Tomorrow 4 Sale! E-Book

Oladele Madamidola

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Buying and selling take place every day, everywhere and all the time – destinies are sold and bought after rigorous negotiations in the market places of the world. Wondering why and how people could descend so low as to buy and sell destinies, the author of this motivational piece for teenagers and parents realised that both buyers and sellers are simply unconscious actors; the market, a stage. However, buyers are fewer than sellers in the market places of destiny – more and more people sell their tomorrow in the uncertainty of TODAY. This book is devoted to giving reasons tomorrow must be sold...!

Leseprobe

Oladele Madamidola

Tomorrow 4 Sale!

BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Dedication

To love: the unseen force that inks my pen:

Love for humanity…

Love for writing for humanity.

To the young students of today:

The parents of tomorrow…

To my many friends and numerous foes:

The combined forces that brought me here…

To all those I met along the way

For coming and going out of my life…

To all those who cared to stay

For not giving up when I was down…

To family:

For loving, caring and helping me…

Author’s Preface

Buying and selling take place every day, everywhere and all the time – destinies are sold and bought after rigorous negotiations in the market places of the world. Wondering why and how people could descend so low as to buy and sell destinies, I realised that both buyers and sellers are simply unconscious actors; the market, a stage. However, buyers are fewer than sellers in the market places of destiny – more and more people sell their tomorrow in the uncertainty of TODAY.

I have come to realise over my few years of existence that success is a choice; only those who make it stand a chance. However, it might be disappointing to know that whoever chooses to succeed in life must as a matter of necessity let go of TOMORROW. This is, probably, because the present cannot be fully realised and actualised living with one’s tomorrow today. Is that not where we often miss it as we outgrow one age group and move into another? No one tells us not to live too close to our dreams; not to peep behind our heads; not to sleep with our eyes open. Yet, we learn these things and more from our interactions with the world around, above and below us. Above all, no one ever tells us not to live with our tomorrow today.

This book is, therefore, borne out of a cumulative thoughts and efforts to bridge the gap between fantasies and realities – an effort to help teenagers, especially those in High Schools, and emerging youths face their fears and lead a meaningful and well-defined life. Parents are not in any way left out; they are moulders of destinies – moulders are readers.

Fear…

The future is bright

If you do it right;

Fear may come around

And throw you to the ground.

You may be beaten

But won’t be eaten;

When you feel threatened

You mustn’t be frightened.

Fear will come like a bully

To tear and break you fully;

Rise up when you fall

And be stronger than a wall.

FEAR

... Your biggest fear is your greatest enemy...

It comes and grips your heart; takes your breath away and makes you lose your cool. It stays around – around your world – and makes you look like a fool. It would not leave except you chase; except you rage – until you change. FEAR is a negative transformer; chase it or it changes you.

If life were to suggest an acronym for FEAR, it might just be:

F – False

E – Evidence

A – Appearing

R – Real

By virtue of that, FEAR becomes False Evidence that Appears Real. This simply means that fear is an idea that exists in abstraction and, therefore, not as dreadful as we often think – it is just the coming alive (manifestation) of the repressed thoughts, feelings, aspirations, desires, and so on, locked in the “unconscious” on the “conscious” person, as the psychoanalysts might explain it. It could however, be false or real depending on a person’s emotion. For better understanding of the acronyms assigned to FEAR above, I would endeavour to explain its meaning accordingly.

FALSE

False, in actual fact, is a descriptive word for anything that is not in accordance with the truth – It is artificial, fake; could seem real at times but not actually so. However, it might interest you to know that humanity determines what is true or false – reality is a relative concept.

EVIDENCE

The word Evidence is the eventual information that indicates whether a particular thing is useful to an examined effect or not. This sheds more light on the subject matter, FEAR. It is obvious as read in FALSE above that whatever is not real has no eminent evidence.

APPEARING

The present continuous verb “Appearing” means coming into existence. You do not need to tell a blind man that what is not real when the sun shines cannot be real when it becomes dark at night. There are only two sides to a coin; it is either head or tail, as it can never be the head and the tail at the same time. Therefore, whatever is not in existence never exists in the physical and tangible world until we bring it to life.

REAL

The adjective real can be explained in so many ways but only a few would be needed. When something actually exists or happens, it is real; when it is genuine and not artificial or counterfeit, it is also real. Whatever is worthy of a proper description and can be perceived by the human senses – sense of sight, hearing, smell, feeling and touch – could be real. Finally, whatever has no imaginary part is indeed real in all sense of reasoning.

Having briefly laid the foundation for the construction of this book, it is time we begin to lay the bricks, layer by layer, step by step until the building is erected and inhabited.

Let’s get started!