Hi everyone on steemit. I feel excited to be back here writing this today. A lot has happened. I've experienced life these past few days. I've been pressurized but the pressure is only bringing out the best in me because that is the only thing I'm made of. Today I'll like to share with you some part of the lessons that life has thought me these few days.
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Weeks ago a friend of mine planted some seeds for his pet project. The seeds were dormant for a while and refused to germinate. Some people who they lived together made fun of him calling him a fake farmer. Although he didn't like these comments, he didn't let them get the best of him. He still watered the seeds every day. After some weeks, he saw a young seedling sprouting up. It was a success. It took time but when the seed germinated, the wasted time and efforts were forgotten.
You may be wondering how my friend's pet project has got to do with you? Am I trying to tell you to do a pet project or maybe plant some seeds too? Maybe not. But ride with me.
I'm asking you to do much more than my friend. I'm asking you to do this because what you have inside of you is more important than the seeds he planted for his pet project. In you are seeds that will change the course of this world. In you are seeds that will cause a revolution. In you are seeds of inventions and discoveries. So I am pleading with you to plant these seeds. Water them with your hard work and determination. Watch them every day and don't forget to water them with your perspiration.
The ideas you have in your head are seeds. The lyrics to that song that you have in your head is a seed. The app you have in your head is a seed that will become the next big thing. The words you have in your mind are seeds and they are the chapters of that beautiful book. All you have to do is to plant them down in a book. Soil the pages of the book with your inks. That business idea in your head is a seed. That drawing and painting you've imagined can be the next "Mona Lisa" masterpiece. Get to the canvas and start splashing some inks on that beard.
Imagine if JK Rowling did not write Harry Potter; the world would have been denied of all those magical scenes. Imagine if Zuckerberg didn't create facebook; you wouldn't have been able to connect with your old classmates and friends. Imagine if Larry page is bringing down google today. Imagine if @ned and @dan hadn't written the code for steemit; you might still be wasting your data surfing the net without being paid back for your time.
When you plant your seeds (ideas, inventions, business plans etc...) they don't always look like the expected results. The truth is that they get buried and they have to die first. They have to die so that the ugly and the bad sides of them die with them too. Then after a while, they live again. They sprout out as a brand new book, a renowned company, a hit song, a life-transforming platform.
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And don't worry if you've been planting your ideas all this while but none of it has grown into a plant. Remember you can always plant again and again. You are permitted to fail but you don't have to remain a failure. You are permitted to also rise again and do something with your life.