The other time I wrote about Minding Your Mind in which I called on my readers to exercise some measure of control over the working of their mind. Man should ensure that he does not allow his mind to run wild or allow vicissitudes of life propel his mind to madness. The mind is very powerful and in the spiritual realm it is believed that one’s mind can conjure bad things into one’s life. A man on a flight can conjure a crash if his mind is fixated on the aircraft developing engine failure. There is what is called Mind over Matter in which those initiated into this extreme Mind Control can lift a table by merely concentrating their mind on the object and giving the command with their thought.
It is my considered view that most times the Mind is not at rest. The mind is always working the same way the brain is. Even the so-called dream is the working of the Mind in transition. Dreams are thought processes of some kind. It can therefore be concluded that the Mind of man is permanently and perpetually at work until the man breathes his last.
Lets us break it down to basics. What goes on in a man’s mind varies from man to man and from circumstance to circumstance. What goes on in the mind of a prostitute for most of the day or even at night is essentially different from what goes on in the mind of an armed robber. The prostitute wakes up each morning thinking of the number of clients that will ask for his or her services that day. Prostitute is usually mostly concerned about the number of clients. Thereafter his or her mind will dwell on how to pay his or her rent at the end of the month, and whether or not some infection has found comfortable accommodation in his or her body. The mind of the prostitute is also engaged in the thought of his or her competitors in the neighbourhood and what to do to outwit or outsmart such competitors. It is not unheard of that desperate prostitutes resort to physical damage to their competitors. There is also what is called Diju Gbemi! in local parlance. ‘Shut your eyes and swallow the bitter pill’ when mating with a horrible and horrifying partner!!
The armed robber’s mind is never at rest. Even in the night he has no time to put his mind to rest or engage in a dream. You can dream only if you have a sound sleep. I don’t think you can ever have an armed robber who enjoys the pleasure of a sound sleep, may be perhaps if he or she is dead drunk. Most of the night, the mind of the armed robber is occupied with thoughts of possible arrest. He is always looking at his back.
In the day time when he is not at work, armed robbery work, he is drinking his life away in company of women of easy virtue. And while at that his mind is on two basic things; his next exploit and his possible arrest. His mind is exploring all the leads supplied to him by his informants while he is also having his ears to the ground concerning those that may be on his trail. His mind also worries about the faithfulness, steadfastness and loyalty of his colleagues in crime. Surprisingly the mind of the armed robber is not bothered about Nemesis or remorse. He believes that all those he has killed in the course of his heartless operations are mere collateral damages. He is not bothered about the women he shares pleasures with because his mind assures him that such women do not know his deadly secrets.
The driver’s mind is as varied as the kind of driver he is. If he is a corporation driver or a government driver, his mind is occupied with thoughts of the collusion he is engaged in with mechanics. While he is on his way to work his mind is on what trick to play on getting to the office; would the complaint be about the tyers, or brakes, or lamps, or the gear? His mind must cook up something.
He takes the chief driver into confidence or conspires with the mechanic. If he is desperate, he brushes the car against an object and comes up with the story of a lone accident. The bottom line is that the mind of the corporation driver must device a means of raking in some money that day.
Drivers of ‘master’s’ or ‘madam’s’ cars are about the most heartless of drivers. However much their Oga takes care of them, it is a fixture of their minds that they must be dishonest and crooked. Some drivers have confessed to me that small thievery is considered to be part of their trade. It is something they relish. Their mind procures lies and markets the lies as truths. For such drivers no day passes by without their mind teaching them a trick or two. Sometimes their mind tells them to deflate one of the tyers and when they go to the vulcanizer they come back with stories of four tyers having problems of their own. Gadgets and instruments in the car are always missing. Even fire extinguishers and jacks are routinely stolen and sold out to spare parts dealers. And when they are sent to purchase gasoline, they buy 70% worth of whatever amount they are given for the purchase. Even while behind the wheels, the mind of the driver is on what device to deploy to milk his boss.
Mothers! God bless them! Mother’s mind is permanently occupied with the thoughts of her children’s safety, their well-being, and their success at school or at work, and on how to provide the next meal for them. The mother’s mind thinks first of her children before bothering about her husband or boyfriend or even her parents. The mother’s mind is as potent as her prayers. This may explain why mothers are admonished not to nurse bad thoughts about their children, and children are warned not to let their mothers invoke evil thoughts on them.
It can be said without exaggeration that over 70% of a mother’s thoughts are all about her children. And this is reflected in the way most mothers speak of their children. Most mothers will tell you they suffer indignities in their marital homes because of their children, and when they have ample reasons to seek divorce and call it quits they elect to remain with terrible husbands just so that they can watch their children grow and turn out successful.
What goes on in the mind of the man, whether father or childless, whether married or single, whether separated or widowed? Man is always a man! His mind is first and foremost about making it in life through whatever means. A good number of men think of making it through straight path, but quite a number also considers other options. The next line of thought is to most men, enjoyment. How does he enjoy his wealth, his new status, and his successes? His mind may direct him to seeking flamboyant life style, accumulation of many wives or girl friends, the mind may seek expression in the bottle or partying, while it may indulge on how to make more conquests and accumulate more money or positions. The crooked mind may now seek help in dangerous rituals that may involve devilish magical arts and acts that may involve human blood! It is the mind at work.
Presidents and Prime Ministers and people in top positions also engage their minds. It is only a few of them that are blessed with kind and thoughtful minds. For most of them their minds are engaged on how they can perpetuate themselves in power either by personal succession or through surrogates and cronies, while their families and relations must appropriate the wealth meant for the whole land. Big peoples mind never find peace, never find rest. Throughout the day and night their mind is full of mischief and calculations, just like the mind of the politician obsessed with power.
The poor man’s mind unfortunately also neither finds peace nor rest. Tomorrow will be better is his singsong while he carries the triple burden of deprivation, repression and oppression on his bent back!
Please excuse me if I refuse to talk about the peculiar mind of Judges, Crown Counsels, SANs and those minds whose owners chew currency notes!
The human mind!

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