Thursday 12th
October 2017
Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First
Hello and welcome to
#MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 38
Title: When Life Happens, Drop The Blame, Pick The Lesson
Learnt!
I
recently came across a man who claimed to be 65 years old and who was working
as a pay loader (you know those people who load and offload goods and
products). I was intrigued seeing such an older man working the job meant for
younger people and so my curiosity took the better part of me and I excused him
for a while; he didn't want to talk to me initially because he would lose money
if he did not continue working but I promised to give him what he would have
earned for the period he would discuss with me and he then agreed. I told him
that I was interested in knowing the reason behind him doing this kind of job
at the age he claimed, without any hesitation or equivocation, he told me
straightaway that he has a family to maintain and since he did not go to school
nor learnt a trade or handwork, the job of payloading was the only one he could
do. He said he didn't start off that way in the first place but that time had
run out on him and he could not possibly go back to undo all the things he did
wrongly nor do the things he ought to have done, but that he is slaving himself
away for his children, praying and hoping that they would be better than him.
He went down the history lane to tell me how he has "sufffered" since
his mother brought him into the world without a father, and how he has landed
from one problem to another, how he married late because he needed to have
representatives on earth, how his wife is not willing to lift a finger to help
him even by doing petty trading saying that he is the man of the house and must
bear all the responsibilities, at a point in his narrative, his eyes became
very misty and I felt that if he continued, he might begin to shed tears, so I
cut it short there and asked him what lessons he had learnt from his numerous
forays into life and living? Why have I written this for your readership? so
that you'd know that all men without exception have their loads of problems; no
man still breathing is exempt from problems, though some people seem to just be
in the thick of problems almost regularly, but it is in the overcoming of these
problems that success is achieved. Life happens to each one of us, missed
opportunities, failed promises, blackmails, failed friendships, unloving
relationships, failed businesses, failed careers e.t.c. but instead of dwelling
in the past and constantly berating yourself for all those failures, it is
better to pick the lesson from the failure and move on. This is simply so
because, there is no life lived backwards, life is always lived in the present
and the future. However if you apply the lessons learnt from the past, to the
present, you would be building a future you'd be proud of. Every failure has
in it the seed for success, look for
that seed, plant it again and I tell you, your future would surely be greater
than your past.
Until I come your way
again, this is #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst
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