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Adebayo Seun Samuel's avatar

I think my dream is helping people. At the end of the day I feel good or better knowing I helped someone or did something to make someone happy or smile. It might be as small as a compliment,a kind gesture , or even recommending songs or books or pages .

Being on my bed at night reflecting on my day just shows me no matter how good or bad my day might have been my best moments are in those little times I showed kindness or helped someone. It puts a smile on my face and makes the next day better cause there’s always someone to help,always someone who needs that word of encouragement or compliment .

Great read again Fola❤️.

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Mūsā_ath_Thānī's avatar

I also experienced failure after great efforts, a failure that breaks an individual to pieces. At that moment I had to rethink myself and about life in general and come to a conclusion. I realized accomplishment, glory, and success in this world do not always come from a just cause and failure doesn't define an individual's true worth. I also realized how passionate I was and how much I hated failure. Failure at that moment became ignorance, a weak or poor mentality.

My greatest fear was initially failure in any form. Being a very passionate individual, pursuing a path of reason and justice, I experienced failures repeatedly learning much more about life, accomplishments, and failures.

I barely graduated due to these struggles but graduated still with the joy I could claim whatever I had was upon hard work and perseverance.

I became much more gentle in dealing with life. I adopted a life of restraint after seeing how failure hunts those upon a proper just cause which helped a lot.

At that moment, my greatest need was just to succeed to survive. And I feared what I didn't know about which could be harmful.

Now, After submitting to a life of total restraint and knowledge-seeking for proper self-discovery knowing there is so much hidden about life, my situation got worse. Life turned against me in every form and way.

This period was determined to make me give up this path, this was my own time of the Great Depression but I fought my way through to learn so much more, this time I navigated through life and death, Sanity and Insanity but I comforted myself knowing I would live in ease knowing I wrestled with life in truth, reason, and justice also knowing the deepest secrets of life, living by true knowledge and certainty, becoming aware than the average human.

Hardly would anyone go this far in search of self-discovery, most skip the hard part, live and embark on a life of dreams without facing their fears, they can only hope life is gentle and be open to failures, but as for me it is important to know the true reality of anything I relate with, so life does not teach me what I should have found out or failed to understand.

Having learned a little from life, I detest the methods of life in teaching lessons in the sense that life's lessons come with grief and sadness, not every grief or sadness allows room for lessons.

I adopted the practice of finding life before it finds me and wrestling with it to claim some form of authority.

I believe after a similar journey wrestling with life in truth, One develops the courage to dream or fulfill a purpose and accomplish great aims. These dreams are also much deeper, for example, many may claim to live a life, build, or achieve something. The real truth I discovered is most dreams and purposes of people are not even totally theirs, they have been hijacked by either their family, society, government, peers. Then again people do not mind living for any cause as long as they benefit from it.

For me, answering the question, What do I live for?

I live to be amongst those who have truly succeeded in Life and Death. [Eternal Success]

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Ayomide Ojo's avatar

Damn. A lengthy but worthy read! Thank you, for sharing your perspective

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