Hate-Watch? - by Friday Okwori

We’re back. Welcome to the new football league season. The love of the beautiful game is what brings us together now, regardless of the league you believe to be the finest. Do you recall how challenging it was to spend weekends without matches on your screen? You had to make yourself go to bed or spend time with your buddies. For the next nine months, sheer entertainment, art, passion, joy, and rage will be on display. What is not to love about the round-leather game? Oh, apologies, if you don’t watch or understand football. In summary, we’ve outsourced our happiness for the next nine months to some bunch of eleven total strangers. What’s football without banter? The goal for every matchday is for your club to win so you can hate-watch other clubs. A successful hate-watch brings about a great deal of pleasure and joy. You get to watch the highlights all over again. Oh, hate-watch isn’t just a club football thing. It also happens when nations play. Fans desire other teams to fail for a variety of reasons. One explanation that is never acknowledged or expressed is that you are envious of the other team's progress and you want them to fail at any cost. People barely acknowledge this, as I mentioned. There were two brothers who were quite accomplished in various fields. They showed everyone what was possible and made tremendous progress. They set the standard for success in their industries. They were their parents' only offspring. People often talk about ‘old money’ but their parents were ‘first money’. They were the first dwellers of a very fertile land. Till now, the details of how this exactly happened remains sketchy but everyone agrees that they were the first inhabitants. This place brought their parents enormous wealth. They actually sold lands to both private citizens and large corporations. If they had hundred problems, money was certainly not one of it. Back to the brothers. The older one worked as a commercial farmer. In college, he majored in agricultural business. Cash crops including coffee, cotton, cocoa, and palm oil were his main focus. The majority of exporters and processing firms purchased their produce from his farms. He had a number of stadium-sized farms. It's hardly surprising that he eventually achieved success because he dedicated his entire life to his farm. To grow both the business and himself, he enrolled in a number of professional courses. He was a farmer with intelligence. From basic farm practices, he created sophisticated and practical business concepts. He was an extremely successful businessman by any measure. His younger brother was also into in agriculture, but in a very different way. Taking care of animals was his love and passion. He was a cattle farmer. His livestock was countless. Cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, and horses were among his many animals. He was primarily an exporter. He would tenderly care for the livestock, sell them to people in different nations, and profit handsomely. He immediately started practicing his trade after studying animal husbandry in school. He was kinder and more compassionate than his brother; perhaps this was due to the course he took in school. Taking care of animals had brought him more wealth than he could have ever dreamed. The boys acquired firsthand knowledge of success principles from their parents. Giving was one of them. They learned to give voluntarily. The younger brother took it to another level. He gave willingly and generously without expecting anything in return. You couldn't outperform him in giving, no matter how hard you tried. It wasn’t a show for him. However, his older brother didn't realize that it had nothing to do with the size of the gift. The elder brother was only interested in the size of his substance, he didn’t care about the condition of his heart. He started to envy his brother's generosity. He didn't really have to. He refused to acknowledge his jealousy of his younger sibling. It was no longer banter. He gave the envy more time to fester, and it eventually turned into full-fledged hatred. Not hate-watch. He looked for ways to pull down his brother. Why do that when both of them were extremely successful businessmen in their own industries? Envy does that to everyone. It makes you feel unworthy and robs you of what you have. Despite the numerous awards that surrounded him, he believed himself to be a failure. He was on a perilous path because of envy. He believed he understood what he was doing, but before he realized it, he was in serious trouble. He caused the family and himself to be ashamed and ruined. Envy did cost him everything! Article is culled from the bible, Genesis 4.

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