Special greetings to everyone on this glorious platform. The theme for this edition comes very powerful with what most people tend to run away from and sometimes is being misinterpreted. The theme says risk we take. Life is a risk. Risk can be seen as both positive and negative. It could be seen as an outcome of an event. Every aspect of life is a risk on its own. The earlier one accepts it the better. Risk could be in Business, academic pursuit, religious body etc.
During my elementary class in business studies, I taught of entrepreneurship as a person who is a sole proprietor of a business and manages every risks involved in it. The degree to which one manages risk determines the altitude which one could attained. Risk might lead to uncertainty or unnecessary outcomes sometimes it could yield positive or negative impacts in the life of an individual. In this post, I will share some life experiences I had and the kind of risk I took recently even though I never knew the expected outcome but I was highly optimistic though.
There was a job opportunity that I saw and was so excited to apply because I felt would fit into it. I gathered all courage and was very positive. I drafted my application and got it well typed, got all the documents photocopied. Hmmm do you know I have never been to that location since I was born? Even though it's a local government within my state. It has been one of the farthest local governments and isolated in the state. I summoned courage and decided to embark on that journey just of recent.
I went straight to the park, boarded a car going to that place. As the journey began, the road seems to be an unending one. Sincerely the road was fairly ok but hmmm I just sat down as a stranger don't know exactly where we were going. I kept seeing bushes sharply a thought came what if we were kidnapped here? Why is it that there are not houses surrounding the whole environment? When would we arrive and submit all these applications? As if I should tell the driver to drop me but deep within me courage came then i decided to continue with the journey. As i arrived the place of submission, i saw huge crowd and queue but thank God I was able to submit and i left immediately even though it was night. I got to my house around 8pm at night.
lessons
If I didn't summoned courage to go, i would have missed the opportunity. I have listened to many people and they created a wrong notion for me about the whole place. I took the risk against all odds to travel to a strange land for the first time.
When you don't step out, nothing just happened. Fear is what cage many and kept them bound to uncertainty without taking any deliberate actions.
Some risk worth taking them because it pays off at the end even though at the initial it doesn't appear easy.
All things doesn't have to be in place before you take a step.
Thanks for reading through my entry.