Today, for the first time in my writing career, I want to write about completely nothing. There is no point; I want you to do anything else or run to catch a bus or if you would be at home, I want you to call your landlord and let him know that you are praying hard to pay next month’s rent. If you are still reading this one, I would assume that you are bored or maybe you want to know nothing.
But wait, in this article, I’m going to dig deep into everything but before that, I want to let you know that the ideas here are free and optional. You can choose to go through it or you can leave it depending on your current mood. If you previously sat for your exams and got an “F” on a paper where you spent sleepless nights, it will make you hate your lecturer more. But please, don’t do that. He is honestly telling you to find another answer. If you have borrowed someone’s money in the past but you have been dodging him, this writing will make you borrow someone’s money to pay him.
It is a story of things you hate to hear, that is why it is free and of course, it is voluntary to be happy. You can buy a chicken and be happy as owner but you will never know that you have a chicken if you compare it with someone else’s goat. Sometimes, those with missing teeth remember their set of teeth when they see another person with a full set of teeth and instead of being happy, they end up miserable. Like what do you want? If you have something to chew food, what else do you need? Appreciate the little you have because life will be more difficult without it.
To those who are expecting to learn something out of this article, I’m sorry because that is not the intention. This message is addressed to those who don’t care about anything. Those who are okay being who they are, and please, if all you want are “How-to(s)”.
How to succeed or how to be happy or how to live your life or how to overthrow the government without hurting the poor or how to make your girlfriend believe that your relationship will end in marriage, this one will never give you any of those answers, in fact, it will tell you a rather bizarre truth that life truly sucks and you have to be okay with it. If you still have some doubts, you can try some motivational speakers and get to understand how they go to bed at 1: am and wake up at 4: am to think hard about how to make it in life without working hard. Like how could a man in his right senses just sit for those long hours thinking about nothing?
Anyways, if you are really sick and tired of the current situation you are in, this article is not for you because it will make you hate everything, including your own life. If you are doing well everywhere or if you are working in J.1, this piece is a kind reminder that you should enjoy but there is an end. Learn to be grateful for everything before it is no more. If you have a bicycle, it would be a waste of time to wish it were a vehicle. Enjoy the ride.
If you are a nice dancer, dance because you never know a time when one of your legs will be broken. Nothing lasts forever and all your troubles will go one day when you are no more. The world remains and all the friends with all the family continue to carry on facing the same fate.
Don’t be discouraged by almost anything. Don’t also compare because if you do, you will mostly likely find no comfort in the life you live. There is no need to stress over everything. Let people go and move on. If something is really hard, it is a test. Enjoy it. Pray through it so that you can handle more that are on the way because you are going to have more than that. Be thankful for the sun, expect the rain too and it may come with a storm. Let it make you stronger, if it breaks you; let it do so knowing that you have tried your best.
If it were really dark, it would be a waste of time to force the light. It will come. Relax. There are so many things that come with the darkness that we fail to see the sign of blessing through it. We rest when it is dark, at night because the day is always noisy and busy.
During the day, where there is light, you see a number of things, ambulances with patients or people who are lifeless, heading to places of no return or places where there are little chances of return. I can easily call you an animal when that doesn’t make you sad and when it does; it is also a reminder that the same fate awaits each one of us. We should just wait for it and maybe it should change the way we treat others. There is peace, in the dark, because we are too busy forcing light. And remember, life moves really fast. You are racing against nobody. The world is yours alone to explore. Play it the way you want but don’t forget. It will all come to an end.
Don’t try to be fast with it. I’m sorry but there are high chances that you can easily be left behind or your legs can easily get broken in the process. The only thing you can do is to fasten your seatbelt. Run but not after people. Most people run after something or they are running away from something. Don’t run behind them, maybe you are not needed there. Find something that you can chase and not humans. And if you don’t get there one day, you don’t have to forget that it is life and things do happen.
The truth is, nobody is interested to know anything about you. Everyone cares about themselves and not your struggle or success. If you want people to know how successful you are, they should also know about your bad days too. When you see someone holding and eating a bone after someone has already eaten the chicken on it, people think it is disgusting and one can easily get sick doing so but for someone, it is all about survival. Don’t be judgmental because you don’t know what people are going through. The world is too big to mind your own business if you really don’t care. Peace.