Waiting...

We all have to wait for something at every point in time in life... you wait to get into school, you wait to get out; you wait for your turn on a queue; a bus; a life partner; a child; a job, a promotion...

What is important is, you learn to wait for and on God. Waiting, everybody does...but persevering... few people do.

Sometimes, it seems slow...

Sometimes, it seems God is not there...

Sometimes, it seems He has travelled and at other times, it seems He is just busy with the next person...

At the time of waiting, a virtue is born... that virtue is called PATIENCE. It doesn't get delivered easily but when it does, things change.

Not only do things change; EVERYTHING changes and while waiting, you see clearly and learn that in life;


1)You CANNOT accomplish EVERYTHING! Some things get accomplished while others are better, when left half done.

2)With God, ALL things are possible while with man, only some things are possible.

3)Whatever you think you can't 'wait' to have could end up killing you.

4)While waiting, you get to notice other things aroud you; your focus shifts and the available becomes even better than the preferable.


What do you do then?


Well, you wait. We can never stop waiting but we can stop waiting impatiently. At the appointed time, it will come. How do I know?

A couple waited for a baby for fifteen years...What do they call that?

A woman got married after praying for forty years...Wow!

Another woman got an American visa after ten years...


Patience is golden and he who finds it finds a good thing... Never stop waiting paitently. Don't worry, at the appointed time, it will get to you.

NIGERIA, THEN... AND NOW

Then....
Mum would say...'Lara switch off the refridgerator, I want it to defrost just a bit, the ice-block is a rock.'


Now

... in the middle of the night she comes into my room and says...'Lara, I just thought to ask again; did you switch on the fridge? I would do anything for chilled water'








Then...

A new couple would say...'We're visiting Jos, Yankari games Reserve Bauchi,and the whole of the North for our honeymoon.


Now...
'North ke? Abeg let us do our honeymoon in our house jare! It is better to see trouble and die in our home than to die in plane crash while travelling or be blown apart by Boko Haram in the North or Abducted on the way while travelling.








Then...

It was 'Children are leaders of tomorrow.'


Now...

'Children, abeg, chop wetin you fit chop today o! Nobody knows tomorrow!'








Then...
Mum would say... 'Read your books, so you will become either a Doctor, Lawyer or Engineer.



Now

'Education is not everything my dear, whatever your hands find to do, please do it. Have you considered music, dancing or football? Ebi o ni pa e, omo mi.'







Then...
Teachers were the most respected people. They were heroes.



Now...

They have been reduced to the level of begging to be paid their salaries





Then...
A man of seventy was too 'young' to die.



Now...

obituary would say...'He lived a full life, died at 57.'







Then...

Children would come out in crime- free streets and play 'Suwe'


Now...

Children are locked up in homes to play video games that does nothing to improve their intellect






Then...

Mum would call me around ten at night and say 'Lara, please get me a bottle of drink now, I really feel like having one now.'




Now...

'Please, lock the gates by eight p.m; I hope you have bought everything you need, nobody is going outside this house again.'







... WHICH WAY NIGERIA?