THERE IS “A LOT” ABOUT LIFE
You may be familiar with the phrase “I’ve been through a lot,” and perhaps you have used it one time or the other to define the challenge you had passed or are passing through. Whether one is having a great time or going through difficult times, there is still that lot that you are getting through or have gone through. It seems “a lot” never ends and there won’t be a better phrase to describe life’s challenges however good or bad. One will have to go through a lot whether he is going up or down the society cadre. This lot may be the stri…
LET’S SWEEP OUR WORLD OF CHALLENGES
In sub-Saharan African where brooms are still part of everyday life, it is common place to find brooms being used as cleaning facilities. It’s such a common tool that one would hardly find its absence in an African home. The broom though is more than a cleaning facility, it is a life teacher. Life is filled with challenges which come voluntarily or involuntarily into a person’s life. The greatest joy any man would like to have is to live a life free from challenges. Consider these challenges as dirt. Dirt finds itself into an area uncons…
HOW ABOUT BUILDING YOUR BUILDING?
When I was little, I had often marveled at the high risings that dotted my city’s landscape. I was opportune to climb to the top of a fifteen storey building once along with my schoolmates. It was tiring since we made use of the stairs. That time, we wondered at how those high rise buildings were built and day dreamed of someday owning such buildings. As I grew and got involved with developing buildings, I understood the many intricacies that characterized getting a building of any nature on the ground. Looking through life as a grown man,…
LET’S HIT THE AIRWAVES
Thank God for technological advancement. If you are born in this age, understanding the difference between then (the days of our ancestors) and now could be so great a challenge. That time, you had no right to your own entertainment except you were king and news was carried by one ragged man who was second to the king only in attracting attention. If you missed the news, you either had to go ask your neighbor or wait for the gossips that followed the news. You dare not miss festivals, else you missed a chance too few to listen to good musi…
YOU NEED YOUR DOSE OF LAUGHTER
The average everyday life is characterized by its series of troubles. Life is absolutely complicated and one may not comprehend the reasons why such complications occur. This complication leaves us in sadness querying why unpremeditated actions should take place in the face of harrowing life experiences. We want to laugh so long through life even in the face of its challenges. It seems a big huddle though because of the seemingly uphill difference that characterizes the challenging life and a laughing smiling life. There always seems tha…
LETTING GO MAY JUST BE ALL YOU NEED
Listening to the lyrics that comes through the speakers of my hi-fi system could be tough especially with the kind of songs that pour from them. In spite of this, I listened to one brother who managed to help me with some message, “just let go.” Over the few years I have lived on earth, my human nature has being at loggerheads with the materialistic desires that characterizes earth. The desire to have and hold on to everything the world offers has being so strong that I had struggled to let go some things sometimes. In the face of this…
YOUR CHANGE MAY JUST BE A SECONDS AWAY!
Life’s dark phases sometimes appear so long, that it seems an impossibility that great times will arrive. The anticipation that characterizes the waiting period may be huge but this often fails to guarantee the kind of life that the common hustling man on the street wants to have. The assurance of a better future for some is only generations away that the picture they very much desire to live in is a far cry from reality. In the face of this myopic viewed belief is one truth; that it only takes a second for change to happen. A graduate f…
IT’S YOUR TIME TO CELEBRATE
I stopped over to have a chat with an acquaintance on Christmas day. He sat on a ramshackle seat in a thatched drinking hut, having a sip off his alcohol bottle with a cigarette on his hands. He spoke with the characteristic demeanor of drunks however he had some good words to say. I am very happy to see the end of another year. I may not have all I have wanted to have with all the disappointments of the past few months, however I am alive and that’s important. It calls for celebration, he concluded. I personally felt moody over events in …
JUST A LITTLE BREAK CAN MAKE SO MUCH DIFFERENCE
There’s this attribute I noticed among my students as a teacher in a secondary school some years back. I remember also having this attribute as a student. The students often anticipated break time. If I dared stole into the break time, my students would scream and move for an adjournment of the class. They valued break time as it allowed them time away from serious work to relax, refresh, and have fun with their friends. For the more serious ones, it was time to find solace in the library or challenge other gifted talented friends to acade…
DRINK FROM LIFE'S WELL
I will hark back to several years ago when pipe born water was a novelty. For us who grew up in the countryside, we had to make do with the flowing streams about two kilometers away from our homes. For the luckier city chaps like me, getting water was a game. We had to search the neighborhood for a lucky host, the only person who had a Well. This was often distance away but we managed to make it fun walking as a crowd with all the children and our pet dogs. We considered the owner of the well a god and we had to beg sometimes to have this …
IS THERE SPACE AT THE TOP?
I was woken quiet early one morning by the sound of a voice on a megaphone. The speaker, a preacher, was publicizing his special program tagged “ space at the top .” While I disliked the disturbance of my sleep that came through the megaphone, the program’s tag got me thinking. Space at the top? How about that? The preacher assured that the top was for everyone and he was going to put his congregation through making a place for themselves at the top. As a tinker, I have attended a good number of success seminars, read a couple of books a…
WHAT IS LIFE ALL ABOUT?
In my early teens, my father often disciplined me especially when I broke a law at home, or school or came back home with a bad school result sheet. I had thought my dad was the only father who acted that way but I observed that all the dads of the boys around my age that time acted same. One statement never left their lips: look boy, I am doing this so that you can have food on your table tomorrow. They looked stern while they made this statement. I have taken my time to observe too that it seems our dads were right. All our trouble in …
IGNORE YOUR IGNORANCE
As a student of life, I have come to full knowledge that it is absolutely impossible to know all that is to be known in life. I’ve seen that I keep knowing and there seems no limit to what I can know provided that I am ready to know. What this means is that there is some other person who manages to always know more than I know ad-infinitum. I therefore will be forever ignorant no matter how much I know. The more we know, the more ignorant we become. Knowledge exposes us to too many questions unanswered and one answered question isn’t rea…
HOW TO GET ON THE NEXT STAGE OF YOUR LIFE
You may remember some time ago when you had a brawl with a relative, friend or acquaintance and you told him that you deserved more than what he was offering, that its only a matter of time before you get the right treatment you think you deserve. You assured him that you would be higher than his treatment. Everyone seems to have this experience. No one loves to remain stagnant. Our brains are wired with the mentality of change however high up there we seem to have arrived. We think and assume there is a natural higher point that has t…
HERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT LIFE YOU CAN LEARN FROM THE HITMAN
We grew up in the early days of the television service when stations opened between 4 pm and 12 pm every weekday. Those years were not like now that we have variety to nourish our eyes. As kids, we were familiar with Robocop, commando, superman etc. For those of us who had the dignified video cassette player, which are now resting in peace, we were fortunate to watch action movies that starred acts such as James bond 007, Jet li, Adolf Schwatzneiger, Van Damme and their likes. Thank goodness, advancement in technology and the DVD age …
5 UNCOMPLICATED STEPS TO BECOMING GREAT
You may be familiar with the beverage whose television advert carries the punch line “there is a drop of greatness in every man.” I was a teenager at the time when Guinness released the advert that carried this captivating message. It didn’t mean much to me then until during a Christian youth gathering I was opportune to be part. The teacher spoke about the possibilities invested in everyone, he talked about our television habits encouraging us to imbibe positive lessons from the things we watch making reference to the Guinness advert and it…
GOLD SHOULD BE YOUR GOAL!
The Olympics is a very important game festival worldwide in which every team prepares to win. Every country aims towards a large gold hurl. Participating athletes understand the magnitude of the occasion. They prepare so hard in anticipation of the event. Their goal is gold.The huge task of the competition often takes the athletes months of preparation, undertaking exercises, training and eating right. The reason is that they have to be fit. What’s your competition? You have a competition in life that you are having to challenge. The has…
WHEN IS YOUR TIME FOR CHANGE ? NOW OR LATER?
You might have heard people talk about waiting patiently for God’s time. Every religion tends to portray God’s time in a future sense. It is common to hear people say “God will do it in his time” or “I’m waiting upon God to help me”. We often neglect the possibilities of “now” and throw our hands up to the future waiting for a supernatural help and remaining in the same position. Even among people of little or no spiritual attributes, there is a strong tendency towards waiting. Everyone tends to look at the future in hope. Our strong all…
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