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 friend from one of the universities had this experience
to share. He had managed to make his way through school with the belief that
once he got off school, it was only a matter of days before he picked up an
appointment with one of the blue chip companies in town. It happened that he
was seeing from the perfect situation if all was well. However, the ideal
situation doesn’t happen always. He was ill-prepared for what would hit him. It
turned out that his desire was only a dream that he had to strive for.
Months passed and it became years and there seemed no
certainty that a door would be opening anytime soon. His situation had moved
from bad to worse that he finally concluded himself unfit to continue with
life. In the face of his uncertainty, fate had something more. God was
certainly around watching. It happened that on one faithful day while he
pondered on his predicament and how he was going to make through another day,
he heard a knock on the door. A letter had just arrived in the hands of the
postman. Unsure what the letter contained, he opened it and inside it was his
appointment letter for immediate appointment with benefits of a car, a well
furnished apartment and a salary in millions. It seemed like a dream, but it
was reality.
The experience above is only one of many stories of change.
Your case may not be job but it may be your quest to climb up your job ladder,
a deadening sickness, a quest for admission into a tertiary institution, a
wayward child, a difficult parent, a quest to survive, a challenging relative,
a physical challenge, a desire to pass an examination, an unpleasing spouse
etc. just a second is all you need to overcome them.
That “second” moment is always around the corner waiting for
the right time. But the time often seems like forever because sometimes we are
too impatient to wait and too patient to act. Our impatience at waiting to have
that moment arrive is because we expect the ideal which naturally is “now”. We
fail to acknowledge too that “now” is relative and it shifts as time flies. We
seem very patient at not taking action leaving ourselves to fate and then hate
the fact that fate isn’t getting us what we want at our perceived ideal time.
No matter how difficult one’s present predicament is, that
special second of change is always around the corner. That second only eludes us
at each time of trying because either it isn’t the right time for it to reveal
itself or we haven’t done enough to merit that change time.
While we wait for that brief future second, the route to that
time begins from each now second. Each second of change counts, when we act as
to expect our change at each second. This expectation is an actionable one.
Are you afraid you will be overwhelmed by your current fears
about that seemingly impossible task? You might have given your best shot and
what you get in return is a chain of losses. Maybe you just have to take one
more second of failing to hit the right time for the overturn of your fate.
Don’t give up.
Whatever it is that troubles you, through your spines down
to your marrow, that has failed to give you rest, you may just be that one
second away from a new story. Is it sickness? Just one second to your healing.
Is it poverty? Just one second to wealth. Is it a crumbling marriage? Just one
second to peace. Is it a strained friendship? Just one second to a reunion.
Don’t give up at pursuing the kind of possibility you want
to see however bad present moment may be, because you never will tell when that
second of change will arrive. Just wait, it’s coming.
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