FAINT YET PURSUING( Week 4 (Jan 2013)

FAINT YET PURSUING(Week 4 (Jan 2013)

ISOLA TAIWO

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ife is a race of the survival of the fittest. It started right from the womb and ends on the day we log out of planet earth. Life is a two sided coin: the rough and the tough side and the smooth and the easy side. But too often, we find ourselves treading on the hard and rough side. The study of great men reveals how they struggled against the tide of life to emerge champions. According to an author “the height which great men attained and kept were not by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept were busy toiling upwards”

We faint at the terrain of Destiny because the forces of life’s demands on us outweigh our emotional strength which results in psychological stress.

In life, there are moments when the going gets tough; when learning becomes a difficult task, pressures of tough courses mount , raw challenges from home stares us in the face and environmental condition wears us out. To add salt to injuries, stories of unemployed graduates force us to this sad conclusion “Why all this learning?”

All of us are running the race against time. But when our dreams and expectations are not achieved within a set frame of time, our mind is drained of inner strength to pursue further. Nelson Mandela observed “Many of us will have to pass through the valley-of-the-shadow-of-death over and over again before we get to the mountain top of your desires” Mandela used the word “death” to imply emotional drain and psychological exhaustion that makes that makes one’s Pursuit a burden.

Cheer up! Great men are not born. They are cultivated; not on the soil of convenience but on that of commitment. Most of us were told to dream big but we were not told that our dream will have to pass through the heat of discouragement before it can move from the realm of fantasy to that of reality.

 Above all, there is a phase we all get to in life when Time conflicts with our Career and both of them wage Civil war against our Identity. How does this happen? See you Next SEASON of The EXAM Academy! I’ll Miss YOU all!