The Best Advice I Received so Far
One very thing I am ever grateful for in my life is the gift of good friends, true riches is not just the accumulation of wealth alone, it is also having good people around.
A good advice can turn the most foolish man on Earth into a wise man, as humans whether we like it or not there are days that we will definitely find ourselves in the dark, confused and lacking what to do. No matter how sufficient you are there will be days when you will feel as if everything has been totally wiped out from you. In those days, standing alone is very risky.
The kind of counsel a person gets continually determines how the person's life will be. I have a reason for saying that. I know we have the will power to decided whether to work with an advice that we get from people or not. But I want us to also understand that words are powerful and consist of great compelling energy. If you keep listening to a word for a long period of time, you are most likely to get affected by that word.
For instance, if the only kind of counsel you get is a bad one, you may be able to kick against it for a while but with time if you don't cut away from that person, you have high chances of practicing what the person is offering, similarly, if all we get is good counsel, we may be bad but those good words have the ability to tune our conscience towards doing good or becoming better. Words are beyond what we see them as.
A foolish man with good counselors can do wise and marvelous things, a strong man with evil counselors can be a coward. A weakling can become strong and conquer mountains if he receives the right kind of counsel.
I use to feel as if it is only those advanced in age that can give good advice but I was so wrong about that because I have found my self in situations where I felt like life was oozing out of my body and a young man like myself came and gave me hope again. Maturity is from within, it has nothing to do with our outward appearance.
Early this year, my life was something else. Things became very difficult for me and I was already giving up on everything I believed on. I even started deviating from the good way of life. During those days I was trying my best to avoid everybody that is close to me. I just wanted to be left alone.
I have this friend, whom I consider as brother because we grew up together and we are still friends till date. He is my namesake, we bear thesame tribal name, Ovey. We were living in thesame house together those days while I was wallowing in darkness. A point
reached where I felt I am too bad to be around good people and so I looked for a way for us to separate. My reason was I didn't want my life style to influence him the wrong way.
He Left my place and returned home, I never knew he understood what was wrong with me. He noticed all the changes but he kept mute because he doesn't want to call my attention to it so that I won't feel as if he was against me.
After he left my place, things intensify, I became worst and this time around, I avoided him completely, no calls, no chats, nothing. But God has mysterious ways of doing things, one night , I became so depressed and I decided to talk to him because he is one of the person's that really understand what I am going through in life.
When I opened up my problems to him, he told me he was going to come over to my place the following morning because of how critical he felt the matter was and he did as promised. He came to my house and spoke to me and I was relieved.
Amongst his words he said, no matter what happens in this life don't allow, your conscience to die. He made me understand that I am not as evil as I thought I was. He asked me a funny question, do you believe that God exist? I said yes and he said you are not a bad person. He said that the consciousness of the existence of God that I have alone is a sign that I am not dead but alive.
He said the consciousness of God keeps us from doing evil, I should never reach a point in my life where I disbelief God's existence. He urged me to keep striving even if all things are going contrary, it's only going to last for a while and things will be better. He used his life as an example to give me hope.
He lost both his parents within a period of one year, life beat him left, right and cetre but he never gave up and here he is today doing good and still striving for the best. His words sank into my heart like cold water and cold every heat that was pulling me down.
My hopes came alive, I stopped beating myself so hard, I stopped painting my self black and started working for the better. I really blessed God for his life, after that day, started throwing away what I was doing that was wrong just to make me forget about my challenges gradually until I regained myself.
Some people perish because of lack of good people around them, I am certain that if my friend didn't come to my aid, I would have been in trouble by now.