This post is way overdue

People tend to loosen up a lot when out of their region or comfort zone. Being at the odwira festival for the first time, I met new people in fact a lot of them. Some of them had really noble professions and others were students way back in Accra  and Kumasi but here they put everything aside and made sure they had fun,  after all ' all work and no play makes jack a dull boy'.

They were here to have fun and am pretty sure they did. Odwira is the traditional festival of the Akuapem. It marks another year in the traditional calendar of the akuapems. I heard it was fun so I just decided to go. The essence of travelling a whole distance to Odwira was to have fun and let go. Work and school can be stressful so a little fun or out of the ordinary things to do served as a good way to de-stress  The weather here is superb, its cool even in the afternoons not to talk of dawn , you cant see anything with the fog, when you spoke you can actually see vapour coming from your mouth.  I did a small experiment, I put an empty bucket outside at 10 pm and by 6am it was filled with water and am 100% sure it's the fog. Am not surprised people call the Akuapem area  'little London'.   Dancing,drinking and hanging out with friends isn't a new thing but we could all use a change of environment and do really crazy things you won't usually do.

 I was amazed at what I saw. I actually sat in a corner with a friend and just observed. It was just fun watching so I can imagine  the kind of fun those who were actually dancing had.Sitting down alone was fun, all we actually did was watch people dance. From where we were sat  it was a different music playing, and where they were dancing it was a different song playing but it looked like they were off beat dancing, it was just fun to watch and laugh our hearts out. 

There was this man who was also dressed as a woman, he had the best of dance moves, I won't be shocked to meet him somewhere and he's at his job place. Going to such events always has its perks, I didn't do any dancing or much drinking but just hanging out with friends and getting to look at people and laugh was fun enough.because people actually came for the event it could take up to an hour  or two to use your car to get out of the main town. This show how much fun people can have, everything good has its bad side, because of the crowd people actually got hurt one way or the other. But all in all it was a fun experience.

SUICIDE ISN'T AN OPTION!!!

With the recent occurrence of suicide incidents in the country, especially amongst the youth I decided to investigate the psychology behind it. 

The recent cases all involved students who blamed failure in their exams as the motivation for their  suicide so I decided to find out if IQ played a part in suicide . 

Many online have also speculated that there’s a correlation between high IQs and suicide, as a higher IQ

causes the person deal with complex challenges in life. 

Animals rarely commit suicide. So why do we? Perhaps the cause of our own species suicide is that we are the only creatures aware of our

mortality and the responsibility of our survival. 

A few hundred years ago, life was different. It was simpler. Our sense of ‘individuality’ was way less than it is now. For instance, if you were born into a carpenter family you

had to be a carpenter as well. That’s how it worked out.

But slowly, as our society has evolved, and we’ve been given the

responsibility for our destinies and futures, we are told that we can

become anything we want if we try hard enough. Thus, our lives have

become much more troublesome. Freedom can become a burden.

Freedom of choice places the whole blame and regret of failure on the shoulders of the individual. In the old Indian cast system, for

example, suicides were almost non-existent. An untouchable never aspired to become a Brahman, rather, he accepted his

cast, and his main concern was to find food and shelter. There was no time to worry about depression and suicide.

These days, intelligent people can truly see the magnitude of the scope of possibilities available to them, more than the rest of people around them. This causes them to see through many of the fallacies of society and the meaninglessness of the routine existences and pursuits we all value so dearly. 

Martin Voracek, a researcher at the University of Vienna Medical School makes a claim that may shed some light on the suicides of scientists. His startling theory is that suicide can be positively correlated with intelligence — in other words, the smarter people are, the more likely they are to kill themselves.

To back up his theory, Voracek has taken the controversial tables of national average IQ values published recently by Professor Richard Lynn and his colleague at the University of Ulster, Tatu Vanhanen. But instead of correlating these IQ levels with national GDP per head (as provocatively, Lynn and Vanhanen have), Voracek has compared the various IQ averages with national suicide rates.

The results are, prima facie,impressive: there is a strong correlation between suicide rates and national average IQ in most of the countries surveyed. 

For instance, Jamaica, with a low average IQ of 72, has suicide rates of 0.5 for men and 0.2 for women (all suicide figures are per 100,000 person-years). Albania, with an average IQ of 90, has low suicide rates of 2.9 and 1.7. Germany by contrast, with its average IQ of 102, has suicide rates of 21.8 and 8.3;

Japan, with an average IQ of 105, has suicide rates of 25 and 12.

Wherever you look, and whatever the  culture, the same pattern can be seen: in Azerbaijan, Greece, Kuwait and Chile there are lower average IQ levels and lower suicide rates; in Austria, Korea, Singapore and Norway there are higher average IQ levels and higher suicide rates. One exception is the UK, with a relatively high average

IQ (100) and a relatively low (at least for the West) suicide rate — 11 for men and 3.3 for women.