ALIVE!!!

Many would say "it is not yet time to dance", many would say "don't jubilate till you have all you desire, you don't even know how tomorrow will turn out"; "you know things change" they say, "be sure you have had a lot before you start counting..." you know and many more excuses to neglect the wonders of being alive and living. But the truth is, we cannot look away completely from the fact that we are still alive. At least not for long.

Sometimes we ask to know what is there to be happy about. Especially if you are a Nigerian and you are not the 'omo baba olowo' type. You have to struggle to make ends meet. You have to pray and sometimes fast like food was never a part of your dictionary to make small progress. Or you are on a job that is not paying well and even though you feel you deserve more you dare not leave it as you do not know when next another of such offers, O! sorry, another of such opportunities will come your way. Especially if you begged before you got the job. Maybe your lover of a long time is clamouring for a marriage that is long overdue and you know that you do not even earn enough to think you can cater for a child now. As if that is not enough, your prophet just told you that it is an old woman with a couple of teeth left in her mouth that is responsible for your predicament. To now add insult to injury, your political leaders seem to be governing another nation different from the one you live in. Because while they appear glowing and winning you are just there...struggling....

But you are alive!

To me it is enough reason to face each day with optimism. The progress might not have been too pronounced but you sure are not where you used to be. Do you know that all you need to make it in life is you...and of course God. Most of it rests on you though. God has done His part, you just need to wake up to the wonderful secrets He has placed around you and within you. No one can stop you except God and you and He is not interested in stopping you at all. So brace up and win in this game called life. Yeah, imagine you are faced with a puzzle in a game and everything is arranged to make it not so easy to solve but you are expected to solve it. The puzzle is only hard not impossible. So is life, it may be hard, but it is not impossible. So wake up and win as the puzzle may be around so hard but within you lies the answer to solve them all...

So even though the flowers are dying around, there is an ever fresh source of bouquet within; if the clouds above are darkening, there is an ever brightening ray of hope from within; and even though living is impossible for many, you have breath in your nostrils.



So let us appreciate being alive as we always have the chance to solve this puzzle called life. Let's live!