On my way home sometime last
week, I stopped this bike-man and told me how much he’ll charge so we haggled.
We eventually concluded that I’d pay 80 naira instead of the 100 naira he asked
for with the condition that he’d pick up someone else. I was cool with that. He
tried picking up someone else but the person wanted to pay 70 naira instead of
the 80 naira he was charging me. I thought it was a good deal because he’d get
to get something rather than stand the chance of no one else going towards our
direction therefore getting only 80 naira instead of 150. It was simple
mathematics and common sense to me but he refused to see it that way.
It was an ‘integrity issue’ like
one of my friends would say. He didn’t want to stray away from what he said or
purposed in his heart. He wanted it his way or no other way regardless of what
he stood to lose or gain. I’ve heard people say stuff like ‘I’d rather go
hungry than ask him for money’ and many more statements relating to that. It
sounds like pride but if you think again, you’d see a very determined person
who isn’t willing to bend regardless of what’s at stake.
If we used that kind of
determination to pursue our goals in life, we’ll probably be in a better place
right now than we currently are. A lot of us determine to stop certain things
from happening and we put all our hard-work into making sure it stays that way
but sadly, we don’t use the same kind of determination to plan our life, the
outcome we want et al. We would rather quit, bend, compromise at times when we
should put in our 100 percent.
My point? Put your heart to
something and do everything to make it work within your power. Understand that
whatever result you get from it directly affects you first before it affects
anything or anyone else in your life. Eliminate all ‘what if it doesn’t work?’ and
focus on ‘what if it does?’
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