Inception
After years of trying to live off that which you love the most and not getting it right, there comes a point in time where one feels like giving up. Be it due to frustrations of not getting the formula right or bad choices that result in immense loss of capital, investment, time and disappointing potential clients.
"It's been years trying, nothing seems to be going well in my life....I'm depleted, giving up is the only sane option I have left."
How often have you heard this line before, or something similar. Even better, how often have you heard this response: " Hang in there, things will get better soon/someday."
When is that day? After years of struggling, many young men eventually give up on trying and resort to living to see tomorrow instead of building for better tomorrows. The lucky few, who get their voices heard survive to change their lives and try reach out to others in similar positions.
The majority from locations/rural areas remain in the darkness, suffering from depression, anxiety, regrets or stress of being failures in life.
For those in the middle class, who were afforded tertiary education and managed to build careers out of what they learned are sometimes blinded about the realness of the situations their peers are suffering from.
It is easy to presume it can be done because you have made it. It is easy to dismiss others as not putting in effort towards making their lives better. It is easy to tease someone on twitter for living in his mother's house in the back yard, or teasing someone who is above 25 years for not having anything going for himself.
The difficult part is submerging yourself in their lives and understanding where they are getting wrong. The difficult part is seeing people shunning those who are struggling with making a living the best way they could.
Until you walk a mile in someone else's shoes, what makes you think it's ok to criticise, judge and shun those struggling with what they haven't manage to comprehend?
Until you spend time with someone you share a drink with and ask them where are they struggling in life, what gives you the right to sub-tweet them and call them a failure?
I come from an environment where friendship has a different meaning than what I have thus been exposed to here in the big city. I come from a time where if one makes it, others follow by not ridding the wave of success of the other, but by being exposed to HOW it is done.
I come from an era where sharing your ideas with a friend didn't end with a simple "Good luck" but escalated to "I know someone who can help you polish off your dreams and see your ambitions through."
What kills a lot of young men's dreams in the locations is not the fact that they are from disadvantaged areas, it is because of the lack of information and knowing how to get started.
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"Hang in there, one day you will make it."
How is one going to make it when he is struggling with getting started? How is one to succeed when those entrusted to share valuable information on being self-sufficient are the ones shutting doors to ideas that could be solutions to what most communities are struggling with: Moral Decay, Drug Abuse, Infidelity, Drop in pass rate, etc.
We live in a time where lessons from cultural teachings/disciplines are shunned upon and deemed outdated.
We live in a time where everyone wants to be seen as being in a better position, albeit being shallow/empty inside. We want to be seen, no matter the cost of making it happen.
How many young men/women from your area do you know that can benefit from outreach projects offered at your work place that you hardly share information on or talk about?
How many young minds can you help through sharing valuable information that you have access to?
We would rather spend our time musing on who's uhdirty laundry got hung out instead of building platforms that will help others get started towards changing their lives.
This is by no means a crusade to change the world overnight, but a challenge to you and yours on how best can we change people's lives through sharing valuable information on how to be self sufficient and create opportunities that will see those who have dreams of being self employed enter that realm better equipped.
