If you haven't seen the celebrated Bollywood "3 idiots"... I rest my case. For those of us that deemed it necessary to see a movie that could teach one more about friendship and true education than anything else can, I like to invite us to take a closer look at one of the characters of that groundbreaking movie. Not Rancho. Virus.
If one were asked to draw up a list of lessons gleaned from the Rancho character, I believe that the list will be endless. The reason is not farfetched: in him is no guile; he is a perfect human being in every sense of that word. What about Virus? Everything was wrong with the man. For driving his own son to suicide, his daughter Pia accused him of murder. For driving his student, Joy Lobo, to suicide, Rancho accused him of murder. In one word, he was the Hitler of Imperial College of Engineering, ICE.
While we take Virus for an undesirable element, we shouldn't forget to imbibe the one thing that was great about him: Time management. Virus had trained his mind to simultaneously write with both hands. Virus uses his siesta time for shaving. Like he did to Joy Lobo, he wouldn't sit down to discuss bullshit with anyone. Virus didn't allow a second slip through his fingers unaccounted for. And remember he was sincere enough to hand Rancho the astronaut pen.
And so, I thought about Virus the last time I went to cut my hair; I normally spent 30-45mins on it. This time I told my barber I'd be reading while he did his job. Guess what? I covered a considerable number of pages. Once I spent 11 hours doing Lagos to Enugu, and I tried to make it count. While waiting on First Bank's usually long queues, I try to get busy. And whenever I've to wait, I remember that waiting is not wasting.
All thanks to Virus!
A great piece by Cornelius Ndubuisi.
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