26/07/2017
DISCOURAGEMENT
People will discourage you! You know people in your life who no matter how good of a day you are having, they will bring you down or no matter how bad of a day you're having they will bring you even lower. Think of the three in your life, guess what? They are not your biggest discourager. YOU ARE! _(speaker unknown)
What people say about you does NOT make up who you are, what YOU think and the choices YOU make does. When I was down and unable to go to the University of Pretoria , because the course I had applied for was full to capacity and I wasn't notified until late December, I was home,a Close Relative came and asked a question I will never forget: she asked " Where is that God of yours and your fathers? “ and then she added “You spend so much time in that church of yours saying you're helping people, but look at you now" . Then she laid an offer, for a job that was way below any job I had ever considered doing. I was silenced but I smiled and said I'll get back to her and we parted ways.
I luckily knew that the God I was serving is the and of the universe, so my main thought was “He would let whatever plan He had for me come to pass” my was unshaken but I was . I also took that situation to be one that pushes me to prove to her that the God I am serving is the one true God in heaven the Father of .
For some reason even though I was desperate I couldn't bring myself to accept her offer, I felt like it would be telling her that has failed me. A few months later, after some strange and sudden change, I was on a plane from to with a fully funded scholarship in my hands. I cancelled my application with , which had already reserved my space for the following academic year, I secured a place at 's number one University (Middle East Technical University ) and enrolled for my Bsc in Mathematics degree there. To cut a long story short, two years later when I went to visit home, I found that that very same person was now the one singing the most praises about who had now surprisingly become . :5
The point I am trying to make is that; challenges are a part of life but , people will discourage you, but don't be keep your thoughts full of self motivation, turn every challenge and setback to a reason to push harder. Remember that "Not everyone who smiles at you and offers advice has your best interests at heart.
By Pat Mdluli (Founder and CEO of ) (Co-Founder/Owner of Turkish Quality Wear