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Showing posts with label keeping hope alive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label keeping hope alive. Show all posts
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Saturday, June 9, 2018
HELP INCOMING?
Have you
ever been at a crossroad? Have you ever reached out to people around you for
help and no one looked your way?
Well my post is for you.
Femi had a
dream, a passion burning within him. He wanted to pursue this dream. Everyone
tried to discourage him. They said he was stupid that it would never work. He’s
nobody, he’s not even a celebrity, so who would buy into his dream. Femi
reached out to his friends and family members, some promised to help. He waited
on them but help never came. He called and called, went to their offices,
houses but they only gave him words. Days turned into weeks, weeks into months
and months into a year. The people he had counted on; the friends, aunties and
uncles had let him down. Femi was distraught. His dream was dying before his
eyes. One day,
Saturday, May 19, 2018
IS HOPE ENOUGH?
I hear people say all the time;
"We hope for the best."
"All we can do is hope."
"There is nothing we can do but hope and pray."
What then is your definition of Hope?
‘To have a wish to get or do something or for something to happen or be true, especially something that seems possible or likely.’
‘A feeling that something desirable is likely to happen’.
The above definitions are according to the Encarta dictionary.
Should you keep waiting for a wish to get or
Saturday, July 12, 2014
KEEPING HOPE ALIVE
I remember one of my favourite stories of all
time ‘PANDORA’S BOX’. If you are a lover of Greek and Roman Mythology you must
have heard of it. Pandora’s curiosity got the better of her and she just had to
open that box and out into the world came; misery, famine, hunger, hate,
sadness and everything evil known to man
was released. Looking into the box, thinking it empty but alas, one was left.
One had refused to escape. It was hope.
In everything there is always hope. Hope for
a better life is what wakes you up in the morning. Hope to put forward your
best to leave your mark in the world. Hope that you’d find love someday pushes
you into relationships with arms wide open no matter how many times your heart
gets stomped on the floor. Hope that they’d spend forever with you makes you
stand at that altar and say ‘I do’. Hope
for good education, takes you to the university. Hope, that there’d be
electricity makes you pay the electricity bills even though your light bulb
never blinked last month.
Hope, there is nothing as powerful as hope.
Hope lifts the human spirit. Hope is the reason we all still live in this
country. Hope that the missing Chibok girls would be found. Hope that Nigeria
can get better.
Hope no matter how bleak is hope. It can be a
bright burning furnace, it can be a dim matchstick light, and it is hope.
Without hope, all is lost. Hope to me is what the religious sects tag as faith.
They say without faith you have nothing, so I
tell you; without Hope you are lost.
I don’t know if you’ve ever come across the
lifeless body of one who has committed suicide? That is a person who had no ray
of hope.
Please keep hope alive. No matter how bleak
your future looks right now. You might look around you and you see poverty .
You’ve been searching for love but you’ve been thrown to the wolves every time.
You’ve been hoping for a better country but the state of your country leaves
tears and disbelief in your eyes. Don’t give up. Never ever give up.
When everything looks bleak and beyond your
control, you still have control. That control is hope. Hope will never leave
you. Hope has the ability to manifest from your thoughts. Imagine if every
citizen stopped complaining and calling the situation hopeless but held on to
believe in the future, hope. Hope, I can’t explain it is like a spirit. It
brings the right things to help you manifest it your way.
During the slave trade, the slaves hoped that
someday they would be free. They held on
to it tightly. With time, freedom arrived, their hope became real. Then the
generations after them hoped for equal rights, to be free and seen as human.
With time, segregation was gone and blacks and whites became equal. That hope
gave birth to the future which is today, that undying hope has put a black man
in the White house. I’m not a preacher but that’s the power of hope.
People can say what they will about you,
about your works, and about your circumstances but only you can change it. Do
you believe the picture they have painted? Or do you hold on the hope in your
heart that things will change, that where you are now isn’t the you of
tomorrow?
The power lies in you. That power is how big
your hope for change is. Forget what you say to others. When you sit down and
listen to yourself in the silence of your heart. Do you really have hope?
I beg you, no matter where and what you find
yourself in, there’s always hope. Suicide isn’t the way out. Only you can
change that situation if you believe it can change. Your mind and hope becomes
you. No one, absolutely no one can take that away from you.
Keep the hope in you alive; keep the hope in
Nigeria alive.
Don’t lose hope. Cheers to the future you and
your future situation.
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