The pursuit of happiness, is a die-hard endevour. A lot of people miss the mark, some focus on the wrong things, others like Melvin (GTB's writer for today) never loose focus. Holding on to what is most important and sieving the useless or less important stuffs aside.
Just yesterday, I and a couple of friends went to catch some fun at the beach (the write up tagged "the beach experience" will elucidate more to this story), we needed to play hard, since we had also worked hard. There is nothing bad in having some "me" time, it helps to add more meaning to living. Today's writer is my good friend, all the way from Iganmode Grammar School,Ota, and I am glad he is writing today. I told Melvin about the project #31days31epistles, and after a bit of discussion, he promised to send this in, and i am grateful for that, do enjoy his epistle..
I would start by saying
every seconds, minutes and hour counts. As we all know, time wasted can never
be recovered.
Not until this year I
was able to understand the definition of ‘Time’ and ‘Ignorance’ and its impacts
on our daily living. Time they say is the indefinite continued progress of
existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole while
Ignorance is termed as a state of being uninformed (a lack of knowledge). Time
and ignorance has been a major factor in the pursuit of my goals and objectives
in the past six months.
The first half of my
year hasn’t been exciting as I would have wished it to be; nonetheless we still
have to give thanks to God for whatever situation we find ourselves. He is
always present as said in John 16:33, saying in the world we would have tribulation,
but we should be of good cheer for he has overcome the world.
I experienced a lot in
the past six months ranging from academic fears, ill-lucks with friends, health
issues, coupled with relationship instability, thereby rendering most of my
efforts futile in balancing all issues, and time was a major factor in the aforementioned
subjects, which brings to note that God understands all we’re going through.
The most remarkable of all my experiences was that of my academic fears where I
made distinctions in my course works, and my project work was a barrier in
achieving an M.sc certificate. I was made to understand that ignorance is a big
disease. I commenced my project work with little or no supervision in which
three months passed by and I felt I was on the right track only to discover I
was off track and I was already preparing for my defense, then it dawned on me
that I was wasting my past months as a result of ignorance with a possibility
of spending an extra year. Then I had no choice than to seek God’s intervention
in which he intervened.
During the periods of trying to meet up the deadline
for graduation, I recall some moments in which I spent a whole 24hrs without
blinking my eye to sleep, never had appetite for food, in line with health
issues and also relationship issues which later led to separation and in the
midst of these, time was a conscious factor to be considered, and all these has
never happened at once since I was born and they all stood as barriers to
achieving the certificate. But I thank God that at last I conquered and
graduated as one of the best three students in the whole University. Praise
God.
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