LIFE NUGGET: STAY ON IT

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"If you can't fly, then run,
  If you can't run, then walk,
  If you can't walk, then crawl,
  But whatever you do,
  You have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King Jnr

Everyone has had moments when things got so bad or confusing that the first reaction was to give up and just run away. Some have even given up on things when the going was tough. I'm not here to criticise or beat anyone up. I have been in one of those situations too. It is really hard to keep the faith and keep moving forward when everything is working against you. But you know what I learnt? Most times, the things working against you are all up in your head.
We have this highly developed brains that work more than we give it credit for. And in some situations, it works more than we would like it to. I can not see horror movies because the entire week after I do, I'll have flashes and thoughts of scary things happening, I will be too scared to go to a dark place alone. But as I grow up, I see, and try to remember, that the flashes are just a figment of my imagination: it's all up in my head. I mean, there just can't be a ghost of a woman chasing me just because I said "Bloody Mary". Or a really tall zombie chasing me with a chainsaw! Really Rae?! For one, we are in Nigeria! It's not like that here.
But I'm sure you get the picture. In real life, in our career, academics, businesses, we imagine some really scary things happening, most of which never happens. And when we are faced with tough situations, our imagination starts running wild and we start imagining the worse things. This is one of the reasons why some of us give up.
It all begins and ends in your mind. Success takes time to achieve, and quitting won't speed it up. What you give power has power over you, if you allow it. Learn to fight for what you want, even if you would be fighting alone. Stay alive, stay dedicated to your dreams, stay fighting, don't ever give up, just keep moving forward.
And at the end, when people ask what you did, tell them "Whatever it took".
Have a fruitful day!


- The Lady

    “Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.”

Acts 28:6