At the dawn of each day, every society youth hopes that in a near future, he is going to be wealthy. I think it is obvious that when we look at the older generation, we realise that not all hopes actually become reality. Is there any particular reason why some people succeed and others fail? Personally, i’d say it’s an accumulation of more than one reason.
In modern day Nigeria, a young man looks at the rich guy around him and with so much respect and a little envy says “Wow, this guy has really worked hard and achieved so much for himself. I can be like him and i would strive to be better”. Another young man looks at the rich guy despite the fact that they are not of the same generation and feels defeated and in the process, utters words like “He was just lucky. Most of the money he has was gotten from his parents or by dubious means”. Honestly, the latter might be right anyway but would definitely lack something the former has and that is the zeal to succeed.
From my little sojourn on this earth, I can say it is very easy to distinguish between the words that come out of the mouth of a future ‘rich guy’ and the words from a future ‘poor guy’. The future rich guy is a dreamer and speaks with optimism while taking steps to help him achieve his dream while the future poor guy has impractical ideas and speaks with so much pessimism. No matter how well things may be going for him, he says and always expects the worst. The future poor guy counts on luck to help him achieve his dreams. The future rich guy may at the end of the day end up being the one that gets lucky- as most people would term it, but I think I’d just refer to it as providence.
I know a guy who was born into a struggling family and had a strong will to write his own story. He has a mentor in renowned brain surgeon Dr. Ben Carson and wants to be a doctor. At a young age, he recognised his strengths and put it to use in the quest to making his dream become reality someday. Today, he is in medical school, getting his wonderful grades and very soon, he is going to be a medical doctor. This guys major strength is his ability to get anything he puts his eyes on stuck in his memory whether images or texts. Where I am going with this is the importance of recognising our strengths and putting it to good use in achieving our dreams. Believe it or not, every one of us is born with strengths and weaknesses. The future rich guy looks at his strengths and thinks of how to put it to use to enable him be part of the beautiful picture he sees in his dreams while the future poor guy who by reason of his poor thinking has become a natural pessimist, finds it easy to recognise his weaknesses and totally ignores his strengths. He looks at the rich guy and tries to walk in the exact footpaths of the rich guy to enable him become rich also. The result is obvious. He gets stuck along the way and can’t go any further. In our quest for success, it is important to recognise your own strength and put it to good use no matter how silly you or even the people around you might think it is. The truth is if you identify your strength, you realise that you are happy when putting it to use and trust me, there is nothing better than doing what you like and also good at.
The friends we keep also play a big role on our road to success. The future rich guy seeks the company of happy people with strong will just like him while the future poor guy finds himself some frustrated folks that are skilled in finding joy in people’s setbacks and are heart-broken when other people succeed. The future rich guy sees the good and the bad in everyone around him and is not ashamed to learn from anybody. The future poor guy is not interested in learning from those around him and always deceives himself that he is better than everybody despite the fact that deep down inside of him, he knows that some of them are far ahead of him.
Going back to the beginning, as each day draws to an end, some society youths look back at the day and are certain that their hope of being wealthy is gradually becoming reality while some others just look back without any element of certainty and realise they are still where it all started- hoping to be wealthy someday.
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