Human beings often limit their prowess in life but this i potentials are often forced out by hardship.
The peculiarity of Nigerians is our "first class survival instinct". A friend of mine would always says NIGERIANS CAN ADAPT TO ANY SITUATION. The above claim was complemented by a scenario in a polytechnic.
The recent increase in the price of kerosene has rendered many students STOVELESS and FIREWOODFUL or CHARCOALFUL. The students at a villa, identified as "Prominent Villa" has concurred to the trend thereby opting for charcoal pot because it is cost effective and health wise.
At inception of this trend, many of them still collect the remaining oil from their stoves to start the fire but at latter stages the slogan changed to "boys have to survive"
On this fateful day, they all woke up to discover that there were little charcoal to sustain their cooking talkless of starting the 🔥 fire.
The central character was Jeremiah a.k.a. omo abule sowo. Initially, if he would start the fire, he would use countless papers, nylons,match sticks and kerosene to start the fire but this fateful was a "no money " day for him. But his own amazement, he succeeded in starting the fire with a "single" match stick, a "small piece" of nylon and within a few minutes, he has a great furnace before him.
Lesson: If he was told he can start a charcoal fire with few materials, he would replied, "No, that's impossible. He would doubt his prowess to achieve such feat. Many people are in the same shoe as the guy, we have no motivating factor, we doubt our potentials to make exploit. But whenever we are faced with hardship, we do the unthinkable to survive our present condition. A sage once said "The best in us are forced out by unfavorable condition"
This story raised a question that goes thus: Which is better, learning the Hard way or the Easy way?
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