It is no news that over 70% of Nigeria’s population are youths, i.e below the age of 40.
By such analysis, it is clear that most of our youths have very little or nothing to live on daily; this is what poverty in a nation truly means – when the youths [her productive age] are poor! Why won’t they be restive? Why won’t there be armed robbery, prostitution and the likes?
A little child from an underprivileged home once was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The young chap with hunger and frustration literally gushing out of his eyes angrily answered: “How will I grow up when I have no food to eat today... who is talking about growing up now...?”
When there is no food on the table, how can there be hope? With the apparent frustration in the land, dreams are aborted even before they are birthed.
By some means, man can live without water or food for some long period of time and yet he will still be alive [ask those people who fast and pray for a full month – Jesus Christ did it]. But, I have equally discovered that the easiest thing that put an end to a man’s life is HOPELESSNESS. A man without hope will not live another second; he sees nothing to look forward to or live for. Judas Iscariot killed himself because of hopelessness; his hope had been chattered!
Suicide and the likes are proofs of hopelessness. Man’s greatest need is HOPE.
But, what do you do in the face of several HOPE killers? Hunger, corruption, mediocrity, crime and many more? What do you make of your life when it seems as though everything around you seems to be after your dream, joy, happiness and hope? What do you do when you don’t know what to do?
Let’s approach this with a human face.
I want to start by saying, we were all created as individuals. The holy book says: “male and female created HE them...” Notice the singularity! So, you owe yourself this one thing: Fight for your life!
Convince yourself, by yourself, that you must live a mark. Decide on the mark you intend leaving at the end of your death. This will propel you to have a DREAM. Your dreams will then give you ideas. Your ideas will thus force you to work. Ideas are not meant to be buried in your thoughts, they are meant to be manifested on ground.
In the face of all these, you must be aware of the fact that this world is like a circle and there is a portion in this circle you were created to fill – RECOGNIZE and MANIFEST YOUR RELEVANCE.
You matter! Make a conscious effort to be ‘Unputdownable’. A conscious step! Don’t allow the mediocrity in society define your self-worth. Refuse to live like a rat.
I want to reiterate, like I did say in an earlier post, that “living your life productively well is your responsibility, and it is God’s responsibility to reward you for fulfilling your responsibility.”
Refuse to allow folks who have failed in their own endeavours succeed in making you fail in yours. A companion of success will be successful... As such, define your crowd.
In all these, you must know that ‘society’ will consciously and unconsciously fight your dreams and force you to lose your zest for life. Like I always tell my folks, increase the price of your dream, such that no challenge, bad news or depression will be able to afford it. You deserve to be a success, let nobody and nothing spoil that reality.
All these are conscious steps you must take to fight the apparent mediocrity and poverty in our land. Attacking your lack! A man who has a dream and expresses it can never be poor. The problem with our young people today is that most of them don’t have dreams of the future [pictures of where they are taking their lives to], and the few who have do nothing about making it a reality.
When you do have dreams, make it work! A dream without works is poverty defined!
Don’t wait for people to come help you make it work. Be responsible for yourself!
Don’t wait for people to come help you make it work. Be responsible for yourself!
Poverty and all forms of lack are personal choices, they don’t jump on us; in one way or the other, we choose our circumstances. If you don’t want to be caught in or by the webs of lack, do something about it. Your choice today will create your chance [opportunity, prospect and ability] of tomorrow.
Complaining never made anyone rich or famous, it won’t start with you. Quite the complaining and be challenged by the mediocrity in our land to live a life that would count – a relevant life.
Let your dream give you hope for living and let your speech and actions reflect the enviable tomorrow you are headed for.
I want to see you at the top, where you truly belong!
You must happen!
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