There is no need to bicker over nonsense or allied useless enterprises. For instance, all three words in the caption are already so contextually undressed that there is no need to perform any conceptual clarification. Bickering means bickering and crumbs is crumbs, but bickering should never happen and not over crumbs. Bickering over crumbs is like double jeopardy, double shame, double stupidity.
In some sense, bickering is both a crime and a sin. Bickering is a crime against man, a sin against God. That is part one of the comedown. The second and, if you like, more shameful half is the object, or reason, of the bickering.
You get my drift now, don’t you? What are you bickering over? Who are you bickering over? With whom and where are you bickering over what or who?
In this discourse, the foregoing is a fundamental battery. The truth is, you cannot answer or understand them honestly and still bicker. Flee from bickering, even if you can’t. However, if you must for whatever reason(s) bicker, go a-fishing only in oceans -never in rivers!
Let us together break that down. Never bicker over money, especially over chicken feed. The so-called millionaire Nigerians who bicker over a hundred million Naira would not believe their hollowness if they found themselves in the United States and their mutual American friend intervened in the feud. “Hey, buddies, you mean, less than a million dollars can make you both war against each other this childishly?”
Bickering over money is not worth it, no matter the amount involved because there is always more; there is always a higher amount that can be made. And, money really is nothing; here and beyond here. Those who bickered to the point of breaking up let alone killing another because of a few or so much Naira or even dollars or pounds and euros get greeted by folly at the end. Beware, I say, beware; don’t be so rich in money but too poor in mindset!
Similarly, personnel of the law, in uniform or not, who bicker over bribe with the same citizenry, they are paid to protect, to the extent of lying against or jailing or killing them, and vice versa, should understand that they in one fell swoop commit several crimes and sins. Please deduce them yourself, having now known what you know. If you have some class, money must be the least cause of bickering for you.
Again, be warned: money has no sense, no soul; it only has lousy power and a useless spirit both of which count for nothing at the end.
What about those who bicker over rights or privileges? Don’t they make you ashamed as colleagues or family or friends?
Imagine bickering over where to sit at work, in the car, in class, on the plane or where to stand in the queue, etc. Imagine bickering over some things as ephemeral as where to park your car, or a first-time error, or an unproved allegation, or a parcel of land, or where and how to be buried as if you shall still have the power of oversight.
Imagine the penultimate and the last in that line-up. You who bicker over land or boundary, even killing in the process, have you considered seeing a psychiatrist? When you die and arrive hell, as you surely shall, you shall see that your compartment is that reserved for mad people. Meaning: there is no need for you to worry now about how and where you are to be buried when you die!
Less worse, imagine the husband who bickers with his wife over a particular seat at the dinner table or the wife who bickers with her husband over his mother (her own mother-in-law) occupying the front seat of their car with him driving. Imagine the puerile and unsenatorial senator who bickers forever and quite unladylikely over a mere seat position and in the process prefers going on suspension to behaving senatorially. Imagine the teacher who bickers with a female colleague over a particular student she scored A whereas he had scored her C. From such sodding bickerings, flee permanently.
Then, there is the worst bickering of them all. Pray, how do we help those who bicker: one, over church population and size; two, over food; three, over selfishness; four, over women (or men), and five, over people or things they have absolutely no control? Exactly what goes through their mind? Is there a sicker venture than these?
If the church is truly God’s, why should the earthly caretaker boast so much about building and membership sizes? Hello, God, did these people call themselves? Are they the people You shall at the end announce You never knew?
Elsewhere, never bicker over food, nor over anything. How can you biker over sh-t, which is what food is after a few hours? How can you bicker over the fact that we caught you stealing and said so, or that we refused for you to continue using us? How can you bicker over others freeing themselves from your evil stranglehold?
Furthermore, never bicker over anybody, no matter who, no matter where. Superiors should never bicker over subordinates, and vice versa nor over themselves. Bickering is too low, too ungodly, for anyone, anywhere, created by God. Never bicker over another’s favour or promotion, not just because life is turn by turn but really because it is pure evil to bicker over anybody, anything.
The point there is that if we strive but occasionally fail to never bicker with anybody, over anything whatsoever, some places should be out of bounds. Of course, such places are not far-fetched. Why should any sane person bicker in or over the church or such other worship centres where you are meant to only learn godliness; the home where you are meant to only learn coexistence; the school where you are meant to only learn virtues? Bickering is for small people.
You are too big to bicker so forever eschew it. Even if you can’t. Even if what is involved is far above crumbs. Even if bickering is the only way out.
God bless Nigeria!