Do you relate?

Maybe they do it for the sake of motivation, but really, I find it funny when some affluent people talk about success and they limit the means to talent, hard work and determination, discounting opportunity and luck from the formula.

Here on social media especially, even some hipster looking rich kid who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and had everything handed to him on a silver platter, or perhaps propped up to work the system can talk big about chasing dreams and how to cope with pain before gain.

Listen - if you never had to trek endless miles to school in patched up uniform and shoes and your books in a plastic bag, never had to go to bed hungry after a very tedious farm duty or sleep under a roof with countless eye-holes, my friend you don’t relate and you cannot tell me anything about pain or survival skill.

Your borrowed motivational speeches are only welcome if in the end you’re going create some form of opportunity, otherwise you and your overblown curriculum vitae can go to [insert noun]. I suggest you go to your alma-mater (Brat High School) and address the kids there.

Hear what Napoleon Bonaparte said; he said “ability is of little (or no) account without opportunity.” Someone also said “if wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire” and they’re both right.  

Now let us be frank, and you tell me, with the exception of temporary cash-flow hitches, what else do you know about pain? Sumala mbejay nga waydi sa borom!