Date Posted: 12/4/2012 3:47:03 PM
Posted By: Geekeijoe Membership Level: Silver Total Points: 453
Opportunities are favorable chances and openings offered by circumstances. However these opportunities are not always favorable to our destined site of view and no matter how sweet some may taste and pleasing they may seem; one step with such will see an abrupt fall in not only our present but also the future that lies ahead of us. A friend of mine gave me a story about his life opportunities; he told me that once he was a child with both parents but living in a separated marriage, the cause he knew not. The feeling in his childhood was extremely awful as his friends ridiculed his family relationship status. Thinking and hoping for the best in future, he grew to learn that a change was inevitably impossible in such a family as his and so he grew to cope with the state of being. When he graduated from high school his polygamous dad was announced bankrupt, a situation that was even more worse than ever for him in the sense that he was in the danger of abandoning his higher education due to lack of finances, apparently his mother was just a house wife with no job to help her demands leave alone her son’s needs. It took my friend some time to adjust to the reality and it was then that he started doing skilled labor jobs to keep his needs addressed and more over help up his family in setting up a daily survival.Working in grocery stores, construction sites, MacDonald’s, Tim Holtons etc was his usual month’s occupation. A normalcy that felt thrilling to him and that made him smile often. It was not until the doors of hell seemed open and those of heavens filled with fire when life took away his most cherished being ever. It was after he turned 20years of age, two years down the line after he graduated from high school and failed to proceed due to financial mishaps in his family. His mother died while undergoing a birth process. It was initially a serene opportunity for him to get a brother or a sister when the painful opposite took even her mother along. Life then seemed meaningless as he termed himself an orphan. The funeral preparation largely depended on him and so looking back and blaming circumstances was fruitless. It was in the burial ceremony when his life was again twisted but this time to the better when an old friend of his mum, one with whom his mum shared top secrets and affection in decades past gone; the lady whose communication with the late died as one of them lost the others’ contacts. Her name was Grace, a tall and slim woman who learned of her old friend’s death through the multimedia. She offered to take David with her and get him a job at her growing business. David’s life then took a sweet turn as he got a job as a receptionist a position better in terms and pay than what previously he had. It was the same lady who after a couple of months approached David with an ironical request. She asked. “David, would you like joining the university and proceeding with your education? I will pay for everything and all you have to devote is your time and effort to study.” Four years later I was in David’s graduation ceremony, this time not from high school but from university and now he was not only ‘David’ but ‘David the mechanical engineer’.Remember this was a story that my friend was trying to narrate and show me how his life was filled with opportunities. Some that made him smile, laugh and happy and others that made him cry, give up and wish himself dead. These ‘ups’ and ‘downs’ of life made him a man of integrity and perseverance, a man not like others, a goal getter and not just a dreamer as he claimed. “As a matter of fact I had never thought of life this way” I said as I got to understand life opportunities in a broader way here. The manhood that was manifested in what David ran to is what has seen a today’s Chief mechanical engineer in one of the leading food processing factory in the globe. Basically, I was not surprised by the tranquility that my friend had when his father later died as I then had known the person in him. Who would have thought that a child from a separated marriage, a boy from a poor family, a boy whose mother died when he was still young would have become of him the respected and honored man he is today.There are no roots of poverty, being poor today does not mean that you will live in it forever with your descendants being cursed by the status quo. Likewise, the rich are not destined to live in riches for ever with their descendants as benefactors. Life is full of opportunities and all that matters is how you take them, how serene you get over difficulties and hardships and how you add up something to what you already have. If David could not have started working in freelance he could not have been able to effectively arrange his mum’s funeral, he would not then have given Grace a chance to give him what his mother was not capable of giving, he could not have proceeded with his education and most of all have become the adhered engineer he is today. It may sound effusive to conclude that if it was not of his most loved mother’s death he could not have become of his present but in reality it is. It follows that life has many opportunities to give, the best of them are not as freely given, life has to take in a sacrifice inevitably from us in order to reveal the whole strength it carries in each and every opportunity it offers. It truly is difficult to interpret and understand some of these painful chances life gives us but it’s only a matter of time for the whole to give reason and meaning to our destiny.
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