My Wish...
My Wish
Hey guys, it’s so cool to wake up to the reality of
the fact that today marks yet another year in my life! Happy birth day to M.E.!
Ok, ok, on this special day of mine, I wanna share a
piece I wrote some years ago. It’s about my ‘Wish List’, it’s obvious how we
want so many things in life and wish to be this and that….
The whole idea of
this write-up came up as a result of my childhood desires to have or become too
many things which eventually contributed to my confused state of existence at a
time ‘t’ in my life. And I believe so many people are still in this gap. But
then, If wishes were horses…Enjoy!
I wish am not born in a humble
background, I won’t be this humble. I’d have live life luxuriously.
I wish I have enough access to money and
other needed resources to accomplish my goals
I wish I have a car or an automobile to
make my journey fun and faster (it’s on the way…)
I wish am a jack of all trades but
then I’ll be a master of nonsense
I wish I never work for anyone, I
just run my own successful business (thank God I now run my own company)
I wish I can find myself in Canada;
it will make my life easier. Life is frustrating down here
I wish to have everything I want
lacking nothing, I’ll eat what I like and order for anything I want
I wish I was born a girl child; it
will reduce the demand of family responsibility and dependence
I wish am a young lady, unlike other
girls I’ll keep my virginity till that night of my wedding
I wish am wealthy and rich, I’ll
reach out more to the unreached in my community
I wish I possess some form of witchcraft;
I will fly without an aircraft
I wish am a scientist/an inventor,
I’ll invent the first automobile machinery with no fueling and lubricant
I wish am an animal, I won’t be
scared of eternity or the event of life after death
I wish am a super duper star or
celebrity, I’ll feel on top of the world
I wish am Mr. Time, I’ll wait for people regardless of their
procrastination
I wish am younger, I’d love to be a
footballer
I wish am taller, I’ll pursue a professional
carrier in basketball
I wish I can be forever young; life
in adulthood is dreary and fragile
I wish I had all the time in the
world to amend my wrongs and minimize my regrets
I wish am a policeman, I won’t
collect bribe rather I’ll be the people’s friend
I wish am a politician, I won’t join
them in playing the dirty game all in the name of politicking
I wish am Mr. President, I’ll
formulate economic policies that will tackle the problem of unemployment,
electricity, insecurity, bad roads, infrastructure, education, corruption,
stagnancy and inflation amongst others
I wish am a business tycoon or an
industrialist, I’d build more businesses to absorb more unemployed youths in
the labour market
I wish am a landlord or an estate
owner, my house or estate rent will be cheaper with no agreement and commission
surcharges
I wish am a king, I’ll rule my people
with wisdom,unbiasedness, dignity and honour
I wish am a motivational/public
speaker, my words will inspire change in peoples’ lives
I wish am a pastor, I’ll preach
kingdom principles with Biblical exposition
I wish am a leader of some sort, I’ll
simply lead by example by practicing what I preach
I wish am the messiah, I’d love to
lay down my life to save the world from eternal destruction
I wish am a community leader; I will
provide the basic social amenities needed for the growth and the advancement of
the community
I wish am a parent, I’ll mentor and
coach my children the right way they should go with discipline and moral
principles and practice
I wish am an artisan, I won’t exploit
my customers and/or clients with dishonesty
I wish am a musician, I’ll sing
inspirational and soul lifting songs
I wish am a prolific writer, I’ll
write about purpose and the discovery of who we are and what God has called us
to be
I wish am a teacher, I’ll go out of
my way to teach my students life lessons and also replicate myself in them,
this way I’ll be a part of their success story
I wish am a white man maybe I’ll be
wiser. I do not know what is wrong with being black or is wisdom lacking or
scare among the blacks?
I wish I got my first degree
certificate on time immediately I graduated from the university, by now I’d
probably be gainfully employed in an oil and gas firm without thinking of
running a personal business or plan ‘B’
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My wish is endless. Our wants are
numerous. No doubt, human wants are insatiable. We keep wanting and wanting
more. Like Pepsi, we aren’t satisfied with the state of our existence; we keep
daring for more…
Thank God for the economic principles
of choice making- the art of
selecting among different alternatives, scarcity-
the fact that some things will not be readily available as at the time we need
them, hence shortage, opportunity cost
and the alternative forgone. Some
people at some point have one time or the other wish to be like God in all
form; to be all-knowing, omnipotent, omniscience and omnipresence. They want to
be the same yesterday, today and forever. That’s an infeasible region. You
cannot be all you want to be, you can only be what God has called you to be or
become nothing due to your ignorance and arrogance to nature.
Human being at best will still remain
human, bound to make mistakes, fail and fail again, continue to be perfecting
and never perfect, promise and fail due to their inability to control
circumstance, unable to control time because they exist and are limited by time
itself, and eventually rely on God has his last resort.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Many are hard wishers but not hard
workers. A wish is an excuse in disguise. Wish without will is like hoping
against hope, it’s like a mission with no destination. So let’s stop wishing
and start working. Instead of wishing what you are not, start doing what you
wish. Start from where you are with the available resources at your disposal.
This way you will accomplish that which you wish.
The simplicity of life is not in our
wishes but in what we exact our energies upon—and that is where passion come
to play. In fact, our wishes especially when it’s above our head make our life
more complex, confusing and frustrating. This has lead to the life of the rat
race, a life always in the quest to compete with the Jones and Joneses and also
to surpass them like the relative income
hypothesis theory propounded by James Duesenbury, an economist in his time.
In this context, wishes are like
dreams and aspirations. But it suffix to state here that dream is not enough,
we must dare, we must do. “Keep dreaming
until your dreams come true”, that’s what motivational speakers thought us.
Where is the place of action? If you dream too much hoping for a change, it
will become a nightmare. Instead of getting somewhere and making a head way,
you may realize you are just moving in circles, at about the same spot. Isn’t
that frustrating?
It’s time to wake up from your
slumber and learn from the ants, consider her ways and be wise. As little as
they are they are fully awake to responsibility with little or no supervision.
Apart from the fact that the ants are hard workers, they plan their seasons.
Imagine, they provide their own meet in summer and gather their food in
harvest. They don’t wait or wish for people to be telling them what to do at
all times, the ants are simply good organizers with team spirit.
Learn from the ants. Be awake to
reality and start doing something that is in consonant with your dream or
life-long wishes. You’ve stayed too long on this Mount Everest of wishing.
Wish-washy objectives won’t get you anywhere; you will only be like the rocking
chair at the barber’s shop moving round-about on the same spot.
At times the things we wished for are
not real, unchangeable, impractical, intangible or absolute nonsense. Hence,
attaining them is practically impossible. For example;
I wish I was born a girl child; it will reduce the demand of family
responsibility and dependence
I wish am an animal, I won’t be scared of eternity or the event of life
after death
I wish am Mr. Time, I’ll wait for
people regardless of their procrastination
I wish I can be forever young; life in adulthood is dreary and fragile,
unexciting and boring
I wish am a white man maybe I’ll be wiser…
Regrettably, many a people keep
wishing and hoping in the same direction like the example above till they eventually
die. That’s suicide. To me, that’s being cruel to oneself! People like that
when they get to heaven, they will here statements like “welcome my foolish and ignorant maybe somehow faithful servant…”
You know…Lol
I’m not against the belief that your
wishes can’t work or the principle of faith to that effect. Capital NO! I
submit you work your wish, but only those wishes that will work! You’ve got to
move from being an idealist to a realist or better still a pragmatist.
Duty Determines Destiny.
Duty determines destiny not dreams.
You can dream of becoming great in life but first you must start small and
that’s a duty—I call it responsibility. One of my role models, Olakunle
Soriyan, thought revolutionist, leader and human capital consultant once said
and I quote “sincerity is not a factor of production; responsibility is the name
of the game”. As sincerity is to dreams, so is responsibility to duty in this
context. If you are privileged to be youthful then you must be dutiful, that is
a proof that you’re useful. Your responsibility is your ability to response
(awake) to the issues or opportunities in your life. Until you are fully aware,
you are going nowhere.
The knowledge of what to do and when
to do it is what put you at the edge of your contemporaries. Your daily routine
is to a larger extent a pointer to the details of the larger pictures of your
tomorrow.
Dreamers rule the world! Fine.
Accepted. But all dreamers in this context are doers. The likes of Nelson
Mandela, Smith Wigglesworth, Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikwe, Mother Theresa,
Abraham Lincoln, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Galileo Galileo, Martin
Luther King Jnr, Mahatma Gandhi, Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN, and a host of
others are not just dreamers. They are doers, people whose contribution to a
cause cannot be overemphasized; people who alter the cause of human existence,
people who are ready to die for what they believe, people who believe in change
and are ready to effect it… and now their names are engraved in the sands of
time. They are world changers, they are record breakers, they are trail
blazers, and these are dreamers in the real sense of it.
Your legacy is not in your dreams but
in what you have done. It is in your contribution to either or not the
orderliness, tranquility and balance of your society. And that is what
determines posterity. If truly you want to be a dreamer or a wisher that the
world at large will reckon with, then you must do something or work out
something that will outlive you, contribute your quote positively to the nation building that even after you are long gone
your works will forever live on.
“I wish I can be a star”, “Oh, how I
wish… I wish…” you are already a star. Stop wishing; start activating it by
doing something. Create or innovate something today, start that project today,
start writing that book or journal, start that business, make that call,
register for that course, sit for that exam. What ever is not started cannot be
finished. Don’t wait to have all the experience or the know-how before
kick-starting, just start any how, in the process you’ll be amazed how many
experience you’d have gathered.The question is; what are you known for? It is
what you know that will make you known. You are known for what you do, not what
you dream about or wish.
You are not a record breaker until
you do something to break record. You have in you what it takes to make the
world a better place. Only you can. It’s your unique selling point; it’s your
competitive advantage, it’s your originality. If you can’t get the message or
maybe it’s still confusing you then you need to ask your creator to show you.
No one knows the creature (you) more than the creator (God). Ask Him to for
divine direction.
The future is bright!
I am M.E. (Mister Exponent)
Primus inter pares…first amongst equals
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