Friday Morning or true to say Friday dawn, the waking call came from UN Wygon Blazez (Our Chairman). And he wanted me to give a talk on our regular meeting which came off the following Saturday.
The proposed topic was 'FACTS OF LIFE'. I guess we know Life itself is a
fact, come to think of the Facts of Fact. Well who was I to deny a
duty, I did my best to gather ten facts which correlated with our deeds
as a society of young men.
After a rather successful meeting,the
chance was given for questions and our dear Chaplain John Ampah
suggested that I post the whole talk here on our facebook page for the
benefits of the absentees. So if you are reading this here, it is
courtesy John.
1.It hurts to love someone and not be loved
back, but it is most painful to love someone and never find the courage
to let the person know your feelings.
You are not wrong to be
thinking about the love that exists between a man and a woman, however
it is the contrary here. Am talking about the love for our fellow
brothers. It is a pity that society has taught us to only love the
opposite sex but I tell you that, I have since 2006 enjoyed true love
not from my lady friends but a male one. And It is an undeniable fact of
Life that Love shown a brother births better rewards.
2. The
Best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never
say a word and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation
you've ever had.
In our noble fraternity, everyone is a friend but
I live to confess that there is a friend indeed and a friend in need. A
friend in need is a friend indeed. (NB: 'indeed' is ambiguous, and has
been used interchangeably) That is the friend who will visit you in
times of sorrowful challenges and will sit by you without verbalizing a
word, yet you feel the love his presence brings.
3. The people that need you need in Life are the ones that need you in theirs.
Must you keep moving to a house you are not welcome just because you
feel good in there, do you want to know what they say no sooner than you
had left? "Doesn't he has a house,nkwasiasem". Yes they call you Kwasia
because they need you not in their lives, take time, get to know the
people that care and like you as you are, get closer to them regardless
of their status and with them you will find the secrets of happiness.
4. When Life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show Life that you have a hundred reasons to smile.
In Integrity, most members are high school / technical school leavers
and some are still home for whatever reason I deem worth the stay. It is
a very challenging period to see some of your mates climbing the
educational ladder whiles you sit at the same level. Well, let me in my
own experience tell you that, it is far good or better you are there.
Life is giving you a tear to cry but give life a smile to laugh because
he who climbs late falls not like early, you will learn from the
mistakes of hasty climbers. Mind you hasty climbers make a sudden fall.
Never a teardrop, never a worried face and never your jaw in your palm,
keep your head straight and up, smile and live whiles you beat Life at
the game.
5. Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts them too.
Teasing has come to be a part of guys and so it is an attachable part
of our association. However teasing can be very expensive and can break
the unity and brotherly love that bonds us together. Therefore let us be
advised that, before we pass what is suppose to be a comic comment, let
us first put ourselves in the shoes of the person the comment goes to,
if it hurts us then it hurts the person too, hence silence should be the
remedy.
The remaining five will come later, am running out of online time
Monday 13 January 2014
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