16/07/2020
HOW MY FATHER MENTORED ME AND CHANGED MY LIFE PERSPECTIVE...
Listen Son, your antagonist will increase at every seconds of your progress.
Sometimes ago my father walked through the compound and asked me to walk with him.
He went to the mango tree at the backyard and requested I plug a riped fruit from the tree.
I looked carefully and replied; Sir, I can't see any ripe one here. He stared at me for few seconds, this time, my heartbeat increased.
I adjusted my breath for another few seconds and I said again, Sir, I can't find any riped MANGO.
Beautiful, he said, with a confident tone. Then he continued, nobody will know you when you are not ripe.
Nobody will attack you when your glory is not shinning.
At that stage, you are like the unripe fruit; ignored,
deserted,
overlooked because your fruit is not nutritional yet...
Son, here is your first lesson...
Do not fight to be recognized, seen or noticed, rather work on your fruit to be riped.
It is the nature of human to ignore people that are not productive.
Come with me, this time, he took me to another tree (Coconut), full with riped fruits...
Look around and plug me two fruits. I look critically at the coconut tree, it was tall and uneasy to get, so I carefully took a big stick and hit it from a far, it fell to the ground so loud, then I gave the two fruits to him.
He then said;
Here is it Son, the more ripe you become, the more enemies you attract just like the coconut tree.
It is the nature of human to come for you because you are ripe. They attack you just like you attacked the coconut tree.
Don't be moved, it is your right to fulfill destiny no matter the attack on you...
Keep growing...
You are growing for two purpose.
One, as a shade for those that are helpless to hide &
Two, as a fruit for those that are hungry to eat from...
You see that coconut tree, no matter how many you plug, It keeps producing more coconuts.
It is because it produces fruits that makes it relevant in my compound, if n
