By PHILLIPS OLAYANJU
“The economy is damn too bad.
Everything is cost. Na wa Oooooooooo”
This is the line I hear
everywhere every day. The line I once whined. Everything was topsy- turvy...life
was an ebb and flow...nothing seemed constant...my life was oscillating and
vacillating and guess who I blamed it on? The economy! I mean I was trying
everything to make ends meet and nothing just seemed to work right. I soon
discovered the benefit of appreciation and my life never remained the same. I
got something worth a million dollar and I’m going to give you just a little
out of my money. (Can’t spare much, the economy is bad).
It has been rightly said and
proven that a negative personality and attitude attracts negative people and in
turn, negative things. Ever woken up one morning and you feel the world’s
burden on you? You keep grumbling and complaining, muttering, enraged by your
debtors, rushing out of the house with a stone-hard face hoping to make some
money and eventually, you make nothing! How frustrating?! You see, you aren’t
just losing money; you are losing the joy given to you by the force behind the
universe.
We all know that towards the end of the year, everything including
some people’s life and finance comes to a halt. You ask me, where is the joy in
it and I’ll tell you: “The joy is the
pride of seeing another economic meltdown”. Weird huh?
Between the
beginning of the year and today, you really don’t want to know the fate of
those who looked better off than you but are nowhere to be found today. For
every situation we complain about, there’s a person complaining of something
worse and for every situation that person is complaining of there’s a worse one
and so on.
It’s left to us to either keep
complaining about our unproductive situation or to see the silver lining in
every cloud and become productive.
Note: “No matter how much you complain,
it wouldn’t change your circumstance. Rather, be grateful that you are hale
enough to turn things around.”
As we said in our last series,
your approach to problems determines the product of your effort. Someone once
said that if you can’t appreciate nature, you can’t appreciate others and if
you can’t appreciate others, you can’t appreciate yourself.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Phillips Olayanju
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