*I Want Something Like that*
Are you Sure?
A number of times, we admire someone's life when it's working well and think "I want something like that" without realizing, there was a time when that wasn't that. We see a good wife/husband and think "I wish I had a wife/husband like that one" because we see the now and admire the now, without looking at what the spouse went through to bring out a good wife/husband in their partner. We see a lawyer at the peak of their career and admire/envy that, without seeing ZIALE (Bar Qualification Exams) on the way.
When people don't know your "then" they'll admire and envy the "now". And yet given a chance to live your life, they wouldn't last a day in your then. There is always a process for progress. Until you are ready to pass through the process, you can't get the progress. Before Joseph was prime minister, he was thrown into a pit, sold to merchants, accused of rape by a horny boss, put in prison, and then became prime minister. Therefore, instead of envying the beauty and manners of someone else's man/woman, can you make your own man/woman. Before you envy and even become jealous of someone's life, can you wear their shoes yesterday?
There are too many people who won't get anywhere in life because they are not ready to pass through the process for progress. They wish they could meet a genie in a bottle, make a wish and boom, they are on top. We admire Dangote for what he is now, without realizing this is a product of more than 20 years of sweat, stress and tears. A good relationship takes time to build, and some want it in two weeks. We want to start building from the top and because it's not possible to do that, we remain admiring things we can't build because all we want is the now... if you really want a good man, woman, career, business, start the process now... You will make mistakes on the way, lose money and time, be laughed at and scolded, become an example of failure, etc, but all that is you simply building your "then" to a great "now" in the near future. Start Now.
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