The palm tree is a tall standing tree. The palm tree is a cash crop of much importance. Its crown, where most of its goodies are found, is high up off the ground. Its branches are used for making brooms, its nuts are used for preparing palm nut soup, and for making palm oil, palm kernel oil, and several other products. That is why many risk climbing the palm tree to its top.
To get to the top of the palm tree where you can harvest the palm nuts and the branches, there is no other option order than you climbing the palm tree. In climbing the palm tree you start right from the ground and little by little you climb to the top using all your limbs, all hands and feet.
Actually, climbing a palm tree is no easy task for the palm tree has a relatively big rough trunk that impedes climbing. It takes even a skilled climber the application of wisdom to climb a palm tree lest he will get hurt.
The top or the crown of a palm tree can be likened to prosperity. In the quest to become wealthy, rich, or prosperous, hard work is the only approved means to get there. Those other means that promise shortcuts to prosperity also promise shortcuts to abject poverty, indebtedness, disease, and premature and sudden death.
In certain parts of the world, blood money is so prevalent. The practice is all about kidnapping innocent people, both adult and young, killing them, and taking their blood or certain parts of their bodies for money rituals. This practice once it becomes prevalent in the community or region strikes fear and panic into the hearts of the people. The end thereof is very pathetic for the perpetrators.
Others see politics as a shortcut to prosperity. To this end, many Africans, both young and old, cease to be innovative and hardworking. Rather, they rally hard behind political parties with the hope that once they come into power, they will have their way to prosperity. The high level of corruption in government is, for the most part, connected to this notion of getting rich quickly and easily through politics.
Many girls nowadays are doing Only Fans, stripping on webcam, posting nudes, and creating all manner of profane content for subscribers in order to make money. All these are shortcuts to make money and the end thereof is not nice.
Drug trafficking, child trafficking, etc are all shortcut opportunities to become rich quickly without hard work.
