BE ALL YOU CAN

  Be All You Can Be Now!!!

The first time I went to Lagos, I was 17. After my senior school education, I went to stay awhile with my mum's younger sister. The sun was already setting, the road very busy, as I was sent to go get some drugs from a nearby pharmacy just across the road, 5miles away from the house. Kingsley my cousin had already started having early symptoms of his asthma, and his drugs were finished in the house. Be quick Obii, Kingsley your brother have to take his drugs... my Aunty's voice echoed as I walked through the door.

I have always been disciplined, never one lazy or lackadaisical to work and errands, No... not one so expensive and of this magnitude, not one that involves life and death, No... not this one. I got to the main, busy, crazy road, on which the pharmacy lies across, and so were my village people with me. I tried crossing at first, immediately I saw a fast incoming vehicle in quick succession, I ran back. I tried crossing again, this time it was a heavy truck, coming from both lanes of the road, I ran back as quick as I could. I was getting sweaty, worried, tensed, and scared knowing that I had already spent 10mins, and a soul was waiting on me to live.

I knew I had to do something, but my mind was greatly shaking in fear like a palm fruit leaf under a storm... the fear that I would be crushed if I tried crossing. I was still wanting to cross the busy road when I heard a quick, fierce, ringing cry and shout..." Obinna!!! what are you doing... Kingsley is dead".

My breath cut, my eyes became hazy, my mouth tasting sour, my soul weak, and my legs shaking... It was then it dawned on me that I should have tried, or maybe tried more. The fear that caged my mind suddenly left, and I understood and knew that I could have crossed the road, and the vehicles that conspired my fear would have waited. It suddenly dawned on me that it was better I even died trying, than living with the feeling that I could have done more but never had the guts to.

Life doesn't give you what you desire and want... it gives you only what you have the guts to ask and take.

What are you waiting for???

What are you waiting for to try and be who you want to be?

That business you want to go into, that book you want to write, the fitness and exercises you know you need, what are you waiting for to get into it?

When you wait for the right time to come, truth me, you will wait for the rest of your life.

Don't let the fear of failing crumble your dreams and bury your soul within.

Break through those feelings of fear and you will see they never were real.

The time is now.

Be all you can be now.

IT'S NOW OR NEVER!!!

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