LIFES LESSONS

LIFES LESSONS

When i was a school going kid, my mum used to wake me up very early in the Morning to prepare me for school, this going to school business was annoying me very much as I only wanted to sleep and play the whole day.

I would wake up very very annoyed with my mum, thinking that mum did not love me, my reason was if she really cared for me then she would let me sleep and play.

In my tiny mind i thought that by going to school i was doing my mum a favour, because i thought that she would benefit by me going to school and that by not going I would be punishing her, little did i know that it was for my own good

.I did my primary level for seven years and then proceeded on to secondary school for another 4 years it was in secondary school when it became apparent that i needed to go to school and that i was learning for my own future benefit and not my parents,

During my secondary school days it was easy going for my mum since at least i knew what i was doing.

But this time i thought that waking up and going to school was tiresome come sun come rain you are always on the move ,then in my mind i would think that after my o level i will be having a good time of my life since there

Won’t be waking up early in the morning i will be sleeping to the fullest since i will be out of school.

Actually though i thought i knew what i was doing but i was mistaken because it seems i was still thinking like a boy and not like a grown up, because after ‘o’ level there was always a possibility of proceeding to A level or college like

The polytechnic and others, after my o level i went to college and again in my mind i thought that going to college would be the final lap of waking early morning every day.

College days came and went but the sleep that i was yearning for was never there, after college it was the time whereby i was handed my life certificate that said” welcome to the world” the certificate meant that, you are no longer your parents kid

You are a grown up who can take care of one self and not waiting for your parents to provide you with everything those days were slowly becoming history.

By now it was not a matter of waking very early in the morning but instead it was time of waking up in the middle of the night, to think what next after college the life is in your hands now whatever i used to call sleeping was just a mirage since it was no longer there I

Needed to get things going and to make them going i needed a job desperately.

During those days we used to rely on newspapers to get information especially job seekers like myself; I had no money to buy the news paper
There was no internet, so i had to borrow the paper from my father and immediately to pages on employments. As expected there were some vacancies
Advertised on the papers but 90% of them would require some 2 to 3 years experience, this was a big challenge for me as i was fresh from college
Where on earth would i have attained the experience? But all in all i still needed a job because when we were kids, we were told that if you get good education
You will get a good job, but now i was lacking experience and that to me proved be a hard nut to crack.

i did what i could do to find a job but things were becoming next to impossible, though i was not yet employed but i was waking up early every morning
to open up the chicken house and then take my grandfathers cow for grazing, this was one way of keeping myself busy, though it was a way of occupying
Myself with something to do but i also learnt something which kept my fighting spirit alive.

Every morning around 7 o’clock the chicken made some noises as if to tell you it’s already time to wake up and go get something for ourselves, the animals
Were not zero grazing so they had to go out every morning and come back in the evening. When you open the door to the chicken house you will see them running out as if they are late for work
They would go feed themselves the whole day only to come back in the evening to sleep and this was their daily routine, i never discovered any lazy bird who slept the whole day and do nothing as a matter of being lazy, but instead they will all go out to find food for themselves.

This behavior taught me a good lesson, as i was asking myself if all the birds could go out to feed themselves and no one was left behind, then why should i be lazy? these questions made me to be very active in my quest to finding a job.

After 4 good years i managed to find a job with a telecommunication company of which i work to date. After working for 22 years i still wake up early every morning come sun come rain i must wake up to prepare for work everyday
, to date am still asking myself is there any given time when one can relax and sleep up to 10 o’clock in the morning?
I have discovered that even the few days i take for a vacation every year there is no time to sleep up to late in the day.

As the saying also says that “THE EARLIEST BIRD CATCHES THE WORM”

To be continued………….