Life unfolds so many realities to us, it is only that we are, many times, too busy to observe.
So many people who had tried to live as slaves at least to have a status were denied the opportunity and instead became masters themselves.
Sometimes life could be too harsh to us that we would be running everywhere looking for succor, for a hand to hold us but find it hard to be received.
The struggle could even be too daunting that you would feel like any job could be settling but you would still end up finding nothing to have.
At times, you would be accepted or even be given a job but in a few days, things would just start to crumble again and finally, you would be at fall-out, leaving you more vulnerable. The acceptance has been turned down and the job terminated.
Disappointments upon disappointments, you start to feel depressed for being so unlucky with everyone and everything. But then again, you just suddenly feel yourself being seized by this “energy” calling you to gather yourself again. But this time around, instead of thinking to go somewhere to seek “help” you begin to think about how you could be like those people who rejected you and disappointed you — there you decide on where to go and how to take a lead of your life.
In a few months and years of sweating, trying and holding more upon the calling, you suddenly find yourself in the league of those people, or even in a better position, and there you would start to think, “Why didn’t I make this decision in the first place? Why did I allow myself to be so humiliated by these people?”
But all those bad, disappointing experiences were not bad for you. They were good for you. Because they helped you become who you’re today. And if they had never happened, you would have been a slave now.
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Again, when people rejected you or refused to help you or decided to disappoint you, don’t feel too bad. Don’t even hate them. Be grateful to them, because they are likely the people who are helping you to become someone that they would one day have no option but ask for “help”.
And when they come to you — and they will probably do because God may likely decide to give them a life lesson through you — don’t deny them anything. Be gracious to them, and say to them, “Thank you. you are the reason why I became a master rather than a slave. And in fact, you are the reason why I made it myself.” Be blessed.
By Bin Isah