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After I graduated from college my mentality for waiting for the government to give me work started fading gradually until it eventually died completely. I have seen how many people wasted their lives and precious time because they misunderstood the concept of waiting and they are now left at nowhere. It was then I understood that waiting doesn't mean to sit idle expecting someone to bring manner to you, no! Waiting means to preparing and developing yourself while hoping for the days to be better. As time goes by, each day I get scared the more because I feel I am gradually making progress to old age and yet all my dreams are not been realized. Should I put the blames on the government? Not at all. Soon I began feeling like I wasted my time by going to school, because it was not helping matters , I could not use what I studied in college to earn a living. Yet i look around and see people both young and old making it in life. Some of my age, others below my age and some older than I am, but how are they doing it? That was one question I kept asking myself, are they having two heads? What could they have possibly known that I didn't? Because the truth is I have been trying to make things work prior to that time but things were not working out. i knew it that something was missing somewhere, somehow.
I have a friend, he is almost approaching 30 years now but his mother still provide almost everything that he needs, but something happened along the line he had issue with his family and the supplies ceased. That affected him a lot, he had a taste of what life outside the covering of parents really is. he learnt a lesson out of it, he met me and said guy! I am a man and grown up to some extends even if I reconcile with my family I don't want them to be catering for my needs anymore. At almost thirty I can't get even common toiletries for myself? I know the story sounded funny right? But it is so pathetic. That guy can do some thing to earn a living but he was still a child, sucking breast even at thirty. I know that guy to be a painter, but he doesn't like to work because he has food been given to him at home. Probably he is among the class of those people who do not really understand what it means to wait until situations pushed him out of his comfort zone. He returned back to his skill and started working on his painting skill, later he joined it with POP (plaster of Paris) ceiling and he is now doing well as a man. What am I trying to say? There are many talents buried inside of us, unless with decide to put it to work we may never find meaning out if life.
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Life became very meaningful to me after I discovered my talent, though I discovered it a little bit late but as soon as it came on board, I started working on it. Though I am not that good yet in life we all need a couch to attain excellence. I was born in a kind of environment where by we don't have choice when it comes to doing what will fetch us money, I don't mean we can't choose at all, Everyman has the right to choose. But job opportunities are rare, so anything legal we find our hands to do we don't hesitate to do it. I don't have any specific work or office , I do a lot of work , anyone that comes my way and I have the technical know how I dive into it. Let's just make the money. On this regard, permit me to say, I use both my Talent and hard work to earn a living.
Talent
Since I came across Hive, my Talent began to function properly, thank God it is something I do online therefore, I use my spare time and free days to write . Subsequently I fell so much in love with writing that it has become an addiction to me and because of that I decided to just focused working more with my talent than the other ones I am doing just to earn a living. There's joy in doing what you love doing than just doing a thing to get money out of it. Each time I write I feel alive and I often have a feeling that, it is now that I am making the best use of my life. I don't know but writing gives me hope and satisfaction. Since that is what makes me who I am, I decide to look for possible ways to ensure that I build my talent more. Just because it is a talent doesn't mean I shouldn't work on it or I shouldn't be diligent if I neglect it, as beautiful as it is, it will look as ordinary as anything else. What makes talent outstanding is one's ability to bring out something with a difference. The difference is what makes it unique. if not any other person can do it. In fact anyone can even learn it or get your talent as a skill and can even don far better than you if you don't work on yours and give your best to work. So far so good, my talent has been one of the major source of income and I am happy I have it.
Talents can never be more productive without diligence
Hardwork
As a guy born a community where opportunities are few coupled with hardship, I do a lot of hard labour to earn a living also, I visit building sites and serve as labourer. we mix sand with cement and serve the Masons, at the end I get my money hehe. If you were born in the street you will understand it better, the work doesn't come all the time, therefore we don't rely on it . Aside the site work I also sell with my mother at her shop, though it's my mother's business should I call it my source of income too? Hehe but trust me it takes me a lot to do all these other jobs, if I have my ways I won't do any of them. But an African proverbs say, na condition make crayfish bend, circumstances alter our intentions and give us another shape other than what we desire for ourselves. Well, I don't work by sight but by faith hehe, therefore I don't give up even when thing seems not to go the way I planned, I believe there are better days ahead.
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