I Tried So Hard

I Tried So Hard

“Never give up. 

It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.” 
--- Richelle E. Goodrich

A lion was trying to chase a deer, lion was trying his best and a monkey while sitting on a tree was watching all this, during running suddenly deer faced a canal in front of her, she closed her eyes and try the biggest jump of her life and she succeeded, when lion reached he think for a while and stopped and he turned back, at this moment monkey came near to lion and said you just lose by a deer, and right this moment lion replied to monkey, this victory didn't belong to deer,
It was the victory of Life,
My Need to fulfill my hunger but her Purpose was Life, that's why she succeeded, he who have great purpose will always succeeded……!! So greatness of purpose always matters……!”

---Zia

“Trying is always enough.”
---Patricia Briggs

A lot of happenings in the lives of people around the world which we hear through the media are worth picking a message from and does help to choose to live a meaningful life. Many of these stories inspires, heal ones heart and help one gain the strength to keep going, keep trying and never give up until the struggle is over.

I came across the news of a man (a Detroiter), James Robertson on daily mail, who walks 21 miles to work and back every day no matter the weather. He has been doing this for ten years after his car got broken before the universe decides to compensate him for his undying and ever-going spirit. The amazing thing about the man is that he is 56, never get late to work because his boss also said they set the attendance standard of the factory by the man, he travels for almost half of the day to and from home and work place which walking takes the huge part of his travel, works for 8 hours, have less than four hours to sleep daily on working days and his wage is not worth the stress. Three statements from this amazing man thrill me, lessons from it are really important to be applied in every one’s life to be really fulfilled in life.

The first statement is ‘I sleep a lot on weekend, yes I do, but I can’t imagine not working.’

Life requires that you work, do with all of your might all that your hands find doing when your sun is still shinning because soon or later your sun will set. You have got to keep trying and doing, nothing works more than trying and doing, whoever does not buy into this, achieve only nothing. As it is easy for anyone to keep away from trying and doing, so is the way failure, shame and curses clouds such one. Trying and doing maybe so tough and challenging for anyone but success, glory and blessings dominates such life and decorates such one. Working is living, the moment you stop trying and doing, you stop to live.

Another thing to pick from his statement which I coined in my own words is know when it is time to shut your eye because it is not designed to see all day.

Often the ideas peddled in our world is to keep running like a moving train and we forget that the sun also wish to stay shining all day because of the love people have for it but it never forgets to set for the moon to also glow so that it can come out strong the next day.

Ovid said and I quote ‘Take rest, a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop’. It is really important that you find time to rest well to regain your strength and stay energetic for the next line of actions. Sometimes in life we forget so soon while trying that we are already burning out, the only thing needed to do at times like this is to slow down and meditate on new ways to go about our lives, sometimes you need to learn new things to get yourself equipped for newer challenges and most importantly at times you need to take a break to celebrate yourself for keeping on and cool off the heat that is already stocked in your head.

I will say, work when you should work, play when you need to play, sleep when you must sleep, don’t let any area of your life suffer because even the globe never rotate 90 degrees or 270 degrees but goes 360 degrees completely.

The second statement ‘I keep a rhythm in my head; I am not saying I am a member of some church. But just before I get home, every night, I say ‘Lord, keep me safe.’’

Another interesting thing about this man is that he somehow understands he should commit his life into the hand of the Supreme Being that watches over Heaven and Earth.

At some points in our lives when everything goes according to our plans smoothly, we suddenly start to believe so much in our strength and knowledge and we forget there is an invisible and omnipotent being that orders the forces of the universe to aid whatever we do to make them materialize even many times beyond our imaginations.

The question is, is there anything in the physical that didn't first reveal itself in the spiritual? The answer is definitely NO, everything in the world manifested from the spiritual to the physical be it good or evil, our thoughts, dreams and imaginations are the medium through which the things of the spirit comes to human and when it is acted upon the world sees it and many times we marvel and say where did that come from? Oh it is absolutely out of this world.

Come o ye to thy creator and He will make your crooked way straight, your valleys shall be filled and your high mountains leveled, your dry land filled with streams of water and your unfruitful ground shall become a green pasture. Lean on Him and He will never let you down but lift you high above your enemies.

Seek God, seek His face and He will never turn His back on you because He is an ever-loving God.

The third statement ‘ it's not just the $1,700 monthly paycheck that lures me back to work each day but the very essence of being around my friendly co-workers whom i call 'family'.

The greatness of your purpose always keeps you going no matter the confrontation, torture and hurdles that come with making it fulfilled, the greatness of your purposeful goal keeps you running in thick storms. The greatness of your purpose determines the intensity of the strength it forces out of you even when you are fainting.

You should always check your purpose for doing anything you commit yourself to and see if it’s worth it, and if it’s worth it, it’s worth giving it all.

For this man, he wants to be happy and just not ready to throw the friendship and love he gets from his co-worker which he calls ‘family’ into trash can because of the long distance between his house and workplace and the stress he goes through to get there. He believes his purpose supersedes the pains of getting to his destination, what matter most to him is getting there, every other thing is by the way. 

Stick to your purpose and stay immune to your attacks, your goal is a reality.

Hear this, after a decade of undying determination; this man became blessed by the universe. A college junior read his story and became impressed by his determination, pulled up a fundraising campaign for him and there was a windfall of blessing, he got a beautiful car, finance expert also now assembled a group of advisers to manage the ever-growing fund, which is now 17,500 times larger than his annual wage - or equivalent to eight and a half years' work. What a great reward for a man with an undying determination.

Many times in life our determination to achieve something worthwhile often attracts other beautiful things to our life, so never give up on yourself, there shall be showers of blessing when you least expected it.

Let this continue to echo in your heart, keep trying, keep doing, your reward is coming!

God Loves ♥ You

Ogundipe Clement Shola
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