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By NewdawnSep 30, 2020, 05:25 am0

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Contradicts: Answers many life unanswered questions

If you are looking for inspiration book in this season that is authoured by a Nigeria, look no further as whst you seek elsewhere is in the bookshelf near you; in fact is in Oregun area of Lagos and with many book hawkers on the traffic throughout the country.

The book is titled “Contradictions: Lessons from the school of life,” written by Mr. Somi Uranta whose first book, A Date With Failure: …, another unput downable literature appeared on the shelf 16 years ago. Since the, Uranta who has refused to look back in yerms of collecting of materials for his books despite his hiatus to acquire more Western education at the University of Lagos, Akoka, breezed in with the latest last month.

Hear Unranta on why he took time off his crowded schedule at Somi Steam Car, Kudirat Abiola Road Oregun, where he calls the shot as the founder and Chief executive officer, “After pausing to ponder through all the questions that arose from the former and attempting to proffer answers to them, eventually led to more unanswered questions, I decided to share my thoughts with regards to the paradoxes, contrariness and endless contradictions which seem to be the reality of man’s chequered mortal existence…

“For example, how does one resolve the intrinsic contradictions in the widely acceptable, yet erroneous lines that; “life is not a bed of roses, while in reality, life could actually be likened to a bed of roses, because when you see a bed of roses, looking so alluring and beautiful on the surface, just beneath the blooming and alluring surface are thorns. It is these thorns that actually give impetus to the external beauty that captivates the passersby.” As it is with the bed of roses, so it is also with life, in that, the observable often times, are far from the reality, that the really real are hardly perceptible by the 5 physical senses of sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing, but rather through the 6th sense or mind, which is imperceptible.”
Uranta posits that, “all of life Is a school, where all our daily experiences comes either as a lesson or a blessing, depending on which comes first, we must prepare for the other, for they follow one another, like the night, the day. ”
The book, CONTRADICTIONS: Lessons From The School Of Life is quite instructive and makes an interesting read, in that it arms the reader with informed guide on how to navigate better through life’s vicissitudes.
The book is published by SPW Publishing and Company and with a forward by Professor Chedozie Okoro of the department of Philosophy, University of Lagos, Akoka, currently on sabbatical at the department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Accra.