CAREFUL vs CAREFREE

Country People,

Let me come in the Nigerian parlance of greeting people in pidgin “country People”. I welcome you to another week. I hope everything is fine with you, work, school, family and loved ones? I am good and I give all glory to God. I want us to consider something fundamental this week, I hope you will find it interesting, are you careful or carefree?

Careful is when you are systematic in your approach, being careful is when you exercise caution; carefulness is when you don’t want to miss anything out. A careful person could be tagged a perfectionist by some people, a careful person does not commit mistakes anyhow. When something goes wrong with a careful person, a lot of people would sympathize with him or her because they are sure they really went out of hand.

Carefree on the other side is when you hardly care, you do all spontaneously. Nothing matters to a carefree person; just getting solutions when things go wrong is the mindset of a carefree person. I remember going to a hall of residence in a University and I found out that majority of the windows close to the door had broken nets. Basically, many of these boys are carefree as such they prefer to break the net, open the door and gain access to the room than keeping the key to the room carefully.

Being carefree is a challenge for many families; men burden their wives; women turn their husbands to nagging people. Let’s train our children right from the beginning. Let us not turn caution to the wind, being careful does not mean there would be no accident but it guarantees it’s reduction and being carefree does not equally mean everything would be mistakes.

Being careful is cheaper and safer while being carefree is expensive and wasteful. Being careful can prevent geriatric medical treatment as a result of what we eat and drink while being carefree opens the door to many terminal diseases.

Join me in creating a careful world where we cherish orderliness.

Best regards