I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. We humans have a way of trashing the things we already have because of the things that we do not have yet, forgetting how we struggled, how much we prayed, and how badly we wanted those things that we now have. The truth is that those things we now have that we no longer have regard for were one time our prayer point and were one time our goal, but now we have them and we don't give them the treatment and value they deserve. I think for humans, once they get that thing, the value of that thing drops, or how they used to see it changes automatically.
Yes, we are insatiable, and we will always want more, but I think we can always want more without disregarding that which was a need and all that we needed at that time. There are many graduates like me out there who, at one point in their lives, all they wanted, like all their prayers, was just for them to get to graduate, and now that we have graduated and things are not going as planned and we want the storm to settle, we are starting to feel like we should not have even gone to school in the first place. Maybe the time spent in school should have been spent serving a boss in the Onitsha market so that at the end of the day he would settle you and then you would become a big businessman, more than our experience in school, and now we are left to start and settle by ourselves with little or no support.
Instead of being grateful for the fact that we graduated at least, there are many who wanted to actually graduate like us, but financial constraints prevented them from even starting the journey, and then there are those who we started with, but at one level they had to drop out for one reason or the other, and then there are those that started with us as well, but at one level they died, either by accident, ill health, or somewhere they were even poisoned, while there are us that ate anywhere and everywhere but were still able to reach the finish line in good health, like the entire body system working properly.
Then we ignore that because of how life turned out for us after school or maybe because the life we imagined after school is not the life we are actually living currently. The picture I had for life after school might be different from what I am seeing now, but I have come to realize that it is not enough to just trash how much God and those who supported me have done for me; it is enough to be very grateful for because I know how long the journey took, but they did not back down.
There is a lot to be grateful for. God gave me supportive parents; that is something a lot of people lack. I have a happy family; that is also something to be grateful for. The country's economy is nothing to write home about, but somehow we have not starved. God has been making provisions. There are many who, despite the country's economy, cannot stay without spending a huge amount of money on drugs and medication; it is not so for me and mine, and that is something to be grateful for. But I, who knew how difficult it was to start school in a country like mine and then see it through to the end, think being able to graduate is one of the things I am most grateful for currently.
