Greetings!
The saying that life is a mystery is not just a saying, but a mysterious assertion. This is because if we look at life critically, one would know that life is not just about living in it, eating in or even putting on fine clothing nor sleeping, but that there's more to everything about it. Though, we might be seeing and living in it physically, but there's another aspect of life that's more than physical.
Without wasting much of our time here, I would like to directly delve into the matter before us which is about the science of self review, which in other way, has to do with life as it has occured to each and everyone of us including me.
Life they say will not give us what we deserve, which is absolutely true. Not only this, our wish in life might be dealt with with the principle and mystery of life itself and this is why whenever I personally looked back, I used to have this deep breath about what life had brought to me.
Everybody has a master plan for his or her life and for someone like me, I also had my own plans most especially while growing. Though, not the kind of dream of what we used to have as a kid, because I could remember we used to have the dream of becoming a pilot or an accountant when we were kids. This particular plan of mine was not that kind, but a mature master plan of doing great in the business world, most especially, in the term of investments that has to do with properties.
So, having these great plans while growing up as a secondary school student always gave me the hope of a greater and brighter future, but unfortunately, I could not study my desired course of the associated field in the university as I was given a different course in the field of science and zoology in particular. Hmmm, my dream.of studying estate management was dashed by the admission regulation body. But for someone like me I would not give up as I persistently pursue my goal in life.
There's a day I went to the department of estate management and there I met with one of their senior lecturer whom I told my dream and in response to what I discussed with him, he told me I can still actualize my dream without even studying the course as he gave me examples of those people that have made it in the field without studying the course. When I heard this, I was happy and left the place fulfilled and with joy in my heart.
So, after few years, I graduated from the department of Zoology, faculty of science and instead of going on to practicalized what I have studied in the university, I intended to pursue my dream in estate management, but as I was about delving into the business, a friend of mine named Muyiwa came to me with a new and lucrative business idea and this time around, it's a mechanized farming business, which has to do with both crop and animal production, when he tabled this new idea before me, I was dumbfounded, Just because of the profits I would make if ventured into the business.
So, with all I have seen and heard about the business, I didn't hesitate to venture into doing it. I committed all the resources at my disposal into it, not only this, I took loan to finance it at some point, but at the end, all I invested and committed into the business did not bring anything as profit to me. The first thing that happened to my crops was that they withered away, some that managed to germinate were stunted all because of no rain at the right time. What of the livestocks? I couldn't gain as much as I have envisaged on the livestocks as well just because of flu, most especially the swine flu that ravaged my pigs that year, it's indeed a sad story for me, all because I deviated from my original plan to follow the advice of a friend who himself have no prior knowledge about what he's introduced me to.
So, after all that has happened to me where I deviated to as a result of the advice given to me by a friend, I was down and frustrated not because of anything, but because of my wasted resources, which I would still need to pay back to those that loaned me the money, also, the wasted time and energy that cannot be measured was another thing that made me cried. But with the help of friends and family, I was able to pay my debt and refocused on what to next to fo which was my original dream and vision of investing in properties.
Now, starting again was not as easy as I have thought to myself but there's nothing I could do than to start all over and again, but this time around, I took a calculated risk by not investing all that was raised for me by friends and family. So, instead of investing all, I started with a plot of land, but with time, I have been able to expand the coast of the business, though there's challenges as well, but because of my vision and mission, I have been able to make remarkable progress.
All these my new achievement didn't just happened, but from the help of the experiences I have gathered from the failure of my last outing in farming and the self retreat I did looking at where I'm coming from, where i was back then and when in aimed to be in the future and that's what led me to going back to the drawing board of my life to start again what i have abandoned and neglected. And I'm now really enjoying myself.
This is my entry to the sciFi weekly prompt.
Thanks for reading.
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