Hey guys! Being awhile here. I took some weeks off because of you. Trust me throughout these weeks you are always in the most cherished place of my heart. Nevertheless, I am back here and better. Let me quickly share with you what happened to me on my way home yesterday.
On my way home yesterday evening, while sitting inside BRT, there was this young boy sitting directly opposite me. He was eating peanut but he did in an annoying way.
You know the way kids eat delicious foods such that they don't want it to finish. If it's possible they'd prefer to eat it forever because it's sweet. Yes, that's exactly what happened.
At last, the boy finished the peanut and nothing was left. I felt like telling him he shouldn't have finished it, but I control my anger. After all, his eating is not my eating, let me just keep quiet.
How is it that people while enjoying the good things of life, they want it to be forever? They want the money to start coming in millions. And they want to go to any length to be sure the flow of such good things never cease.
For instance, take a cue from politicians, they always want to go for the second term, they are governors after that, they want to be senators, they just want to die there sha.
Don't mind me o, me too Kuku like an endless flow of good things. If it's money, I need it more than you can ever imagine. Is it fame? I also want my name to be featured for good in Forbes magazine. I want to be interviewed on CNN and Al Jazeera.
But come to think of it, there's nothing permanent in this life. Money, fame, position, influence or affluence, name it, they are not permanent.
They are just to be enjoyed for a moment. If you like to try to hold onto them forever, if they don't leave you, you'll eventually leave them. Shikena.
If you build a mansion, the day you die the mansion is no longer yours. If you are MD/CEO, if you don't want to be tired and retire, one-day death or sickness will surely give you a sack letter.
Remember, one president from one country in Africa who never wanted to leave office, but he was eventually chased out of office.
Does this mean we should not desire good things in life?
Honestly, there's nothing wrong with it. But one lesson I want you to learn here is how you use those things. You must never let them get control over you such that you start misbehaving. Don't be too greedy. You see, it is greediness that would make a man want to be in power forever.
I have come to realize that some people don't use things, but things actually use them.
Look, I am not forming Mr perfect here; I also want to enjoy the good things of life forever. I want the woman I'll marry to be forever young, I want her beauty to be forever glowing. I also want to be forever young. Now you can see that this trait is common to all humans.
But, we must get mature and be disciplined such that we'll know how to handle our desires and ambitions before they handle us. In one of my blog posts in 2017, I talked about the expiry date.
All things in this life have an expiry date. If you are in a good position earning millions monthly, it has an expiry date. People don't complain while enjoying the good things of life, but when they have a slight experience of the opposite, they ask God 'why?'
But the good news is that no matter the situation everything in life has an expiry date. Fat bank accounts, booming business, suffering, sickness, sorrow, etc. all have an expiry date.
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Remember, keep being you and keep being true. Till we meet again.
© OdunayoSamuel, 2019.
CAKE | FOREVER | DELICIOUS |AMBITIONS | EXPIRY DATE | PEANUT |
On my way home yesterday evening, while sitting inside BRT, there was this young boy sitting directly opposite me. He was eating peanut but he did in an annoying way.
You know the way kids eat delicious foods such that they don't want it to finish. If it's possible they'd prefer to eat it forever because it's sweet. Yes, that's exactly what happened.
At last, the boy finished the peanut and nothing was left. I felt like telling him he shouldn't have finished it, but I control my anger. After all, his eating is not my eating, let me just keep quiet.
How is it that people while enjoying the good things of life, they want it to be forever? They want the money to start coming in millions. And they want to go to any length to be sure the flow of such good things never cease.
For instance, take a cue from politicians, they always want to go for the second term, they are governors after that, they want to be senators, they just want to die there sha.
Don't mind me o, me too Kuku like an endless flow of good things. If it's money, I need it more than you can ever imagine. Is it fame? I also want my name to be featured for good in Forbes magazine. I want to be interviewed on CNN and Al Jazeera.
But come to think of it, there's nothing permanent in this life. Money, fame, position, influence or affluence, name it, they are not permanent.
They are just to be enjoyed for a moment. If you like to try to hold onto them forever, if they don't leave you, you'll eventually leave them. Shikena.
If you build a mansion, the day you die the mansion is no longer yours. If you are MD/CEO, if you don't want to be tired and retire, one-day death or sickness will surely give you a sack letter.
Remember, one president from one country in Africa who never wanted to leave office, but he was eventually chased out of office.
Does this mean we should not desire good things in life?
Honestly, there's nothing wrong with it. But one lesson I want you to learn here is how you use those things. You must never let them get control over you such that you start misbehaving. Don't be too greedy. You see, it is greediness that would make a man want to be in power forever.
I have come to realize that some people don't use things, but things actually use them.
Look, I am not forming Mr perfect here; I also want to enjoy the good things of life forever. I want the woman I'll marry to be forever young, I want her beauty to be forever glowing. I also want to be forever young. Now you can see that this trait is common to all humans.
But, we must get mature and be disciplined such that we'll know how to handle our desires and ambitions before they handle us. In one of my blog posts in 2017, I talked about the expiry date.
All things in this life have an expiry date. If you are in a good position earning millions monthly, it has an expiry date. People don't complain while enjoying the good things of life, but when they have a slight experience of the opposite, they ask God 'why?'
But the good news is that no matter the situation everything in life has an expiry date. Fat bank accounts, booming business, suffering, sickness, sorrow, etc. all have an expiry date.
******************************************
Remember, keep being you and keep being true. Till we meet again.
© OdunayoSamuel, 2019.
CAKE | FOREVER | DELICIOUS |AMBITIONS | EXPIRY DATE | PEANUT |
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