Your predicament is never an excuse to achieving what you want. Let me tell you a true life story.

It's a warm afternoon from this part of the country where I find myself and for one great thing I remain ever grateful to God for is the fact that I yet enthrone breathe and happily dwelling among the living.

Ones' inability to achieve given ones' predicament or anything near it is and will never be an excuse from achieving what one wants to achieve and in the course of this discuss, I shall let you know how this is possible based on a true life story I witnessed in the locality where I live which I shall tell you in the preceding chapters.

It all started with a man known as Kola and this said Kola of a guy was renowned for being so wealthy as at that time to an extent that hardly would one think of anything which he(Kola) does not have in his collection.

His wealth mostly came from the fact that he was a successful farmer where he had a lot of farm produce which he intended for the market after which he realized much money from the sale of those farm produce that ranges from cocoyam to rice, to beans and many more. His wealth was announced to an extent that almost everyone within the locality where he was found knew him as his wealth made him ever popular.

However, as situation would have it on a very fateful Sunday morning when Kola was resting under his fig tree in his courtyard all alone as he had as usual remained ever defiant to the advises and plights of all those around him to get married and have some responsibilities to cater for, suddenly, a sad news from his fellow kinsmen came immediately to him on the fact that all his farm produce had all being on fire of which its root cause remained very much unknown.

Hearing that, he immediately picked himself up and straight away he went to the scene of the ugly sight and to his uttermost dismay, all his farm produce are on fire and this was happening as at a time when other of his contemporaries farm lands and their produce was on fire but the sad thing is that some of them were still able to to retrieve some of their farm produce apart from Kola who hardly had none to save and as such, he fainted and was rushed to the nearest medical center to him.

The news of his medical issue came filtrating the air and before some of his kinsmen were able to arrange themselves and come to ask after him at the medical center, it then was dawn on them that the said Kola had already disappeared from the hospital bed without any due knowledge of all the hospital's medical staff and at once, the mass search for Kola began and weeks after weeks, Kola was still searched for in virtually every nooks and crannies to no avail and it then got to a point that the search for him slowed down as it was thought with the conclusion that he had died.

In addition to all that, his kinsmen had already started making arrangements for his burial rites given his long overdue absence after an extensive search for him was unfruitful and concluded did he suddenly appear from only God knows where to the surprise of everyone present as most persons taught of him as a ghost.

With that immediacy, he quickly calmed all tensions and stories surrounding his disappearance and death rumors by telling them that he only took for days off to rest especially as he had lost virtually everything he had worked for and he was known for all his years.

With that, he was welcomed in a warm embrace after the confirmation that they hadn't seen his ghost aside his real self and with that, he then called all of them to a round table discussion and then told them exactly all that had transpired that led to all those negative conclusions about him and one of the things that got them shocked was the story he told them about his encounter with a certain lame man in the bush where he had gone to hid himself and with the aim of committing suicide after he felt that he can't recover from everything he had lost from the inferno.

In his story, he narrated how he had escaped from the medical staff and ran into the bush with a long rope in his hand in order to take his own life and as he was about tying the rope against the tree where he had wanted to commit the suicide, did a small branch of the tree fell and landed on the ground and immediately, he heard a sound from the ground saying " the big man climbing the tall tree, pls be careful and never to fall on me cos my parents bore me as a lame and as such, I'm in here waiting hopefully for my lord for a help to come and then you have come to fall on me".

With that, Kola paused as the voice he heard emanating from nowhere shocked him so much given the fact that he had felt that no one had seen him when he entered the bush to claim his own life and at once, he hen climbed down and began the search for whose voice it was that he heard while making such an attempt to claim his own life and surprisingly saw a Lame man taking a shelter under the tree and at once, he felt pity for the lame man by asking him what it was he was doing right there inside the bush and the lame man then replied him by asking him what it was he too was doing in the bush.

The lame man's shocking answer to him then propelled him to tell him why he was right there in the bush given his frustrations from his fire destroyed farm land which landed his decision to end his own life and at once, the lame man then said to him, " you are really a very mad stupid man for ever making an attempt to take your own life". So he wondered why he was called a stupid man by the lame man who went further and gave him reasons why he said that and the main reason he told him was that it was stupid of anyone to want to ever think of taking his own life irrespective of his situation while citing himself being a lame man and yet having the urge to stay alive without ever thinking of committing suicide as an example and with that, Kola then rose in shame after he had repeatedly pleaded with the lame man to take him to his house of which the lame man refused.

After all, Kola did managed to pick up his own pieces again and yet again and again, he was able to find some light at the end of the tunnel despite haven started from square one and what propelled and increased his hunger and urge to succeed was the positive encounter he had had with the lame that changed his entire story from being a potentially dead man to being a man filled with so much life, happiness and wrath yet again.

His story got everyone thinking and redirected most future push for ending ones' life irrespective of ones' current predicament. That indeed became the lesson that was learnt from Kola and the lame man's story.

What have you all learnt from my story? Let's hear you all!

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