I often wondered why the richest place on earth has been oddly referred to as the ‘grave yard’ until my adolescent age when I realized the countless number of people who have died with unfulfilled dreams and ambitions. I have watched how ideas have been truncated at conception and the tendency to give up so easily without trying. I have watched how people have ridden the waves of optimism and given up at the slightest indication of failure.

 
Indeed, some of the world’s greatest inventions and breakthroughs have been thought out but never converted into substance. Today, millions of Nigerians who have no business working for someone else are employees living from pay-check to pay-check.

The twin fears of the unknown and failure clearly discourages people from taking a leap of faith and moving to the next level required to ensure they positively fulfill their destinies. I sometimes wonder why we have assumed we cannot step up to do ‘great exploits’ as the Bible suggests. 

The author’s experience is not too farfetched. Many of us have led lives that have nothing to do with God’s divine plan for us. Only yesterday, I followed the story of a Nigerian with a PhD now in full time professional photography. I also know of a medical doctor who later became the first certified financial analyst from Nigeria. A friend of mine recently said ‘she was tired of living in other peoples’ shadows’. Their stories are clearly different but with similar objective. They realized the need to re-discover and re-live their lives in order to find fulfillment and satisfaction.

We cannot delay any longer. We, the Joshua generation in Nigeria must rise to the occasion. Quoting from a poem I wrote about eight years ago, ‘You are not a child of circumstances; you are here to make an impression; to leave your footprints on the sands of history. The mind is indeed a picture of your thoughts. Indeed, the sojourn has just begun’

As we begin this journey into our individual destinies, I hope we will look back in some years’ time and agree we moved in the right direction and took bold and inspiring, yet unconventional steps to fulfilling our destiny. 

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