LIFE AS IT IS

They say LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT,in other words you become what you planned and acted to be.In this case we assume that you are the input you applied in the previous you.Some one said,"There is no secret to success,you don't have to be lifted on an elevator,you have to climb the ladder of success." I am also a victim of positive Thinking and I believe that you can be anything you want as long as you are determined to pay the cost,For there is No Gain without Pain.The believers in God's Grace may think otherwise but the Good book is clear on this saying,'The wages of sin is death but the free Gift of God is eternal life through christ Jesus'.You see,God's grace is only accessed by Faith in His Son Jesus who paid the cost for all the sins of human kind.Our salvation was purchased by Jesus at a very high cost of his own painful and shameful death.Anyway that was a by-the-way.In the pursuit of a good life by all people,certain common denominators are not to be missed.All people want Freedom,independence,peace,

happiness,acceptance,Recognition,greatness and the like.
  Once I sat on the roof top and watched people from all walks of Life down the streets,everybody was minding their business,some were footing,others driving,sitting in fancy cafeterias taking their luxurious coffee cups whose cost exceeds a daily wage for people in the other class.You see God created us in the same class but while on earth we have formed ourselves in more diverse classes  even in churches where we go to meant our common creator,for those who have not very soon you will go to this church and they will introduce themselves as An English speaking Church.So what shall we say of this things?,shall we say that the Haves are more hardworking or wiser than Have Nots ? may be yes,but that can not be absolute.For everyone wants to attain something good,it is just that sometimes  what you expect is not what you get.Anybody who ever went to school had that hope of a good fancy career that would bring them to their desired destiny tagged with Happiness,Freedom,independence,Charity and a peaceful noble priced retirement.We have a Radio presenter who calls himself Jimmy Jones75,asked why he calls himself 75 he said he hopes to be happily retired at the age of 75,which is a good thing and I really liked his idea of being reminded by people about his retirement every time they called him by name.
I wish everything  was to be just as we had planned,but you see they say if your dream happens just as you planned,then it is not good enough.In other words ,Life is not a constant but a variable .Thanks to my Math teacher,I remember  her in those days saying ,"You may be given a number,say like X ,find the value of X ".Life is a variable ,we are not sure of it's true value,we just have to solve it out.If you had and still have problems with math,don't worry,unlike back then at school,here in real life you can copy because in some instances you won't have time to do corrections.So copy from other people's successes or failures.
you may have attained a college degree majoring in something just to find yourself competing with elementary and high school dropouts.

But never stress,in Africa we believe that a pen ( Education) is like a hoe,you may have a bad season on your farm but there is always something you can bring home.In life we should always learn to have the faith of a farmer.For they by faith sow even if there is no sign of the Rains with a hope that the rains,even if they may delay a bit,will come and the tiny seeds sown will bring forth fruit.
In this 21st generation we are having a lot of norms and traditions being redefined.say,men wearing Dreadlocks,women wearing tight pants I hear mbu leggings,morning clubbing ,we can as well redefine somethings in our own life,instead of 'Life is what you make it' we can have it as 'Life is what you take it' because sometimes what you want is not what you get irrespective of doing all the common methods to success.Never use someone Else's method of success as your own you could be called to be something else.
 Life is not about what you have done,but what the good Lord who gives us all good things to enjoy has done.In proverbs it is written  'A horse is prepared for the day of trouble but deliverance comes from the Lord'.A self made King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in his magnificent palace  is brought down but a poor young shepherd David from the bush is anointed king.
The Bible describes worldly achievements as 'uncertain riches of this world'.The rich fool thought he had gathered what is more than enough for him to enjoy and have a peaceful prosperous retirement when certainly his soul was required from him by the Ripper.Everything was well with Job when certainly he received reports of how he had lost his all.And what of our own generation,don't you know that our very own king of kings Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi 

  no more?

For indeed Life is what you take it,there are no self made men,you could be a Have-Not today and tomorrow find yourself in Father Abraham's bosom watching over a man once a Have who always dressed in royal purple garments now being tormented by the Giant thirst