Monday, October 14, 2019

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE UP

We are humans. Imperfect. We all have dreams to accomplish, but at times, especially when we don't get what we want, we are faced with the urge to give up. That urge is normal. In fact, to consider giving up is so normal.

What's your dream again?

Everyone you have ever seen has a dream to accomplish. And you know what? People get it done everyday. People get to limelight everyday. They accomplish their dreams! And what about you? What's your dream again?

A short story

Years back when I decided to step up my game and go public with my writing skill, I wrote a long prose to be read out in a youth program in my local church. After the final editing, I carefully wrote it down on a clean sheet of paper. I was so excited and impressed with myself to have come up with such an award winning write up. Just then, my elder brother walked into the room. In that satisfied mood, I gave it to him to read. I told him that it was written to be read out in church.

He wasn't impressed at all. The only words of that prose I know he read were the title words before asking of the correlation between my title and the theme of the program.
The question threw me off balance, and for a second or two I felt like a loser. I was dismayed.

He threw the sheet of paper to be carelessly, and finally said "If you don't have any better thing to do on that day, just go and watch people who have better things to do."
That was the statement that broke the camel's back. I grabbed the sheet of paper that was busy dangling in the air that moment and tore it into pieces. I called it quit!
Yes I called it QUIT!

The Effect

I didn't pen anything down for almost, if not more than two years. Those were the darkest times of my life. I cried as a remedy to face my fears when I should have written them down so that they would only exist in my book rather than in my head.

I was dead just like anybody when they stop living

That's what happens when one gives up.

The eye opener

Take a look at everything within the reach of your sight, imagine those ones you can't see at the moment. Remember any invention that would seem highly impossible to you if you were told before it came to existence, like the invention of a large body like a ship to stay afloat on water, heavy metal like the aeroplane to elevate itself against gravity, trains, drones, name them.

How big is your dream compared to these inventions, but they were thought to reality by men like you.
So what's stopping you?
Get up!
You have stayed in that pity state for too long. The world needs to hear of a man call you! 
You are the miracle we pray to God for.

Peace.

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