Live!

Truth be told, greatness is not only birthed but also made. While some of us are privileged to have it all in all: born with a silver spoon, a happy family, a healthy body, bundles of talents and gifts and a fulfilled life; some others have to fight and struggle hard to have any of the above listed pleasures of life. I do not condemn those that have it all, nor pity those that struggle of it. It is just the way of life. If Nelson Mandela had been born in the United States, or had taken a different path, we would not have a black South African President or if Steve Jobs instead choose to finish school and pursue a well paying job as his parents desired him to, Apple Computers would only have been a figment of our imagination. Oftentimes in life, we have to pursue what we want for ourselves, not what the people around that may mean us well, want us to do instead. This life is short and fleeting and after all has been said and done, after the parents have passed away, after the marriage has occurred, after the job becomes annoying and boring…it is you that remains there, with your problem, not them. They carry on with their own lives and you continue to live in their shadow. There comes a time in the life of every man where he has to make a decision: would he sit back and do all that he is told to do, or would he stand and say no to what does not do him any much good?
Friend, make a decision right now, to do what is deem fitting and to stick with that course of action always, regardless of the circumstances that may follow suit.

Oluwatobi O. Gbemisola
@TobiGbemisola