We are all heading towards a destination; a destination that had been predestined before time. We have been given equipments to help us journey through life. But this equipments vary in the hands of their carriers. One might be given a large boat to sail through swampy and oceanic parts of life, but another, maybe no boat at all. He who has a large boat according to life's program is expected to help those who have none, unfortunately, greed and selfishness live inside of us. So most times, you will see a few men amongst millions out there sailing across the stormy seas and oceans alone leaving behind so many people whom they are meant to help. So these people, having no other option, have to try swimming across all by their effort. Needless to say here that most of them drown in the process. The few who made it will have a notion that life is a very hard and tough ground.
Actually, life is a very tough ground, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to the ground if you let it. Improvision is always allowed in life, and the more flexible one is, the better and easier his journey through life becomes.
Inasmuch as life has its own loads exerted on us, we still bring upon ourselves unnecessary loads that weigh us down the more. We even go as far as being lazy, procastinate, hate, poke our nose into other people's affair, backbite, gossip, etc. Try running as fast as you can with a bag of cement on your head and lets see how far you can run with that. Can a bird fly carrying a load much heavier than it? Even if it claims to be strong, it won't fly to its maximum height. So come on, let them go. They worth nothing. Life has enough load for us to bear. Those things only exist to haunt down our progression,and make us stagnant and fruitless.
I once worked with an engineering firm which rented an apartment for staff like me who lived miles away from the office. We were on our way back to the rented apartment from the office when the taxi we boarded broke down. After spending abour thirty minutes trying to fix his car, the driver was getting more confused. Some of us started losing our patience. And when almost all of us were done losing ours, the driver had no choice than to flag down any of his colleagues who could be of help. But unfortunately, all of them had no empty seat in their taxi. One of us who was conversant with the road said boldly that it would be difficult to get cab in that long lonely road, and besides it was around 6pm, most drivers would think it was a prank to get them robbed. He advised us to collect a little refund from the driver and trek it back home. Some of us negated his idea on the basis that the apartment wasn't close by. He collected his refund, so did I, and off we went.
P.S: That guy and I embraced our fate and faced it.
We cracked jokes, laughed and played on our way. Sooner than we knew it, we were home. After about two hours, the other guys came back home one after the other, some were murmuring as they entered their rooms; they trekked home eventually.
One problem with those guys was that they decided wrongly, and actually got to their destination hour later.
I know people who dissappointed me after promising to make life easier for me, some debtors, haters, competitors etc. One thing I can never do is to be angry at them. Why should I be when life has on me enough loads to bear. Why punish, enslave and delay my movement with extra loads? I have simply learnt to keep burning like fire despite several attempts by fire fighters to quench me.
This life is no more a bed of roses like it was programmed to be. I saw an inscription on a bus, "cry your own cry." Contextually, it means everyone should deal with his/her fate, face your giant all by yourself. And when you get stung, shed a tear, it is allowed, but do not dwell on that mountain for long. Always learn to pick yourself up, fix yourself up, and push on. That is life.
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