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The other side of fear is passion

There really are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic.

The other tool is passion. A kid in love with dinosaurs or basketball or dance is going to learn it on his/her own. He/She’s going to push hard for ever more information, and better still, master the thinking behind it.

Passion can overcome fear—the fear of losing, of failing, of being ridiculed.

The problem is that individual passion is hard to scale—hard to fit into the industrial model. It’s not reliably ignited. It’s certainly harder to create for large masses of people. Sure, it’s easy to get a convention center filled with delegates to chant for a candidate, and easier still to engage the masses at Wembley Stadium, but the passion that fuels dreams and creates change must come from the individual, not from a demigod.

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Ethiopianism!- (@NathansReality)

If you are ashamed to stand by your country, you had better seek another flag. 

Author Unknown

Reading the above quote made me ponder, puzzle, gaze, stare and wonder. Like millions of my fellow Ethiopian, I left the land for betterment of myself and (possibly my family and my fellow country man).  But, it never occurred to me that my journey was rooted on shame of the state of my native land Ethiopia or that I sought for another flag.

I don’t deny or betray my Ethiopian upbringing; neither I lament wishing what I could’ve never been. But, I am yet to find an Ethiopian that is not perplexed by the continuous impoverished state of our existence.  I am yet to meet this individual, who, with boldness and confidence confesses what Ethiopia really is.

The type of exaggerated picture of Ethiopia; that the 3 thousand year old history, a gift from God, a nation with unprecedented natural wealth, and a nation that is a role model to the human race… the type hyper inflate picture of Ethiopia hasn’t stopped millions of us from fleeing the nation as if running away from a disease infested rat hole.

As for me - there is only one condition that will enable me to lift my head up with an Ethiopian pride – when my nation’s beggar hands that have stretched for generation are folded down and begin carrying our own head; that is the only beginning of the end to our shameful placement in the face of the world.

What does Ethiopianism mean to me?…

Appreciate Ethiopian Women? - (@NathansReality)

personally i think we Ethiopian dudes don’t appreciate our ethio girls. .being straight up. i believe ethio girls wana date us but they don’t like us cause we treat them bad and we always play on them. .one thing is that our woman are beautiful like 60 percent are amazing… - Jay Mulugeta

I agree with you when you say, we, Ethiopian men don’t appreciate our Ethiopian women. If you actually sit down and think about it, Ethiopian women are no different from the men, Its safe to say that Ethiopian, in general lack appreciation for the opposite gender. 

Men Point of View

Ethiopian women are very beautiful, and us men can sit and give them endless complements on there beauty, but we don’t.  The reason is majority of Ethiopian women are self absorbed. they only do things primarily for their benefit, they put their feelings first, and they can’t do anything when they don’t feel good, swayed by their emotions, they are more concerned with themselves than others, they prefers personal glory over team victories, they are pleasure seeker, they always try to uses their looks to get what they want, gets angry when they don’t get what they want, dramatizes their suffering, wealth seeking, superficial, manipulative, narcissistic….

* I JUST LOST ANY CHANCE I HAD OF EVER GETTING LAID!! *

I will attempt to win you back on my next blog so stay tuned…

Why Girls always go for BAD guys. - By @NathansReality

Most guys would say, Girls lack common sense and contradict themselves all the time.

As for me, it’s fairly simple actually. Subconsciously, girls really want a challenge. They want to make that bad guy into a Prince Charming, they don’t just want to start with and keep that Prince. Any guy experienced in dating will probably tell you, what you need is confidence and challenge- the confidence that you will get the girl, but the challenge that is the lack of desperation on your part.

I for one am a nice guy, I really just never get the girls no matter how hard I try. Why? Well, other than the fact it’s hard to change my ways, I’m just nice- and available. I’m no challenge, and I have nothing to fix. Therefore I do not fit the bill of 90% of girls that want that fixer-uper. The only problem is, once the girl fixes the guy- it’s over. It’s kind of the polar opposite of the “therapist” type guy- That “therapist” type guy being the one that is never happy unless you are unhappy and he’s helping you.

Hope that helps.

@NathansReality