Nollywood actor Sylvester Madu has shared how he borrowed money to buy a blackberry passport phone just so he could measure up to his peers.
The actor recounted the story in a lengthy Instagram post while advising his followers on how fickle material things can be.
“I Love time. You know why? Because time places a value on everything you have or do, whether it is good or bad, right or wrong. Let me begin with the Almighty… BLACKBERRY PASSPORT,” he wrote.
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“You and I thought it was the best of phones, such that no other can be better. Lots of relationships and even marriages broke because of this phone. I had to borrow money to buy it just to belong. But just yesterday I saw it lying helplessly and uselessly in one of my wardrobes untouched and unused for years.”
“What am I trying to say….those things you value so much and even dying for, is it really worth it? What will be the value in 5 or10 years’ time? Some stole, killed and fornicated and even lost their virginity just to have a BLACKBERRY phone.”
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He further advised people to place value only on things that have true worth and not material things that go out of vogue.
“You can imagine how it trended so much a movie was named after it…BlackBerry Babes…..Remember ..Pinging girls…so who is using the word PING now.? All these were the language of blackberry phone users and now no one will even buy it for free…yes for free,” he added.
“Now some have stolen to buy the latest Rolls Royce and end up in an American cage. Even their friends are denying them and have refused to accept free visas to America. What a life That latest thing you have now will soon be the oldest thing. Yes, time says so.”
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“In 1999 a friend of mine once said and I quote… “you see this latest cars people are driving now, it will be the old model of my cars”…end of quote. I pondered over those words for many years until time told me what they meant. Whatever you do today keep your hands clean… if it’s not for Jesus, it’s not worth dying for.”
Sylvester Madu is a Nigerian actor, producer, screenwriter and model. The graduate of the University of Maiduguri launched his acting career in 1998 and his most prominent for his bodyguard or bad guy roles.
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