Dear lovely people,
“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from
failure, loyalty, and persistence” says Colin Powell.
Judson
walked majestically into his new office, everything around him bore an aura of
success and power. He was hence a celebrated executive that has always been his
dream. With a press on a gold-plated button on his desk, his Secretary was
summoned. He rained a couple of instructions on the elegantly dressed young
lady one of which was to announce the holding of an emergency executive
briefing that morning. She was equally instructed to serve him his favorite
coffee before leaving.
After the secretary was gone,
Judson looked around his new office, smiling at every detail and enjoying the
power he now commanded, why not? his bank account was comfortable he told himself.
Then, the phone on his desk started ringing to bring him to reality, he woke
up.
“So
it was all a dream again?” Judson asked himself annoyingly. He was seated
on his wheelbarrow at the main entrance into the central market that drizzling
morning with no work to do. Judson was dreaming of a life he was not sure to
lead. At 26, he had been dismissed from five secondary schools on counts of gross
misconduct and appalling grades. His parents, friends and family failed woefully
to talk Judson out of his affinity for blind-rocking. At 36 today, he helps
carry goods in his ricketier wheelbarrow for customers at the central market. Even
before sleeping off into a dream that morning, his morals where down especially
after carrying the goods of a former classmate who now works at a prestigious
bank in town.
I tell you, the only way never to
find yourself in Judson’s shoes is to invest your energy, intellect, and all
into hard work in the right direction. Judson today works quite hard
transporting goods in his wheelbarrow but at what price? For what objectives? And
what is his vision? There is none and
will never be a free lunch.
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