Luck & Risk - Nothing is as good or as bad as it seems

Every time my friend and I run into a financial crisis that requires a hell lot of money to fund, we will always joke about finding a kidney receptor or buyer to sell our kidneys to. So it was quite funny to find that pop-up on my Google feed this evening while I was trying to find writing inspirations.
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You know a few weeks ago, I watched a movie on Netflix, titled, Yahoo Plus. Lord, you all must see this movie if you are one of those who constantly think "plus up" as young people call it is a thing in the con business. This movie taught me "plus up" is a cover for all the atrocities that happens behind the scenes of young people and their sudden wealth.

The truth is, social media fed all of us with the ideology that young men find willing and greedy ladies to date, and then lure them into the promise of having rich fiancees just so they could cut their body parts and feed to the gods of wealth. Surprisingly, the moment a young woman's body ends up on the street with her vital parts missing, we think in this direction. We scoff and blame them for trusting those get-rich-quick boys who succeeded in using their bodies for rituals.

This movie pointed my friend and me in the right direction, the night we saw it today. Although my friend swore it was just a movie and that rituals do actually exist. He even based his claims and beliefs on the fact that these young men often end up mad on the street after they can no longer come up with more body parts to sacrifice.

I tried to explain to him that it's mostly guilt that weighs down on them. And when they can't take it any longer, they fall into depression, take their lives, or run mad on the street. My friend did not want to listen. He even pointed out that the rituals are real, that's why they ended up with lots of money. I tried to tell him that here that's faith or something called getting rid of one's limiting beliefs and believing in the fact that they were created to live in abundance is at play. By so doing, all they have to do is speak wealth into the universe, believe it, and then go ahead and put things in place to manifest it by either learning a skill, going to school, learning about their finances, etc., etc.

Let me run backward a bit so you will get my point. In that movie, a doctor disclosed that there's never a ritual for Yahoo boys. What they do with those body parts is sell them to high bidders and stuff. If you have watched or read a lot of movies and books respectively, you will see that families who are on the brink of losing their loved ones would often do whatever it takes to get a certain body part to save them. And getting on the waiting list is never anyone's choice at that point because it's often on a "first come, first served" basis. So these innocent and illegal body parts move from the innocent victims to the doctor, who manages to make them stay alive long enough for the transplant. He gets paid, the boys get paid, the girls die, the boy flaunts the money, every other person gets attracted to this newfound wealth, the girl's family mourns her death, and soon, moves on. Rinse and repeat.

Now back to the top. You realize there's no ritual right? But my friend wouldn't agree. But let's say there were rituals conducted, I have a good feeling that behind the back of those boys, the organ harvesting happens, and the native doctors pretend to offer that up to the gods, one way or the other, the boys just have to believe in the ritual, and because they do, their faith gets translated to the universe, and whoever they are trying to defraud falls a victim and they cash out. Did you notice it had nothing to do with the ritual but everything to do with their beliefs?

I am sure you do! What this movie taught me was that it's either the boys often get in touch with the organ harvesting process and those who can't handle what the greed to get money in a short while had made them do end up losing their sh*t and run into the street...mad. Or they simply have to be a part of a fake ritual where their faith is harnessed and connected to the universe and they come intact with money... somehow. While writing this post, my head brought other things I did not have the chance to bring to my friend's attention.

What if the other analysis where they are made to believe rituals have been conducted after they bring the ladies whose parts get harvested happens this way? They bring the ladies. The doctor harvests the organ. The native doctor fakes the rituals. Then somehow, a few persons are set up to act like clients in their respective DMs, and once they go about doing their usual routine, trying to scam someone, this set-up person pretends to be conned. Asks for their payment options, sends them the money, and they wine and dine, thinking they actually scammed a sane person. After all, they would have all their information, won't they? Whatever accounts they are trying to use for the con business and stuff, those benefiting from this will have people who can track these things. Or it could just take a simple question by the fake native doctor to get why all the information they need on the boys. So the setup person knows exactly whose DM to put on the radar and gain access.

You know anything could be possible right? But whatever the routes they may have taken, I have a good feeling if there wasn't a ritual involved and backfiring happening, it's mostly their minds that couldn't bear the thoughts of killing someone's girl in exchange for sudden wealth that barely lasts long. Or wait, what if those doctors drug their food and drinks to turn them into mad people the moment they wanted out? Hah! Don't blame me, too much knowledge deals with me sometimes.

To draw this to a close, I did not read the post about the organ harvesting ring that has been recently uncovered here in Abuja on my feed just yet. I had to write this post first before my inspiration turned into sleep and of course, time was already against me

At the same time, I don't know what you'll make of this post, just remember what Morgan Housel says when it comes to money, investment, wealth, and the rest;