Monday 28 March 2016

How to become broke...

If because of laziness, you cannot even clean your stuff, you keep repeating that [so us] cycle of complaining about everything being wrong, but doing nothing to make anything right, if you keep throwing away stuff that you could've salvaged to reuse, you keep outsourcing chores that you could've done yourself and save money, if you cannot be enterprising because your exploited source of livelihood is somewhere overseas, or because your trust fund is too substantial to be drained, if you can forgo breakfast for weed, or you abandon your needs for some designer apparel, you'll end up broke.

If you think the beginning and end of your success is in one thing and that thing only, like going abroad, then don't delay taking action, because if you keep putting a brake on your hustle just so you can run behind some pretended helper whose words don't match his actions, or some celebrity or politician, helping them to make their personal dreams at the expense of yours, no matter the weight of your own dream, you'll end up sorry, because it's never about the formalness of the dream, it's the substance therein that counts, and perhaps the faculty of choice to pursue it.

Around here, this philosophy is never too popular, because folks believe that ability is nothing without opportunity and I agree. But the truth is, opportunities don't fall from the atmosphere above; it takes will and creativity. If however, your environment is not conducive for creativity, that's another matter, but even at that, the onus is yours to change the root cause of whatever stumbling block there is.

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