Row Your Boat Of Life

Dear lovely people,

In my childhood days, only the wealthy in my community could afford nursery school for their children but we were happy to start primary school (infancy 1) at five and I remember one of our most popular and common song…

Row, row, row your boat,

Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is but a dream.

I could not have imagined then, how subtle that song that kept us so happy and fulfilled was. Of course as you row, row, row your boat of life down the stream of life, only you can determine its direction. You are either rowing your boat of life to achievements and happiness or damnation depending on how you set out and where you set your sights.

Your boat will be rowing gently down the stream when it’s primordially clear to you that you have to fight to reach your dream and that you have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

You will move gently and merrily down the steam of life not because it’s that easy but much more because you are determined to make it irrespective of the challenges.

Remember to take along Theodore Roosevelt’s words “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

Life might just be a dream but Langston Hughes admonishes “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”