Destination.
I've always wondered what it'll be like for one who is journeying to a particular place, to divert and move to a completely and totally different destination.
Here it is...
Most times when I'm in a commercial bus heading to a particular place...
...and I see a person highlighting from the bus, I keep wondering if I can also highlight with them, that feeling of telling the bus driver that I'm stopping there, but then...
I have a destination, if I stop at someone else's destination... It's either I pass through the stress of looking for another commercial bus, or I end up getting lost.
Worst still, I might also end up getting late to my own destination.
Before I proceed:
Let's use few seconds of our time to admire my lovely sponsors, you should check them out, and I bet their top-notch articles would lead you to clicking on the "subscribe button"
My amiable sponsors.
What is destination?
...an act of appointing, setting aside for a purpose, or predetermining.
...the place to which someone or something is going or being sent.
You and your best friend might be in the same bus; heading home, and you both were gisting on a very important topic, do tell; does that mean that when your bestfriend gets to her busstop, she'll stay back because of the gist?? Definitely no.
She has a place she's going to and you also have yours.
Just as we have our various destination when we're in a bus or on the road, that's the same way we have our various destination in life.
I'm someone who loves strolling alot, so there was this boyfriend of mine, and by boyfriend; I mean: "a boy as a friend." Whenever i try cajoling him to stroll out with me. There's a question he usually ask.
Him: Stroll with you to where? Where are we strolling to?
And I'll be like...
Me: Nowhere nau, we'll just stroll to that end, come back, stroll to that other end, pass this route and come back.
Him: So we'll just be walking up-and-down, with no destination or direction?...see ehn, if you don't have a specific place we are going to stroll to, then let's just sit on this covet here and talk, when we are through, we'll go home.
From that short dialogue, you'll observe that my boyfriend actually never liked moving round in circles, there should be an exact place we're going to.
Disclaimer: Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying that; strolling around is actually a bad idea, but I'm just trying to use that context to explain the topic for today's blog.
Everyone has different destination in life, we all have what we were created to do.
That I have a twin brother, doesn't mean we are going to work in the same organization, or get married to twins from the same family.
We just need to focus on our own future, not being swayed by the prosperity of others in their own field.
Omo... Ingrid is a multi-billionaire and it's because she's an accountant ooh, ah, let me also study accounting, so that I'll start earning and spending money like her.
When we know our destination, we won't stop at other people's bus-stops.
Most people love doing things because their friends are doing them.
Oh, Biola is in science class, let me join science class too.
Fiona wants to be a footballer, let me also join.
Rachel is my best friend, and she wants to be a chef, let me also learn and be like her...
Stop it please...
Know your destination in life, have a plan, have a goal you're set to achieve, don't do things because your friend is doing it. Do things because it's what you love and have passion for.
Remember this.
...Worst still I might also end up getting late to my own destination.
It simply means that; when you copy the lifestyle of others, instead of doing what you are ordained to do, you might just end up prolonging issues and at the end, you'll still fall back into what you are meant to do, but it might not be as interesting as you; getting to know and do it early enough.
Because your dad is an engineer, doesn't mean you'll be an engineer as well, if you don't have passion for engineering...you might as well never succeed in that line of business.
I know of a girl whose parents wanted her to be a lawyer, she had to study it no matter how much she tried, five years in the University plus all the months of strikes...she finally graduated.
The girl is presently a fashion designer and she's making her cool cash, her parents forced her to study law, and the certificate is presently not of use to the girl, and that's because; being a lawyer was never her destination, she nrver had passion for it.
Don't forget to subscribe to these lovely writers page, if you've not:
Till we meet again in my next article and in yours.
Thanks for reading.
The destination of Taiwo differs from that of kehinde, if they say because came from the same womb and want to move on the lane of life, it might become complicated for them, and one might probably lose.
That's life, a Yoruba adage says: 20 children cannot play for 20years, everybody has different destination, that you are my closest friend doesn't mean we will study the same course, get same employment, it doesn't mean we will end up the same way.
As to that lady whose parents forced to be coming a lawyer but ended paving the way of tailoring, that's what happens most in our part of the world, you will see parents choosing careers for their children without knowing first, the road the children wish to pass through that will lead to their destination.