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When I was growing up as a kid attending a private primary school two towns away from where my parents reside, I used to go with my neighbours who attended the same primary school to their family friend’s house. We were all to stay there until it was time for the afternoon classes some few houses away from the family friend’s house and would return to the place after school to wait for our parents.
I always saw something quiet significant it made less meaning to me when I used to see it everyday of the week. It is now ten (10) years since I stopped seeing it but the meaning is beginning to take a shape in my heart. There used to a man who lived in the third house away from where we were to wait for our parents. I don’t know if he does any other thing for a living but some people come to him to be trained as good boxers.
We, the kids then, only got excited when one of the intending champions who has come for training has been seriously battered by the opponent who is also an intending champion. Sometimes the boxers were never allowed to fight one another but were told to fight a punching bag.
The punching bag they were to fight was very heavy and it was designed to boomerang after every punch of the new boxer. The new trainees were always battered after each exercise either by their fellow boxers who had been there for a while or by the punching bag. The only thing that is interesting to me in the whole show now is that the one who was battered the day before would still show up the following day!
They were trained to fight on so long as their hands can move. Even if they were dying they were supposed to fight on. What I now understand is that the real fighters fight with their spirit and not with their bodies. That is why some them get tired during the fight and they only try to avoid the punches of the opponent but the truth is that they are actually gathering momentum in their spirits and they move when they have enough energy to strike the deadly but winning punch.
Too many people take life like the ostrich instead of the boxer. I have found out that the ostrich would deep its head into the sand to avoid problems but that is what every intelligent fool does. You have only succeeded in keeping your face from the problem but it does not mean the problem is solved. The ostrich has forgotten that its anus would shoot out when its head is in the sand so it becomes easier for any attack to be launched against it.
Worse still, a number of people, larger than you can imagine, would not hide themselves from their problems but would celebrate their problems. How do they do it? They tell everybody their problems so that the people listening to them can reason out their pains and they get a sorry in return.
Let me announce to you that the more apologies you get the less awards you see in your life. The more apologies you get the less "thumbs up" you will ever deserve.
Life is too interesting, even with the pains, to be lived by calling a pity-party on yourself. The people who attend your pity-party are always good enough to come to your aid but it is unknown to you that they are hiding you from the glorious days. Don’t live the track because you fell down because you would definitely return to it if you were carrying the trophies. Every fall on the track is a step closer to the trophy!
Remember that the boxers would return to the same training ground where they were battered because nobody gets the belt through a pity-party. You don’t need anybody to pity you. If you call for a pity-party then you are calling for you burial from the days of the trophies. Get out of the pity-party if you are in it. Your business does not need sympathizers to grow. You don’t need sympathizers to get a first class. The truth is that succeeding people barely have people around them when they need people but they always have too many people around when they become successful and that is why they can also easily fall out of success if they are not careful. You don’t need this pity-party in any endeavour you have chosen if you must be the "HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION."
Fola Daniel
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