinking of the persons downfall which cannot happen because the person does not wish you evil. If a person has a has a plain mind towards you and does not wish you any evil and all you wish the person is evil and downfall and not success out of envy and jealousy you won’t get any better in your present situation or from your present situation you will only continue to slack behinde because you will have more than enough things to think of and you will not feel any better or anything good from it but only regret. It is always adviceable not to feel jealous or envious of another person but to be contented with what ever you have and never be to greedy with someone’s else fortune you don’t know how the other person got or amassed his or her wealth it may be in the illegal way and in the process of you envying the person you may end up putting your self in more trouble so it is better and the best to stay in your line and do not get jealous or envious of what is not yours. When you envy someone you will lose a lot of things in the process of being envious you will not be able to see what is coming to you or what is about to be offered to you, it might even be the person you are jealous or have envy for that might want to help you but out of the envy and pride you have you will not be able to recieve the gift or help and when the person sees that you are not interested he would offer it out to another person or keep it to himself. In the process of envy you try to bring evil to the person and the person is someone that prays and he his plain even in your envy ways the person will only continue to progress and you will continue to slack and become wretched so it is better to abstain from envy and pray to be richer or better than those that are superior to you and have a plain and clean minds towards all people and you will see the progress that will come to you. Thanks for reading. From Flashnews, Click the link below for more Envy Is a Waste of Time it Will Give You Nothing But Headache

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A Person Who Masters Patience Masters Everything Else

As the saying goes “THE PATIENT DOG EAT THE FATTEST BONE“. A person who learns patience learns to endure in all situations and he won’t get shaken off by any circumstance whatsoever the circumstance might be either pressure from friends, family or work partner or in times of financial crisis he learns to endure and patiently waits till everything passes. A person who is not patient or does not know how to endure can not get anywhere because while being impatient he rushes into bad decisions or bad company or advice which can ruin his life or cost him so much and might not have a chance of making amendments and that would be it for him. It is better to wait for the right time and do not rush into anything, even while being patient you would get even useful information before you take your next step you would be able to analyse carefully and know those that truly evenn care for you because in such situations people who ddo not really care about you will surely leave you in your situation to deal with it yourself. A patient person can always achieve anything he aims for because he would always have enough time to think through before making decisions and he would be able to see the varieties of things he wants to get and he would surely make a good decision for not rushing into action. It pays to be patient so as not to get into much trouble because people would offend you but if you are not patient you may end up making the wrong decision in retaliating and you may end up causing more trouble for yourself than the person did to you, but if you are patient you would surely learn and know how to forgive or let go even if you do not wish to forgive the person you will not rush into retaliation which will cost you more than you could imagine but it is always better to forgive so as to have a plain and clear mind in your doings. So if you wish to attain high positions or be great in what you are doing and not to experience downfall or so as not to have any regrets for your decisions while be vexed or annoyed by someone or bieng in a critical situation or trying to face an obstacle it is better to calm down and analyse the situation so as not to take the wrong step. The only thing that can favour one if he wants to achieve anything or reach any level in life is to learn to be patient, for through patience anything is achievable. Thanks for reading. A Person Who Masters Patience Masters Everything Else

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Do Not Let Other People Block Your Goal With Their Own Perspective

Download our App For Easier Access FLASHNEWS APK HereThanks. Do Not Let Other People Block Your Goal With Their Own Perspective Posted on October 13, 2016 by ashyizzy Related Post Simple Tips To Get Rid Of Black Lips Tips To Soothe A Sore Vag!na After S3x Secret Places A Man Wants You To Touch For Ladies Skin Care Habits That Damage Your Face Looks That Will Make You Love The Low Cut Hairstyle (Photos) “Do Not Let Other People Block Your Goal With Their Own Perspective”. “BLOCK” meaning obstructing you or deceiving you or disturbing people, blocking you can mean so many things in all perspective,People can block you by giving you wrong advice on what you want to do. Read Also- A Person Who Masters Patience Masters Everything Else “GOAL” which mean your aim, your ambition, what you are planning to attain.Most people do not want you to reach your goal so in other to block or stop you by not fighting with you or making it look like they hate you or are causing trouble, they come in as friends and they would give you the wrong advice in the pretense of helping you and they make you lose focus of make you do the wrong thing.In some instances it might be a friend that might discourage you from what your goal you are wanting to achieve, for example you tell that friend you want to buy a new car next week but your friend being jealous and not wanting to show it may try blocking the goal by telling you that don’t you think next week is too soon and don’t you know what people would be thinking and make you lose focus of your goal because if you are not fully prepared for what you are chasing you would be lead astray and you will not be able to achieve that goal at that estimated time you had planned before. READ ALSO- Strength Doesn’t Come From Anger it Comes From The Heart If you have a goal you are chasing make your faith and belief strong so as not to get shaken by people who do not want you to achieve your goal, but it is always advisable to get good information about what you are aiming for and tell some selected people about it and inquire about it. No matter how selected the people are, there would still be some of the people who would still try to discourage and block you from achieving the goal you have set down, though sometimes people’s advice about letting go of some things are right because they might have seen the implication and consequences of what you are aiming for that is why you must be certain of what and where you are aiming at and chasing your goal towards. Do not waver, chase and attain your Goal until the very end and do not back down. Thanks for reading. http://www.flashnews.com.ng/2016/10/13/do-not-let-other-people-block-your-goal-with-their-own-perspective/

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Story of cities #5: Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace

This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century. The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”. Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages. Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”. Barely any trace of these walls exist today. View along a street in the royal quarter of Benin City, from 1897. View along a street in the royal quarter of Benin City, 1897. Photograph: The British Museum/Trustees of the British Museum Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace. Advertisement When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world. In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.” In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”. African fractals Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns. As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.” A plaque showing an entrance to the palace of the Oba of Benin. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A plaque showing an entrance to the palace of the Oba of Benin. Photograph: Alamy At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed. “Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.” Advertisement Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”. Family houses were divided into three sections: the central part was the husband’s quarters, looking towards the road; to the left the wives’ quarters (oderie), and to the right the young men’s quarters (yekogbe). Daily street life in Benin City might have consisted of large crowds going though even larger streets, with people colourfully dressed – some in white, others in yellow, blue or green – and the city captains acting as judges to resolve lawsuits, moderating debates in the numerous galleries, and arbitrating petty conflicts in the markets. The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy. What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city The city was split into 11 divisions, each a smaller replication of the king’s court, comprising a sprawling series of compounds containing accommodation, workshops and public buildings – interconnected by innumerable doors and passageways, all richly decorated with the art that made Benin famous. The city was literally covered in it. The exterior walls of the courts and compounds were decorated with horizontal ridge designs (agben) and clay carvings portraying animals, warriors and other symbols of power – the carvings would create contrasting patterns in the strong sunlight. Natural objects (pebbles or pieces of mica) were also pressed into the wet clay, while in the palaces, pillars were covered with bronze plaques illustrating the victories and deeds of former kings and nobles. At the height of its greatness in the 12th century – well before the start of the European Renaissance – the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures. “These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.” A drawing of Benin City made by a British officer in 1897. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A drawing of Benin City made by a British officer in 1897. Illustration: akg-images What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city. Immediately European nations saw the opportunity to develop trade with the wealthy kingdom, importing ivory, palm oil and pepper – and exporting guns. At the beginning of the 16th century, word quickly spread around Europe about the beautiful African city, and new visitors flocked in from all parts of Europe, with ever glowing testimonies, recorded in numerous voyage notes and illustrations. Lost world Advertisement Now, however, the great Benin City is lost to history. Its decline began in the 15th century, sparked by internal conflicts linked to the increasing European intrusion and slavery trade at the borders of the Benin empire. Then in 1897, the city was destroyed by British soldiers – looted, blown up and burnt to the ground. My great grandparents were among the many who fled following the sacking of the city; they were members of the elite corps of the king’s doctors. Nowadays, while a modern Benin City has risen on the same plain, the ruins of its former, grander namesake are not mentioned in any tourist guidebook to the area. They have not been preserved, nor has a miniature city or touristic replica been made to keep alive the memory of this great ancient city. A house composed of a courtyard in Obasagbon, known as Chief Enogie Aikoriogie’s house – probably built in the second half of the 19th century – is considered the only vestige that survives from Benin City. The house possesses features that match the horizontally fluted walls, pillars, central impluvium and carved decorations observed in the architecture of ancient Benin. Story of cities #4: Beijing and the earliest planning document in history Read more Curious tourists visiting Edo state in Nigeria are often shown places that might once have been part of the ancient city – but its walls and moats are nowhere to be seen. Perhaps a section of the great city wall, one of the world’s largest man-made monuments, now lies bruised and battered, neglected and forgotten in the Nigerian bush. A discontented Nigerian puts it this way: “Imagine if this monument was in England, USA, Germany, Canada or India? It would be the most visited place on earth, and a tourist mecca for millions of the world’s people. A money-spinner worth countless billions in annual tourist revenue.” Instead, if you wish to get a glimpse into the glorious past of the ancient Benin kingdom – and a better understanding of this groundbreaking city – you are better off visiting the Benin Bronze Sculptures section of the British Museum in central London. Thanks for reading.

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Motivational words

Facts of life
👉1.
Don't educate
your children
to be rich.
Educate them
to be Happy.
So when
they grow up
they will know
the value of things
not the price


👉2.
Best awarded words
in London ...

"Eat your food
as your medicines.
Otherwise
you have to
eat medicines
as your food"


👉3.
The One
who loves you
will never leave you
because
even if there are
100 reasons
to give up
he will find
one reason
to hold on

👉4.
There is
a lot of difference
between
human being
and being human.
A Few understand it.

👉5.
You are loved
when you are born.
You will be loved
when you die.
In between
You have to manage...!
*****

If u want to Walk Fast,
Walk Alone..!
But
if u want to Walk Far,
Walk Together..!!


Six Best Doctors in the World-
          1.Sunlight
              2.Rest
          3.Exercise
             4.Diet
   5.Self Confidence
                   &
          6.Friends
Maintain them in all stages of Life and enjoy healthy life


If   you   see   the   moon ..... You   see    the    beauty    of    God .....   If    you   see    the   Sun ..... You   see    the    power   of    God .....   And ....    If   you   see   the   Mirror ..... You   see     the    best    Creation of   GOD .... So    Believe   in     YOURSELF..... :) :) :).


We all are tourists & God is our travel agent who
already fixed all our Routes Reservations & Destinations
So!
Trust him & Enjoy the "Trip" called LIFE...

 Thanks for reading.

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The determination of a man is like the strength of a god

The determination of a man is like a strength of a god.
In my perspective being determined on doing something is when you insist and plan on never giving up on what you want to do no matter the trouble or distress you face on your way to what you want to get and the higher your determination the more strength you put on so as not to lose what you want to get and you will get stronger than what you expected.
He will get so strong like a god because of his determination and he will never lose. Thanks for reading.

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family is not about blood its about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most

According to the oxford dictionary a family can be defined as a group of people who live together or one that is similar to one that is related by blood, marriage, law or custom or members of ones intimate social group.                                                                                                                                               According to my view family might not be someone related to you by blood but someone you can lean on in time of trouble or when in need of help but nowadays its not always like that those that you expect to help you as a family will not be there to help you at a very crucial time but it might just be a friend that will help you out of your mess, those related to you by blood will not be of any help to you so they cannot be called family but your friend who
helped you out is your family and he or she is a family that loves you and does not want your downfall. So family isn't about blood alone but bonds and being there for one another.    thanks for reading...

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