Most people chose the wrong Orí in heaven and as a result, they are doomed to failure on earth. But since human beings do not naturally like to accept failure, they engage in an endless and fruitless struggle to achieve the impossible, to improve their chosen bad destiny.

Bí ó bá «e pé gbogbo orí gbogbo ní í sun pósí,
Ìrókò gbogbo Ibá ti tán n’ígbó.
A díá fún igba ÷ni,
Tí ñt’ìkölé örun bö wá sí t’ayé
Bí ó bá «e pé gbogbo orí gbogbo ní í sun pósí,
Ìrókò gbogbo ìbá ti tán n’ígbó.
A díá fún Òwèrè,
Tí ñt’Ìkölé örun bö wá sí t’ayé.
Òwèrè là ñjà,
Gbobgoo wa.
Òwèrè là ñjà.
¿ni t’ó yan’rí rere kò wôpö
Òwèrè là ñjà,
Gbobgoo wa.
Òwèrè là ñjà.

If all men were destined to be buried in coffins,
All Ìrókò trees would have been exhausted in the forest.
Ifá divination was performed for two hundred men
Who were coming from heaven to earth.
If all men were destined to be buried with coffins,
All Ìrókò trees would have been exhausted in the forest.
Ifá divination was also performed for Struggle
Who was coming from heaven to earth.
We are only struggling.
All of us.
We are only struggling.
Those who chose good destines are not many.
We are only struggling.
All of us.
We are only struggling. eeeee

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