Utilize every Positive Opportunities that comes your Way

By : Hamzat Ameenat Aderayo

Ajala a boy of 21 years of age born in a family of three, his father is a renowned engineer while his mum is a secondary school principal. He’s so opportune to have his basic, secondary and tertiary education in private schools hence; he is born with silver spoon. The major advice of his parents on him is to behave rational, cultured and obedient despite all resources at his disposal although, AJ popularly called is a truant, obstinate and full of arrogance in all his deeds thus, he never had it at the back of his mind that he should seize his opportunity; the current situation which never last longer thereby wasting a lot of opportunities at this tender stage of his life.

Unfortunately, when Ajala clocked 20, his father died after a long sickness of cancer;  money is gone, resources spent prior his father’s death. However, no more money to flex, cater for needs and pitifully living from hand to mouth. All these which precipitated the demise of greater opportunities of Ajala thus, the usual adage “Opportunity comes but once”.

The greatest opportunity given to mankind is LIFE itself. A body that doesn’t possess a soul is nothing but a log of wood. It is generally believed that we were created by GOD for a purpose and that is, to worship and adore Him. He also gave us the chance to make use of that golden opportunity to realize our set goals and to fulfill our dreams but the question that arises is, “why are we misusing this great opportunity?”.

You will be wondering what I meant by the above question, why are we not making the best use to the Golden opportunity?. Some people just see life as a mere story which will start and end one day by achieving perhaps inability to achieve such tangible goals. They engaged in deviant and illicit endeavors thereby commit their soul to the devil.

 However, youths especially are one of those people in that category. Some of us do not even know the major reason of our existence then we make lots of life changing mistakes which always have greater effects on us and our families. Here comes the vandal of destiny, when you get to a stage that you feel your own ideas needs to be your own principles and you know those ideas aren’t good enough for you to scale through the horrors of life but because of self desire and stone hardheartedness, you want to rule your world and you are a step closer to ruining your life.

Therefore, having ideas about how you want to live your life is not a bad idea but the most important thing to do is to consult, seek and heed to positive advise from those you know has smelt the hell of life, people that has killed more days on earth and have seen more than you so that square pegs are inserted in square holes in the plans and journey of your life. Seize every positive opportunity.