Encourage Yourself

Life and the challenges it bring can be so demanding

So much that life becomes colorless.

With happiness lost, one sees no reason to forge ahead and living become meaningless.

Withdrawal from loved ones, friends and acquaintance happens next.

Seeking the easy way out, suicide comes first as baseless thought

Till one gets to the point termed “over the edge” then

Suicide presents itself as the only viable option available

Friends

It is easy for us to look at ourselves and say “I cannot kill myself”

Believe me, what one can endure, will get one overboard

We all have different level of resilience

When one can experience heartbreak and move ahead like nothing happened

Another can carry the scar for a lifetime

Yet someone else might become suicidal

We cannot afford to look at this ugly trend creeping into our system and say

“What’s my biz with someone who intends to end it all”?

Believe me if this trend is not nipped in the bud it will one day become a national tragedy

Remember that pilot who was depressed yet given a plane to fly

He decided to end his life with all the passengers aboard

What if the man who decided to jump into the lagoon was a driver?

What if he decides to plunge a fully loaded bus into the lagoon?

I believe that it is time for us to be our brother’s keeper

We cannot continue to turn deaf ears to the plot of others

Yes the country is hard but believe me not everyone is feeling the bite on same level

I know people who bought new cars this year

Some have building project worth millions yet

Others have relocated to the village just cos they couldn’t pay their rent

Open your eyes to the suffering of others

You will not understand how blessed you are eating your eba and soup without meat

Till you meet someone who is soaking garri ijebu without sugar

The story is told of a man who prepared eba he intend to eat in a shared kitchen

And when he went to get his pot of soup someone stole the eba

After much investigation someone asked him to check his neighbors’ house

Upon getting there, he saw the family chewing the eba with ordinary water

He went back to his room, brought his soup and handed it over to them

In case you are going through a situation and you feel your world is coming to an end

Please, please and please reach out to someone

Suicide is never an easy way out

If what is been preached in all religions of the world is true

Suicide will only compound your situation

Eternity is infinite; your current age is only an insignificant fraction of eternity

Do not isolate yourself

Believe it or not

The fellow looking at you with smiles might be getting it worse

Most Nigerians are just packaging themselves

If God cares so much about the strands on your hair

So much that he numbered them

Then your life is important to him

Whatever you do please

Encourage yourself

Reach out to someone today