I'm sure you've heard the saying; time heals the greatest wound. Well nothing can be farther from the truth. Time heals no wound, it doesn't have curative abilities. It is what you do to the wound in the process of time that determines if the wound will heal or otherwise.
Leave a wound untreated and it starts to fester and may become a gangrene leading to amputation. But the same wound if properly treated and tended to can heal. Of course it will not heal on the spot, the healing occurs over the process of time. So get it straight, time has no magic except to make you age and grow old. What you do in time, over time and with your time is what counts.
Many people die at 25 but don't get buried till they're 85 because they stopped learning and they stopped striving to become better at age 25 or earlier. At some point in their lives they quit aspiring, though they keep adding years to their age, they did not grow any better in the areas of their lives where it mattered.
I've met 50 year old teenagers and 60 year old babies. When we start conversing I know this person is still a teenager or baby even though he or she is a father/mother or grandfather/mother. The passage of time took it effect on their physiological process but not on their mental and intellectual process because they failed to continue learning, dreaming and daring to take on something that stretches them beyond their current capacities.
Like money, time is a neuter. It is neutral, neither good nor bad. Whatever it is or seems to you is a function of how you chose to perceive of it. Time is a seed bed that yields whatever you sow into it. Sow nothing you'll reap nothing. If you decide to do sleep and do nothing over the next 12 months, time will pass of its own accord, and you'd add another year. You'd grow one year older, but you might not have grown wiser or better. Growing older is a natural process, but growing up [growing wiser and better] is something you have to provoke consciously, it doesn’t happen by accident. Whatever 2014 or the next decade or your lifetime will yield for you is what you sow and seed it with. Take my advice: sow wisely! 2014 is tinning out, how is it leaving you? I challenge you to decide to grow consciously, decide to live full and die empty. Set goals, pursue them and achieve them. Choose to live all you were born to be. Fulfill purpose maximize potential. Don't take back with you to the grave all the treasure God imbued you with.
I believe in you and I believe that Africa will never be great until you are great, Nigeria will never be great until you are great, your family and immediate community will never be great until you are great. Do greatness!
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