We've heard people say, work hard, life is tough, the living world is not for the lazy, no food for a lazy man……. much more. Adding so much importance to life, and making it look like a do or die affair. Meanwhile at the end, you'll still die, I'll still die…everyone would die! And what then happens, life goes on.
Someone once said, in a large congregation I found myself sometime ago that there's no end to life’s challenges until you die and on the other hand, if you have life always going smoothly for you, you better watch it because just one blow can turn a tragic ending for such a person.
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Another time, I came across a video online about 2 heavily built fat women.they were seated in a car, one in the driver seat the other at the passenger seat and they were both eating and giving advice to whoever is watching them. They said, “Eat o, because life problem nor dey finish” for the sake of those who don't understand, it means “Eat! because there's no end to life problems”
It was a very funny video, with their sizes and the amount of food they were consuming, i was sure that they knew what they were talking about. Their size alone is one problem, I say so because those who have so much fat in the body find it hard to walk or move around, But then, you find these ones randomly making a video of themselves eating so much junk and advising you to also eat because life challenges would never stop.
Back to reality, you see from the two illustrations given, When one speaks on the challenges of life man faces till he meets his end and the other who didn't counter this opinion but then advises we eat no matter what. The over serious mind would call the second adviser a fool, believing them to be a joke and unserious minded fellows.
But please before you take life so serious, ask yourself, does life take you seriously too? Life has been doing just fine before you came into existence and it'll continue to be so even after you leave. Having this consciousness, with every money i make, whether big or small, enjoyment would be the deal of the day😌
If i don't have much, i could go out and get bread and egg with chocolate yogurt after buying it, i would come back home to fry my eggs, open the bread and spread my fried eggs inside it. If God is merciful to me that day, he would touch the heart of Napa to bring our light, and when that happens i tear like 3 middle sheet of paper, wrap my bread with it and start ironing the paper with my bread inside, at that point, the aroma of my soon to be toasted bread makes me more happier😩😅 and when it's looks toasting to my taste, i would unwrap the paper off the bread, settle down with my chocolate yogurt, put on a music (that's if am in the mood to hear one) and then, EAT!
By the time I am done, I'll just lay in bed and sleep. Whenever I am awake, we'll continue life's problems from where it stops, starting from what to eat the next day, which will eventually come but the main fact there is, I've enjoyed myself by eating what I felt like and not what's available.
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The moment you start treating life as it comes and putting yourself into consideration by giving you the treat you deserve and rendering the little help you could offer to those around you, you'll realize how stable your mental health would be. Luckily, we find ourselves in the 21st century and not the period of the Roman Empire that was full of war. So now you have no excuse not to enjoy it like me that have small money 😂. I forgot to mention what I would have loved to eat if I were to have more cash. Not everyone would know this food called Banga Rice. My God! I don't joke with it, sometimes it is the way to my heart especially when I am down, just buy me Banga rice not from eatery o. The one they sell in those party big pots that they arrange firewood under the pot seated in the wheel biro to sell, you'll find it in warri, Delta State. Just buy me a full pack of banga rice with 4 meat( asoeted part mostly, but don't add floater or kponmo any other is good) with a little beans, just very small please i don't like beans that much and a few platain then tell the person selling to add stew and bring to me😌 If i don't fall in love with you then it's small thing that remain. All these are my own way of feeling good, find yours too and make yourself happy for as long as you live, remember that life is not running away, it is ours that's ticking… As it ticks, let it be in record that at a time we get ourselves that treat we deserve because the end is enclosed with 6 feet 💔
No matter what happens, it could be having a close one laying on the hospital bed or battling with health challenges yourself or even the ones that are unimaginable, give yourself a moment to breathe, that little time is worth it. After feeling good you'll see how energetic you're able to face and if possible give a final stop to that very problem. 😊