What's Your Take From Life?

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I get asked a lot what my take is about life but what most people don't understand is that life is many things. We see differently, we feel differently, we think differently, we view differently too. There is no right or wrong about it because most things are dependent on how life presents itself to us and how we are able to make the best of what life gives to us.

Life is about choices and whatever choice you make you have to live with it. I read a post of my good friend on Hive Blog and he shared the stories of the Boateng brothers. One of them didn't make it into professional football while the other two made it. One represents Ghana National team; Kevin-Prince Boateng while the other one; Jerome Boateng represents the German team.

He spoke about how Kevin-Prince was labelled as the bad guy due to his personality and also how he was raised alone by his mother. Jerome is from a different mother but enjoyed the love of his father. Kevin-Prince was raised in a local area in Germany while Jerome with the father that abandoned the others and his mother lived in a posh area. Despite the bad boy tag given to Kevin and Jerome which you would expect to be of good reputation based on how he grew up, Jerome was the one charged for domestic violence but Kevin-Prince whom everyone expected the worst of, seem to live his life without listening to the noises around him.

One thing I have learnt in life is that no matter where you come from or what your background is, you are responsible for how you turn out. Your background might have an influence on you and rightly so, but it doesn't have to determine how you will end up. Most people make excuses for their behaviour rather than own up to their mistakes. They blame everyone else but they seem to always omit themselves in the equation. They would give you a thousand and one reasons why they are who they are because it is easier to blame others so we can take the focus off our inability to take charge of our lives.

Most people procrastinate and yet they expect to see results. They don't act in time but they act how they deem fit. Someone once said; "Those who blame Africans for lateness are being unfair. Why should a man obey the watch he bought with his hard-earned sweat!". I know it was a joke but most people live by this principle. They want things to work for them but they keep pushing what needed to be done.

It's okay to ease up a bit when you feel you are burning out but not at the expense of things that determines a lot about your life. A very good and sweet friend of mine told me yesterday that I work too hard but trust me, I feel I don't even work hard enough. It's not as if I work so hard, it's just that I know when not to push what's important away. It's all about prioritizing what's important to the goals you have in mind.

A lot of people have procrastinated which has affected their self-confidence. They are not brave or bold enough to take anything on and they just tend to delay it for later which would never come. It is always easier to push things aside than to take things on. It has shattered a lot of people's self-esteem because they feel they can never get anything done.

Life is about seizing the moment and there is a thin line between success and failure and that's in the timing. When opportunity meets you prepared, there is no way you won't succeed and even your "village people" (as we call it here in Nigeria. It means those who don't want others to succeed) can do nothing about it.

We seem to focus on what's not important at the expense of what's important and we want to achieve the same results as those who understand the place of priority.

Life can be many things to us and there is no stage in life that we won't learn unless we are not open to it. A lot of people have allowed situations of life to weigh them down. They blame the situations of life for everything they are going through; "If only the government gave me that grant", "If only my uncle helped me", "If only my dad didn't force me to go to the University and he allowed me to pursue my football career", "I wish that car was given to me", "I wish I married that lady instead" and so on. We focus too much on the things we have no control over anymore while wasting precious moments away.

There is no way you can go back to make a brand new start but you can decide to make a happy ending. It's all in the power of choice you are willing to make. No one can make it for you. No one can force success on you if you have no capacity to handle it. Others might inspire you but you have to still walk the length. No one can help you to the extent you can help yourself. What's my take on life, you asked? Seize every moment and make the most of it.

Thank you for your time.

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